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Fry, Richard – 2003
This digest presents an analysis of the workforce participation of Latinos, emphasizing findings by generation. It describes the demographics of native-born and immigrant Latinos and compares labor market outcomes for adult, young adult, and teen workers. The digest also explores the relationship between schooling and labor market participation,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
Wegmann, Robert G. – 1983
This paper is intended to help those in a position to provide workers who are displaced by layoffs or plant shutdowns with assistance in adjusting to unemployment and finding new employment. The first section presents a summary of the transformation of the American labor market, showing the effects of economic and technological changes on the…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Coping, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Kerka, Sandra – 1997
The world of stable, long-term employment is coming to an end. Part-time, contingent, and contract workers now account for more than 35% of the U.S. work force. It has been suggested that individuals will become "portfolio workers" with "portfolio careers." Individuals will maintain portfolios of their skills, abilities, and achievements and will…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns, Employment Qualifications
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1994
Employers believe high school graduates have inadequate reading, writing, math, thinking, and communication skills. A declining number of good jobs for first-time workers can be attributed to employers' focus on retraining their remaining employees or in recruiting skilled and otherwise qualified workers who were laid off because of other…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Basic Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment Opportunities
Imel, Susan; Kerka, Sandra – 1989
Labor market information (LMI) describes the interaction between occupations and employers. Three major components make up LMI: economic or labor force information, occupational information, and demographic information. Various agencies, including federal departments and state employment security agencies, compile LMI. A guide to the information…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Guidance, Computer Networks
Tack, Martha W.; Patitu, Carol L. – 1992
This brief paper summarizes a full length report of the same title on the faculty job satisfaction of women and minorities. In light of probable faculty shortages in the coming decades and the need for increasingly diverse college faculty, institutions must make faculty positions attractive to women and minorities. Current trends, low faculty…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Patterns, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction
Herr, Edwin L.; Long, Thomas E. – 1983
This monograph, written for vocational counselors and teachers, addresses employability for youth from both career counseling and guidance and transitional education perspectives. The section on employability counseling focuses on the ingredients of employability, youth employment conditions, classes of employment and unemployment, and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counseling Techniques
Wagner, Judith O. – 1999
This brief describes how the Internet serves as a professional development tool, enabling individuals to access information on employment opportunities, workplace trends, prospective employers, and job search strategies. Websites may offer only one service or include a variety of features. Some services are available at no cost, others are fee…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Harmon, Hobart – 1998
This digest briefly describes key components for building a local school-to-work (STW) partnership and discusses the rural context for implementing such an initiative. The School-To-Work Opportunities Act of 1994 established a national framework for each state to create STW systems that are part of comprehensive education reform, are integrated…
Descriptors: Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Brookes, Michael C. T.; German, Katherine L. – 1983
Social, political, economic, and technological changes in American society that affect higher education, characteristics of faculty careers, and the concept of faculty career development are considered. It is suggested that societal changes and the colleges' attempts to secure institutional vitality have resulted in dramatic changes in faculty…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Change, Career Development, College Faculty
Kerka, Sandra – 2001
The Internet is changing the way people look for jobs, but these questions still remain: How effective is online job searching? and Are traditional methods now a waste of time? Surveys indicate only 5.5 percent of 99 million American households had done any online job hunting; a majority of 4,000 executives had job openings posted on their…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail
Imel, Susan – 1999
Although not all current jobs require basic computer skills, technological advances in society have created new jobs and changed the ways many existing jobs are performed. Clearly, workers who are proficient in technology have a greater advantage in the current workplace and the need for technologically proficient workers will only continue to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Needs, Employment Level
Imel, Susan – 1994
One result of the ambiguity surrounding future jobs is a number of myths not only about what jobs will be available and what they will be like but also about how to prepare for them. The first myth is "40 years and out," the notion that people will work continuously with one organization until retirement. The reality is that individuals need to be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, College Graduates
Moore, Kathryn M.; Amey, Marilyn J. – 1994
This publication is a brief digest of a longer monograph on compensation policies for higher education faculty and the impact of these policies on the professoriate and the higher education enterprise. An early section describes the monograph's treatment of the current financial turbulence in higher education that has caused many institutions to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration), Economic Impact, Employment Practices
Moore, Kathryn M.; Amey, Marilyn J. – 1993
This monograph takes a detailed look at higher education faculty compensation policies and the role of these policies in improving and preserving the professoriate and the higher education enterprise. A section on compensation structure examines key decision points involved in determining appropriate structures, collective bargaining agreements,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration), Economic Impact, Employment Practices
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