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Download full textNebraska Occupational Needs Research Coordinating Unit, Lincoln. – 1973
The sixth annual study to determine manpower needs and job opportunities in Nebraska is compiled through employer information regarding the number of persons employed, the job duties of persons employed, and the projection of future needs according to these job descriptions. Since data are presented by "Dictionary of Occupational Titles"…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Annual Reports, Clerical Occupations, Employment Opportunities
McCarron, Lawrence T. – 1985
This handbook is intended to provide administrators, vocational counselors, and teachers with a convenient reference of entry-level jobs. The handbook organizes information on over 3,000 jobs into the nine occupational clusters that have been identified by the Department of Labor in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). Jobs are organized…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Allied Health Occupations, Building Trades, Careers
Reeves, Jo Ann – 1984
This publication, one of a series of self-contained instructional materials for students in marketing and distribution, deals with home furnishings marketing. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: the field of home furnishings merchandising, beginning duties and responsibilities, competencies needed by…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration, Business Education, Business Skills
Gurwitz, Aaron – 1983
A study assessed the potential development of service sectors in different cities throughout the country and compared the results of growth in these and other sectors with respect to their effects on (1) total employment; (2) the geographic dispersion of metropolitan employment; (3) central city fiscal capacity; (4) metropolitan cyclical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Development, Employment Level, Employment Opportunities
Eddy, Peter A. – 1975
Students of foreign languages insist on seeing the evidence that foreign language skills have something to do with getting jobs in the "real world." Evidence is being ammassed which does show this to be true. Several studies have revealed that American firms are looking for qualified personnel who possess language skills. A survey was initiated at…
Descriptors: Business, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Education
Nedlands Coll. of Advanced Education (Australia). – 1980
Student skills and employment opportunities for diplomates of Nedlands College of Advanced Education, Western Australia, are surveyed. For diplomates in the fields of teaching, library media, and recreation, an oversupply exists in the labor market. It is suggested that this oversupply will continue for at least two years in the case of library…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Education Work Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential
Twining, Marilyn – 1977
This report identifies leisure career occupations, determines the occupational outlook, and develops primary core competencies as well as specialized, optional competencies for entry level employment. The main method of inquiry is described as a needs assessment based on an audit at Moraine Valley Community College, two previous studies by the…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Competency Based Education, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1967
The papers and discussion at an international seminar of manpower and labor experts are summarized by G. Bowen Thomas. An interpretative essay, "Manpower Problems of An Expanding Sector," by Solomon Barkin, is also included. The seminar was designed to fill the information gap and to stimulate investigations concerning common manpower…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Economics, Employment Level
Urban Inst., Washington, DC. – 1978
This last of a three-volume report of a study done to assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation covers the findings regarding the priorities among projects, indirect employment effects, skill imbalances, and administrative issues; and summarizes the overall findings, conclusions, and recommendations. (Volume 1,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities, Employment Problems, Employment Programs
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Focusing on small business occupations, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include barbers, cosmetologists, funeral…
Descriptors: Barbers, Business, Cosmetology, Employment Opportunities
Kaplan, Christine E. – 1984
This part of a 2-part working paper identifies and describes major occupational groups that are characteristic of high technology manufacturing and service industries as well as employment sectors that use high technology products in their provision of goods and services. The paper is based on a review of a wide range of employment projections…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Connecticut State Board of Higher Education, Hartford. – 1985
Information on job openings for college graduates in Connecticut is provided. Projected openings in the state for 1985-1990 are indicated for nine major occupational categories: clerical workers, service workers, operatives, professional/technical occupations, crafts and kindred workers, sales workers, managers/officials/proprietors, laborers, and…
Descriptors: Clerical Occupations, College Graduates, Demand Occupations, Education Work Relationship
Nicholson, Beryl – 1981
In Norway, there has been a change from net out-migration from rural areas to net in-migration since about 1970; however, this apparent change is a manifestation of changes in occupational patterns and characteristics of certain age groups. The rise in technical and professional occupations has been dramatic, and a particularly high proportion of…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Agricultural Occupations, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Choice
Penn, Roger; Holt, Richard – 2000
"Creative business services" have grown rapidly in Great Britain and are important in terms of their impact on the economy, including their contribution to international trade. They have helped and been boosted by such business changes as privatization, spread of information technology (IT), and contracting out of services. The sectors…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advertising, Business Administration, Business Education
Employment and Training Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1979
To assess the feasibility of large-scale, countercyclical public job creation, a study was initiated. Job creation program activities were examined in terms of how many activities could be undertaken; what would be their costs; and what would be their characteristics (labor-intensity, skill-mix, and political acceptability) that might contribute…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Employment Opportunities
