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OECD Publishing, 2021
The OECD Career Readiness project makes use of quantitative evidence to identify how teenage career-related activities and attitudes are linked with better adult employment outcomes. Review of multiple national longitudinal datasets confirms that teenage experiences of the workplace through part-time working and volunteering are routinely…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Work Attitudes, Value Judgment, Adolescents
Covacevich, Catalina; Mann, Anthony; Santos, Cristina; Champaud, Jonah – OECD Publishing, 2021
The aim of the OECD Career Readiness project is to identify patterns of teenage attitudes and activities that are associated with better transitions into employment by analysing multiple national longitudinal datasets. This paper looks for further evidence of the link between teenage activities, experiences and career-related thinking and adult…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Secondary School Students, Adults
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Andrade, Andrew; Chopra, Shivangi; Nurlybayev, Bahra; Golab, Lukasz – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2018
This paper investigates the impact of entrepreneurship on cooperative job creation in a large North American post-secondary institution. The data-driven analysis is enabled by two unique datasets: a list of companies started by the institution's engineering students and faculty, and a database of the institution's cooperative education (co-op)…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Cooperative Education, Job Development, Foreign Countries
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Khampirat, Buratin; McRae, Norah – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
Cooperative and Work-integrated Education (CWIE) programs have been widely accepted as educational programs that can effectively connect what students are learning to the world of work through placements. Because a global quality standards framework could be a very valuable resource and guide to establishing, developing, and accrediting quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Work Experience Programs, Education Work Relationship
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Gallagher, Tiffany L.; Bennett, Sheila M. – International Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2013
This article offers considerations for principals and other educators as they seek to provide students with intellectual disabilities (ID) with authentic work placement experiences. Survey and interview data gathered from 20 employers, 7 paraprofessionals (job coaches), a principal, and 21 students with intellectual disabilities provide a…
Descriptors: Principals, Mental Retardation, Surveys, Interviews
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Walstad, William; Milkman, Martin I.; McCoy, James P. – Journal of Economic Education, 2008
The authors compare various characteristics of terminal master's of economics programs in Canada and the United States. As far as they know, this is the first article to present results from a survey of Canadian master's programs in economics. Using a Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, they found significant differences between the Canadian and U.S.…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Masters Programs, Differences, Comparative Analysis
Canadian Vocational Journal, 1981
Canada's Jobscan is being developed as an effective automated worker-job matching system which also has applications in the administration of unemployment insurance by assisting clients in their active job search and through the actual identification of valid alternative employment opportunities. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Job Placement, Job Search Methods
Frerichs, Eilert – School Guidance Worker, 1979
The educational system is the only set of public institutions mandated to ready society's young people for full participation in adult life, including preparation for the labor market. The following suggestions exist in Canada: career guidance and placement centers, labor studies, apprenticeship programs, and labor relations programs. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries, Job Placement
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King, Brent; Pearson, Shani; Young, Jeffrey D. – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1997
Responses from 141 of 218 cooperative education programs in Canadian universities indicated that only a small number of student placements were in unpaid or entrepreneurial positions; mandatory programs were more likely to allow unpaid and entrepreneurial co-ops; and most programs had policies and controls regarding entrepreneurship. (SK)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensation (Remuneration), Cooperative Education, Entrepreneurship
Bonner, A. L. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1974
The organization and users of the Canadian Classification and Dictionary of Occupations are described in the article, and three methods of identifying an occupation are explained. Special categories are described, and the second volume's use as an aid to career counseling and Manpower placement is then explained. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Dictionaries
Faulkner, Rosemary – 1971
Prince Edward Island NewStart tested the efficiency of an organized visiting homemaker service project involving the preparation of nine mature, unemployed or underemployed women to meet crisis situations, especially in disadvantaged homes. The 12 week training program was divided into five units--home nursing (47 hours), home economics (62…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Disadvantaged
Connor, Thomas R. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Job Development, Job Placement, Job Training
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1988
In September 1985, the Canadian government introduced the Canadian Jobs Strategy. Two features distinguish the jobs strategy program from Canada's old job development programs and programs for purchasing job training from colleges. These features are: (1) focusing of federal support for labor market adjustment on those individuals who are most in…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Terrell, Tom; Gregory, Vicki L. – Library Journal, 2001
Describes results of a survey of library schools in Canada and the United States to examine placement and salaries of graduates. Discusses types of positions hired for; gender differences; the availability of job openings; average salaries; salaries by job type; and attitudes of graduates regarding their preparation for jobs. (LRW)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Job Placement, Labor Market
Bell, D. A. – Canadian Vocational Journal, 1974
Methods of improving the quality of business and commercial training courses purchased for adults through the Canadian Department of Manpower and Immigration are suggested by the author, who claims that major changes are required in present policies to get more placements from the training dollars expended. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Vocational Education, Business Education, Educational Assessment
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