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Mitchell, Anita – 1980
This paper explores the issue of establishing and evaluating objectives for local career education programs. It presents a perspective on the state of the art based on reviews of the literature. Although it is addressed principally to local program developers and managers, the paper is also aimed at state career education coordinators. After a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education
Wehman, Paul, Ed.; Hill, Janet W., Ed. – 1979
Ten papers on the vocational training and placement of severely disabled persons are presented in this monograph. The titles are as follow: "Project Employability: Toward Competitive Employment for Severely Disabled Individuals"; "Vocational Evaluation of Severely and Profoundly Retarded Clients"; "Considerations in…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Case Studies
Mattson, Robert E. – 1973
Public Service Employment slots can be developed in three ways: (1) by establishing a pool of jobs into which trainees can be placed; (2) by developing individualized slots for each trainee; (3) by combining the pool and individualized approaches. In terms of administrative and cost efficiency, there is little difference between the pool and the…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Individual Development
Houghton, Ted; Proscio, Tony – 2001
This publication describes four highly regarded workforce development programs, concentrating on how they cultivate emotional intelligence--how they prepare trainees for the cultural demands of the workplace. Section 1 describes how ACHIEVE, Cabrillo Community College, Watsonville, California (CA) teaches business dress, skills and culture in two…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Culture, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
Frazier, Heather; Cognard-Black, Jennifer – 1999
This booklet, which was developed by Ohio State University's community outreach program to meet area residents' needs for custom-tailored writing instruction, is designed for use in a workshop on writing resumes. The booklet begins with an introduction that states the following three basic guidelines for effective resume writing: (1) discovering…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Education, Community Education
Barbieri, Marty – 1991
This handbook explains how to develop, equip, and staff a Career Resource Center. Following the introductory material, 10 sections contain lists of information sources and materials under the following headings: (1) reference materials; (2) employability skills resources; (3) employability skills curriculum; (4) films and videos; (5) computer…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Counseling, Career Information Systems, Career Planning
PASSAGE, 1991
This document consists of 10 issues of a workplace and job-skills information newsletter specifically designed for adult education program practitioners and their students. A report preceding the newsletters notes that the 1990-91 newsletters were issued to 2,200 program administrators, directors, counselors, volunteers, and their students.…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Counseling
Utah State Office of Education, Salt Lake City. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1987
This guide is designed to provide vocational education, single parent/displaced homemaker program directors, and other interested persons with information to help them support, establish, and conduct programs for single parents or displaced homemakers in the nine vocational education planning regions of Utah. It includes definitions and staff…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Displaced Homemakers
Browning, Genia; Linn, Pamela – 1989
A project was designed to assist older unemployed people in London, England, with the transition to education, vocational training, and employment. The project involved the development of a local tourist guide course at Thames Polytechnic (England), the accreditation of this course, and employment of some of the participants as local tourist…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Community Education
Ammarrell, Natalie; Moore, Timothy – 1985
Inner City, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Polaroid Corporation, located in the Roxbury section of Boston. Without the use of public funding, Polaroid created this job training program 17 years ago to provide Boston's unemployed residents with entry into meaningful employment. Training occurs within the framework of an actual…
Descriptors: Dismissal (Personnel), Employment Experience, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Stenton, Bobbie; And Others – 1985
This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Guidance, Competency Based Education
Heil, Carolyn – 1981
This document, developed in Pennsylvania, contains guidelines formulated to provide local school districts and vocational/technical schools with step-by-step procedures that will assist in the development and implementation of successful job placement programs. The guide is organized in five chapters. The first chapter introduces the project,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Employment Services
Hahn, Andrew; Friedman, Barry – 1981
Two job search assistance programs for disadvantaged youth, funded under the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Project Act, were evaluated for both operation and impact. The two programs were the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Job Factory, which paid youths a stipend for doing the "job" of finding a job, while providing group activities,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Counselor Role
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, DC. – 1973
Conference participants, representing business, industry, labor, and education, formulated concrete suggestions for action in response to a set of 10 career education concepts. The handbook is a compilation of the suggestions, based on desirability, practical probability, and practical limitations of each concept. The concepts deal with exchange…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Education, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Utah State Board of Education, Salt Lake City. – 1972
The position of the Utah State Board of Education is that career education will be a major thrust of the total public education system from kindergarten through secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels, with the State Education Agency providing the leadership for development and implementation of the career education concept. Basic objectives of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
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