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Yoder, Nick; Atwell, Matthew N.; Godek, Dana; Dusenbury, Linda; Bridgeland, John M.; Weissberg, Roger – Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, 2020
Understanding the developmental and contextual nature of social and emotional competencies has always been a key concern of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), including the ways students and adults use core social and emotional competencies in preparation for and within their work-life. The current labor market…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Job Skills, Career Readiness, Labor Market
Sweet, Richard – European Training Foundation, 2018
This handbook, first published in 2014, aims at helping policy makers and social partners understand some of the ways in which learning in the workplace can be encouraged and how its quality can be improved. It is also intended to help them understand some of the ways that such learning can be organised in a structured manner so that it benefits…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Educational Policy, Workplace Learning, Educational Quality
Price, Mark; Herzenberg, Stephen – Keystone Research Center, 2013
A landmark new study reported that upward mobility in the Keystone State since the late 1990s exceeded that in most parts of the United States. This report, focused on more recent trends, contains some bad economic news. It shows that Pennsylvania's economy has performed poorly from the perspective of typical working families since the end of…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Labor Market, Promotion (Occupational), Wages
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2009
This toolkit is designed to support you in building partnerships with the business community. It includes a series of fact sheets you can distribute to employers that discuss the value in hiring plus 50 workers. Individual sections contain footnotes. (Contains 5 web resources.)
Descriptors: Business, Outreach Programs, School Business Relationship, Employers
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McMahon, Mary; Rixon, Kylie – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2007
The present study examined the occupational aspirations and career development influences of children attending Years 6 and 7 at a sample of rural and remote primary schools in the central western region of Queensland. Data was collected by means of the "Revised Career Awareness Survey" (McMahon & Patton, 2001). Australian and New…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Labor Market, Occupational Aspiration, Foreign Countries
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Washington, DC. – 1986
This study provides legislators, educators, community organizations, training program specialists, and civil rights groups with data on the position of minorities and women in the work force. Part I considers where the jobs are in terms of designated high growth, high technology, and high loss occupations in the next decade. Chapter One discusses…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Females
Serapio, Manuel G., Jr. – 1986
This manual is intended for job developers and people working in educational, vocational, and training organizations with responsibilities for job development and placement. It is designed to help them perform their responsibilities more effectively by making them more responsive to market needs and more efficient in executing their…
Descriptors: Administration, Career Education, Employment Opportunities, Job Applicants
Melville, Keith, Ed. – 1984
Appropriate for secondary school social studies, this booklet considers the decline of certain basic industries in the United States and the unemployment which accompanies this decline. The document contains five sections. Section one, "The Blue-Collar Blues," examines the uneven nature of the current economic recovery, which has left many…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Decision Making, Economics
Sum, Andy; And Others – 1986
This publication is designed to increase the skills and knowledge of practicing human resource staff, private sector decision makers, and university students preparing for careers in the human resources field in the use of labor market and occupational information for policymaking and planning. Chapter 1 reviews human resource issues, concepts and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Appalachia, 1984
Discussions centered on circumstances faced by laid-off workers in Portsmouth, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Upper Cumberland, Tennessee, and Gary, West Virginia. These diverse Appalachian communities are prototypes of the extent of local distress imposed by the impersonal workings of the market and the absence of precedents for dealing with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Dislocated Workers, Employment Problems
Minnesota State Dept. of Economic Security, St. Paul. – 1996
This guide to Minnesota training resources for adults seeking new employment opportunities provides an overview of careers, wages, job availability, and necessary training. Occupations are described in these areas: medical careers; office professions; technical careers; art, writing, and media careers; service careers---food, hair, police;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Career Education
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1983
This report is the second to appear in a series of studies carried out by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) during the past 5 years. The first report concerned the integration of handicapped young people into ordinary schools. The present report deals with what happens…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Curriculum, Disabilities
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1992
Intended for midlife and older women in the job market, this booklet is designed to help them in the process of looking for work outside the home. It helps them assess current skills and identify potential employment barriers; teaches them how to prepare effective written materials to support the job search and how to interview successfully; and…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Educational Experience, Employment Interviews, Job Applicants
Brennan, John, Ed.; And Others – 1996
The relationship between higher education and the world of work is examined in terms of the changing structures of higher education institutions and the effect of the relationship on curricula. An international perspective is provided on the changing nature of employment and the labor market; the increasing diversification of higher education…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, College Curriculum, Comparative Education
Mitchell, Stephen M.; Jimenez, Manuel – 1998
The test for today's economy is to create a workforce development system that capitalizes on current opportunities across states, regions, and local communities. The economic environment is positive, with tight, dynamic, and global labor markets. The business need for job-ready, entry-level workers; high-skilled workers; and workers who can…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
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