This learning module is one of a series that teaches the competencies of "Job Search Skills," part of the "Work Skills" package--a set of competency-based instructional materials written for low-level readers that prepares students with specific job search and job keeping skills. ("Work Skills" is part of the "Connections" package, which…

This curriculum guide was developed at Atlantic Community College as part of a program to facilitate the training of persons with limited English-speaking ability for jobs, especially jobs in Atlantic City casinos. The project aimed to teach job skills and life coping skills along with English. The curriculum guide contains 10 units. Approximately…

Three separate reports are bound together in this volume. Each examines one area of the transition from school to work in order to identify how elements of the process differ for blacks and women compared to whites and white males, and how these elements might better meet the needs of blacks and women. The three papers, and their authors, are as…

This curriculum guide was developed in British Columbia for four purposes: (1) to define a contemporary perspective on employment preparation education; (2) to present an array of learning topics, with sample tasks and resources for instruction; (3) to present a flexible structure for course design; and (4) to provide administrators, coordinators,…

The purpose of this instructional "pac" is to provide individuals with the skills and information needed when seeking employment. The curriculum, designed for ten sessions, is intended to be taught by volunteers from the local community, business, industry and the civil service. Different activities are used in the class sessions and include…

In fall 1979, a study was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to determine the characteristics, attitudes, and activities of former and present students in the Legal Technology Program. All students enrolled in a selected Legal Technology course between fall 1974 and fall 1979 were included in the survey. The questionnaire solicited…

This is a participant's guide of a community-based guidance program designed to help high school graduates become aware of themselves and of educational and employment opportunities and to develop the strength to carry out the life changes they choose to make. It consists of four sections. In section 1, entitled "Becoming Aware," a…

Part of a series devoted to identifying and evaluating strategies which vocational education administrators and instructors can use at the secondary student, teacher, or administrator level to eliminate sex stereotyping and sex bias in vocational education programs, this workbook provides information and activities that require students to gather…

This report examines the existing literature concerning how young people enter the labor market and specifies what important questions may be analyzed by existing but untapped data and what issues require further research. In reviewing the extent of current knowledge, its scope is found to be limited to three general areas: the role is known of…

This bibliography, containing approximately 600 abstracts of career education materials, was developed for adult education administrators, planners, and practitioners, working in a variety of settings, such as adult basic education programs, high school equivalency programs, on-the-job training and retraining programs, and career counseling…

Designed by classroom teachers to provide for the infusion of career education into existing curriculum, this notebook contains student worksheets in career-oriented areas which can be used with varying learning styles and ability groups. These worksheets for grades 7 and 8 are arranged under four major areas: self-awareness, language arts, career…

A study was conducted to assess competencies for employability--preparing for, getting, keeping, and advancing in a job; where, in the public's opinion, such competencies should be taught; and where they are actually learned. National surveys of samples of the general adult public, public school teachers, high school seniors, and employers were…

Career Education for Non-Traditional Students (CENTS) was designed to address the career education needs of the adult population through the services of the community college. During the first year of funding (1975-76), the project carried out an extensive needs assessment and, based on this information, designed and developed a series of…

This manual for parents and teachers provides an appropriate teaching curriculum for use with trainable mentally retarded adults, age eighteen to twenty-one years. It provides first a course outline based on five knowledge areas: health, nutrition, home maintenance, basic consumerism, and job readiness. Other contents include tests, objectives,…

This pamphlet was prepared to help all those involved in the job-seeking, placement, and recruiting processes. Candidates cannot be provided with a "sure" technique for finding positions, but it is hoped that this guide may help make the search for a position more efficient and more effective. The guide is divided into the following chapters: (1)…