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Parks-Yancy, Rochelle; Cooley, Delonia – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
What are first-generation college students' (FGCS) perspectives of employment screening methods? The authors investigate which methods FGCS believe are likely to cause an employer to extend a job offer and which methods yield the best pool of job applicants. Survey data were collected from undergraduate business majors. They were analyzed using…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Employment, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys
Hora, Matthew T. – Liberal Education, 2018
Soon after the Great Recession of 2008 hit this manufacturing stalwart of the upper Midwest, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker began proclaiming that the skills gap--the idea that plenty of well-paying jobs existed, but the educational system was failing to provide employers with skilled workers--was the primary cause of high unemployment and a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Skills, Education Work Relationship, Achievement Gap
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Hirudayaraj, Malar; McLean, Gary N. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the experiences of first-generation college graduates in the USA, as they transitioned from higher education into employment in the private sector. First-generation college graduates are from families in which neither parent had a bachelor's degree. Design/methodology/approach: This paper used…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, College Graduates, Phenomenology, Education Work Relationship
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Fuller, Edward J.; Pendola, Andrew; LeMay, Marie – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2018
Since the 1970s, there has been keen interest in examining gender representation in leadership positions across various areas of employment, including K-12 education. Indeed, there have been long-standing concerns about the percentage of women principals. Few studies, however, have examined the percentages of women principals at different…
Descriptors: Principals, Women Administrators, Females, Public Schools
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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr.; Hall, Stephanie M. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: Charter schools are commonly discussed as being more effective at matching student and family interests with school mission, ensuring family choice of educational products and improving education quality and the efficiency of resource use as a result of the competitive dynamics they are assumed to generate between themselves…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Educational Strategies, Qualitative Research
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Weiland, Kathryn Lynn; Guzman, Amilcar; O'Meara, KerryAnn – About Campus, 2013
Kathryn Lynn Weiland, Amilcar Guzman, and KerryAnn O'Meara explore historical and contemporary student protest movements at three academic institutions and provide suggestions to educators on how to support students (and their learning) through their protest activities. (Contains 17 notes.)
Descriptors: Activism, Advocacy, Colleges, Educational History
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Varga, Erika; Szira, Zoltán; Bárdos, Kinga Ilona; Hajós, László – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2016
Our paper is aimed at examining what principal business competencies (can) enhance the success and competitiveness of employees according to the employers and we also wish to explore what personality traits have a decisive effect on the decision-making mechanism in taking on new staff. At present employers can make selection from a lot of fresh…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employers, Personality Traits, Personnel Selection
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Sezgin-Nartgün, Senay; Ekinci, Serkan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study aimed to identify administrators' views related to the assessment of school principals' reassignment in educational organizations. The study utilized qualitative research design and the study group composed of 8 school administrators selected via simple sampling who were employed in the Bolu central district in 2014-2015 academic year.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, School Administration
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Crook, Brittani; Pastorek, Angie – Communication Teacher, 2015
Managing one's online identity, with a focus on constructing a "professional" identity, is of paramount importance for college students (Back et al., 2010; Cheney & Ashcraft, 2007; Metzger, Flanagin, & Medders, 2010). This is because employers often search for potential candidates online before they choose to interview them…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Employment Interviews
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Tran, Henry – Management in Education, 2015
Education human resources (HR) professionals have often been neglected in education research. This study seeks to better understand their role in the American school industry, by first examining how districts conceptualize the position of HR professionals and then exploring how the professionals themselves understand their role in school business.…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Role, School Personnel, Elementary Schools
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Perry, Chad – Australian Universities' Review, 2015
Some sociopathic personality traits in managers can derail business organisations even though the leaders have been carefully selected and considered "high flyers". Three of those traits are narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. These traits are "socially-aversive" because the sociopaths have an ingrained disregard for…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, College Faculty, Administrator Characteristics
Fitzgerald, Mary; Sabatino, Anthony – National Catholic Educational Association, 2014
The fundamental elements of successful leadership succession in any organization are recognizing the inevitability of leadership change and the necessity of a plan for leadership succession. This book provides a rationale and planning guideline for board chairs, superintendents, and superiors of religious communities to use when the need arises to…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Educators, Instructional Leadership, Administrative Change
Tawa, Kayla – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2021
The U.S. Department of Education required each state to submit a reopening plan outlining how they were using and planned on using Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) conducted an analysis of 37 state plans to better understand if and how schools were prioritizing their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Health
Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Berdie, Lisa; Grant, David; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2021
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, progressively more complete data have shed light on the tremendous variation in districts' approaches to schooling. Some districts have provided fully remote learning since the outset of the pandemic, some have mostly provided in-person learning, and others have fallen somewhere in between. In this report,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Urban Differences, School Districts
Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2018
This report provides a summary of findings from an online survey on behalf of the Association of American Colleges and Universities among employers at companies that have at least 25 employees and report that 25% or more of their new hires hold either an associate's degree from a two-year college or a bachelor's degree from a four-year college.…
Descriptors: General Education, Business, Administrator Attitudes, Personnel Selection
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