This guide equips students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to make effective educational and career decisions. Chapter 1 examines attitudes toward work and outlines the career choice process. A career- and life-planning checklist helps students set goals. Chapter 2 explores personal characteristics through…

Appropriate format, content, and presentation of personal resumes and job application letters in German are discussed. For the resume, this includes notes on inclusion of pertinent personal data, educational background, military service, work experience, internships or continuing education, and other job-related skills. For the letter of…

Designed for those beginning a working life or with years of experience, this book leads the user through collecting records that document work history and affirm successes. It provides a step-by-step process to help plan one's life's work, make career decisions, and develop plans for new career directions and a structure to learn career planning…

Operation of the 1989-90 Creative Employment Project, a regional transitional support center for adult single parents and displaced homemakers, resulted in increased entry rates for participants into vocational education programs. The program assisted participants in acquiring marketable skills and entering the work force. The objectives were…

This book is designed for new doctorates and junior faculty as a complete guide to the academic job search process. The volume opens with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures with pointers and information on how institutions may view and conduct hiring. It then proceeds step-by-step through the application process beginning…

This comprehensive and verified employer competency list was developed from a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This competency list contains 16 units (with or without subunits), competencies, and competency builders that identify the occupational,…

The Education in Action project is a cooperative effort between the vocational education community and the Central Kentucky Community Action Council to identify economically disadvantaged youth who need basic academic and life skill training, General Educational Development (GED) training, occupational skill training, and job hunting and retention…

Research was conducted to determine whether Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) services were being targeted to those most in need, to identify which participants got which services, and to identify associations between characteristics, services, and outcomes. Data were obtained on 5,300 youth from a random sample of 63 service delivery areas. The…

In a continuing effort to measure the quality of their Dental Hygiene program, explore the need for changes, and substantiate the program's goals for accreditation standards, a follow-up study was conducted of the 1989 Dental Hygiene program graduates from William Rainey Harper College (WRHC). A survey was mailed to all 29 associate degree…

The average number of points assigned by 15-25 reviewers to each of 13 guidance and career development videotapes is recorded in a video quality assessment matrix. Reviewers were participants in Colorado State University's 1989-90 Colorado Career Guidance Video Review Project training sessions and videotapes were rated on: (1) instructional…

Consisting of materials and strategies adapted from California's model projects for the training of career technicians, this document explains how to conduct inservice workshops for these paraprofessionals who provide services in career centers established in nearly all California secondary schools. Twelve training modules cover the following…

This collection of competency statements deals with the English-as-a-second-language (ESL) skills that vocational students should master before entering the world of work. Addressed in the individual sections of the volume are the following topics: specific occupational terminology, safety language, on-the-job language, job-seeking language,…

This teacher's manual is one volume of a six volume curriculum for the secondary level, designed to provide a systematic, group-oriented approach to decision-making in areas crucial to adolescent development: work, drug (substance) use and abuse, sexuality and social relationships, people and government, and juvenile law. The decisions about work…

This book reviews the present job market and projects the changes in the economy and work lives through the year 2000. It examines the difficulties in finding a job in a constantly changing market and stresses the necessity of learning job-search skills for all adults. The book is organized in 12 chapters grouped in three parts. Part 1 describes…

The project described in this document was conducted in Virginia during the 1986-87 academic year to develop a model inservice program that would assist school personnel in providing vocational guidance for secondary school students with limited English proficiency. The project directors collected materials, searched the relevant professional…