Shorthand reporting is an interesting, well-paid career with excellent job opportunities. It requires: good knowledge of English, persistence or drive, high general intelligence, good manual dexterity, ability to work under pressure, maturity, courteous manner, previous work experience, and a college degree. NSRA (National Shorthand Reporters…

Advocated is a training program to prepare qualified prisoners soon to be eligible for parole for employment in the field of therapeutic recreation. (GW)

This conceptual paper uses the author's observations and experiences, along with the relevant literature in the field to argue critically for the introduction of entrepreneurial studies in senior secondary schools (S S S) in Ghana. The argument is cast within the framework of career socialization theory, which proposes that the decision to adopt a…

The manufacturing sector is the second largest industry in California (after retail), employing over two million persons (including the self employed) and paying more than $86 billion in wages and salaries. There is concern, however, that California's manufacturing sector is on the decline and that companies are moving elsewhere. This report…

The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program (JOBS) is intended to enhance welfare recipients' employability through education, training, and job placement activities, and provision of Medicaid benefits and child care subsidies. The JOBS Observational Study compared outcomes findings to those from the New Chance Observational Study to…

The barriers that poor fathers face in paying child support and how existing programs assist them were studied and contrasted to the barriers faced by poor custodial mothers using data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). Efforts to serve these fathers through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families welfare-to-work grants, and…

This paper reports on a study that suggests that the combination of counseling and prescreening may reduce the vocational training dropout rate to a greater extent than prescreening alone. (Author)

Increased skills enable clerical workers to take advantage of job opportunities in both the human service agencies and the private sector. A model program instituted by McGraw-Hill is described as one training program which assists anti-poverty agencies. Motivational counseling reduces the drop-out rate. The article includes an outline of a format…

Preparing students for occupations of the 70s requires cooperation among all levels of education, government and industry. (HS)

Article describes results of a study at Northeastern University on the effects of programs for experienced business managers. (Author/MM)

Charts illustrate the concept of managers training their own subordinates by a Do-It-Yourself system" used successfully by the author. (Editor/SP)

This article contends that where meaningful employment is coupled with education, that retention and successful course completion are much higher. (Editor)