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Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
The changing workplace has altered workers' roles and forced them to assume primary responsibility for their own career development. Continued employment is increasingly being tied to lifelong learning and ongoing skill development. Just as workers are recognizing the need to ensure their marketability to employers, so too are employers facing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1998
Options for flexible work schedules such as job sharing, compressed work weeks, reduced hours, work at home, and flextime have provided employees with the means to realize a better balance between work and family and engage simultaneously in more than one endeavor (for example, school and work or two careers). The same options can also lead to…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Demography, Education Work Relationship
Avedon, Lisa – 1995
Many older workers in Canada today are perplexed and dismayed by the swift and dramatic changes occurring in the workplace. Plant closures, downsizings, restructuring, new technologies, international trade agreements, ecological concerns, and changing demographics have affected the Canadian workforce, particularly workers in their forties and…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Counseling, Counseling Effectiveness, Economic Change