This handbook for businesses explains the benefits and incentives provided by the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) and shows how businesses can take advantage of them. An introduction summarizes the two pieces of legislation. Section 1 furnishes the specifics on the TJTC and explains how businesses can…

This volume is part of a series designed to promote stronger ties between the educational resources in the Northeast and Midwest and the economic development process. It focuses on the question that public officials face in addressing structural dislocation and long-term unemployment: whether to continue only to support those unemployed or to…

This booklet offers suggestions to the handicapped individual for the use of volunteer experience to expand personal employment opportunities. Examples are offered of handicapped persons who have used volunteering to create an employment opportunity. Suggestions follow for approaching the volunteer market, finding and making contact with a…

This practical aid is designed to help individuals and organizations working at the local level on employment and economic issues to build effective public-private partnerships and develop stronger links between economic development and employment and training activities. It is intended for practitioners at the policy and program levels in public…

Designed specifically for private industry councils (PICs), this guide introduces the subject of economic development and job creation and highlights the impact PICs can make through carefully chosen involvement in local economic development efforts. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to economic development: What it is; how it is related to…

The Career Assessment and Placement Center is a school-to-adult-life transition program which provides vocational and independent living services to individuals with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities. A set of five manuals was prepared to assist in developing services similar to those provided by the Center. The "Operations"…

This manual is designed to give placement and other school personnel detailed suggestions related to the formation and implementation of a school-based job placement service. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction which discusses goals for organizing and implementing job placement services, functions of a job placement service, and essential…

This manual is a list of verified vocational education activities that relate to job development, job placement, and job follow-up/follow-through services. The activities incorporate information on employability skill development, occupations and labor market, job search training needed for the disadvantaged, student needs assessment, and student…

This book offers interested organizations suggestions, tips, and ideas to stimulate thinking for developing summer jobs programs in the community. It is a collection of workable summer youth jobs programs that are drawn from the over 100 locations in which National Alliance of Business (NAB) regional services offices provided technical assistance…

This guide offers a practical approach for operating summer youth employment programs that involves cooperation among private businesses and local organizations. A timetable provides a month-by-month schedule. Seven sections discuss management responsibilities. Program Planning covers scope, goals, and coordination. Program Management addresses…

This document consists of three closely related reports, dealing with "State Governments", "Regional Councils", and "Local Econcomic Development Agencies", respectively, together with a fourth document, a preceding overview. These documents draw from results of a project to identify successful approaches to coordinating economic development and…

This guide, based on experiences in five Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) programs, is designed to show teachers, school administrators, job training and placement personnel and others how the experiential learning techniques of Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) are being successfully adapted to meet the needs of…

Job outlook information forecasts the growth and decline of jobs in the near future--usually for a 10-year period. The purpose of this information is to help individuals understand where future employment opportunities may occur, but the individual must also consider his/her skills and interests and the level of education needed to accomplish…

This combination procedures manual and annotated bibliography is intended to assist faculty and staff at community colleges in North Carolina in developing centralized job placement and development services. The first section describes the project to establish centralized employment services at Guilford Technical Community College during which the…

This handbook was produced by the California Vocational Education Resource System (VERS) to assist administrators in planning, implementing, and monitoring career-vocational education services for students with special needs (disabled, disadvantaged, or limited English proficient) in regular vocational education classrooms. The guide is organized…