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Placement Services in Today's Economy. [and] Job Development Programs. [and] Service-Learning: A New Priority for Career Centers.
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Carter, Jennifer K.; Franta, Pamela – Journal of Career Development, 1994
Carter reviews changes in the workplace and in campus recruitment procedures that affect student job placement and describes the University of Missouri's job development program (cooperative education, internships, part-time work, work study, service learning, and volunteering). Franta expands on service learning's effect on career development.…
Descriptors: Career Centers, Higher Education, Job Development, Job Placement
Statement of Dr. Gene Bottoms, Executive Director, American Vocational Association, before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Poverty and Migratory Labor.
Bottoms, Gene – 1980
While strongly supporting the passage of the Youth Act of 1980 (S-2385), the American Vocational Association (AVA) contends that improvements are needed in the bill in order to effect optimal linkages between employment and education agencies toward solving the youth unemployment problem. Specific changes would (1) further the potential of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Articulating with Industry: The Role of Vocational Education in Economic Development.
Bushnell, David S. – 1980
The United States Department of Education and the American Vocational Association have undertaken a study to define the role of vocational training in job development. The literature and conversations with people involved in job development programs have shown that regional economic growth, including increases in employment, depends on five key…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Economic Development
Employer Involvement: A Study of Public and Private Sector Linkages to Youth Programs. Occasional Paper #2.
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Johnson, Steven D. – 1980
The data presented in this report provide insight into employer involvement at 29 Exemplary In-School Demonstration Projects. Twenty of these programs actively sought work experiences for their youth participants, and an additional six programs contained work experience components that did not necessitate employer identification/participation. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Employer Attitudes
Skills Training for School Leavers: Some Alternative Approaches. Current Issues Brief No. 2.
Fraser, Doug – 1983
In the face of escalating youth unemployment, some new approaches are needed for training out-of-school youth in Australia. The current system of apprenticeship has become outmoded because many of the skilled trades that the system prepares young people for will soon be non-existent. One approach to this problem has been implementation of…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Youth Employment and Neighborhood Economic Development: Case Studies and Recommendations.
Engbretson, William E.; Levine, Eugene A. – 1980
The product of a study of urban Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs involving youths aged 16-22 that would result in real or potential job creation and community economic development, this report consists of 24 case studies and a series of recommendations pertaining to the development of similar programs in Illinois.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Change Strategies