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Hagner, David; McGahie, Kelly; Cloutier, Heidi – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2001
Describes a model process for providing career services to individuals with severe disabilities and presents the outcomes of a 3-year demonstration project. After completing a career workshop series based at a community college followed by job search support and ongoing follow-up with employers and employees, all 40 project participants achieved…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Job Search Methods, Models, Outcomes of Education
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Tziner, Aharon; Vered, Efrat; Ophir, Limor – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the connection between personality traits (extraversion, conscientiousness, openness) and two strategies for job search: networking (family, friends, etc.) and general search (want ads, employment agencies), making use of Costa and McCrae's five-factor model of personality dimensions. The relations between the two strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, College Graduates, Unemployment
Colombo, Louis; Cantwell, Glo – 1981
The Albuquerque Office of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Administration (OCETA) contracted with the Albuquerque Urban Observatory to conduct a study of employability skills needed by OCETA participants, to identify training programs that might be available to teach these skills, and to suggest a new model for OCETA job preparation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Adults, Educational Needs
Workforce Information Council (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 emphasizes the importance of high quality, accessible, and relevant information about the labor market for making sound decisions. In order to help both workers and employers, as well as the government agencies that serve them, the Workforce Information System was created and is being improved. The action plan…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Information Systems, Delivery Systems, Employment Opportunities