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Utterback, Annie; Iguina-Colón, Gloriela; Wharton-Fields, Donna – MDRC, 2020
The COVID-19 health pandemic created an extremely stressful context for staff in workforce development programs and the participants with whom they work. "MyGoals for Employment Success" is an employment coaching program based in Baltimore, Maryland, and Houston, Texas, that combines a highly structured coaching model that emphasizes…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Crisis Management, Coaching (Performance), Career Counseling
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Herrmann, Andrew F. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2012
Failure, according to the academic canonical narrative, is anything other than a tenure-track professorship. The academic job hunt is fraught with unknowns: a time of fear, hope, and despair. This personal narrative follows the author's three-year journey from doctoral candidate, to visiting assistant professor, to the unemployment line. Using a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Job Search Methods, Personal Narratives, Depression (Psychology)
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Andrews, Deborah, Ed.; Dyrud, Marilyn A., Ed. – Business Communication Quarterly, 1997
Presents five articles dealing with teaching job search strategies: (1) "Preparing a Scannable Resume" (Carol Roever); (2) "Preparing an Online Resume" (Tim Krause); (3) "Using the World Wide Web to Teach Employment Communication" (K. Virginia Hemby); (4) "A Visual Heuristic for Promoting a Rhetorically Based Job Search" (Helen Foster); and (5)…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Employment Interviews