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Manufacturing a Way to Career Readiness: How Industry Measures Student Readiness
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Flory, Michael – CNA Corporation, 2017
More clarity on career readiness and how to measure it would help educators prepare students for adult life and inform industry professionals who hire young adults. This report is a step in providing that information by exploring how a high-wage, high-growth industry--advanced manufacturing--determines the readiness and additional training needs…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Manufacturing Industry, Measures (Individuals), Job Applicants
"It's Considered a Second Class Thing." The Differences in Status between Traditional and Newly Established Higher Education Credentials
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Isopahkala-Bouret, Ulpukka – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Although the system of educational credentials differs in many important ways from country to country, all western countries have experienced a similar trend in the form of an increasing number of graduate degrees. Graduate degrees have also taken on a bewildering range of forms and content. As a consequence, not all graduate degrees have the same…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Credentials, Masters Degrees, Graduate Students
A Delphi Study of Entry-Level Workplace Skills, Competencies, and Proof-of-Achievement Products.
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Wilhelm, William J. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1999
A Delphi panel of 24 hiring managers, human resource specialists, business owners, and cooperative educators ranked entry-level skills and acceptable proofs of proficiency. Highest-rated skills involved interpersonal relationships. Traditional proofs (resumes, transcripts, references, testing) remained important. Nontraditional proofs…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Credentials, Delphi Technique, Employer Attitudes