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Direct linkHerbert, Ian P.; Rothwell, Andrew T.; Glover, Jane L.; Lambert, Stephanie A. – Accounting Education, 2021
The paper raises concerns about entry-level positions within large organisations as corporate accounting tasks are re-engineered, automated and relocated. Reduced opportunities for accounting graduates to start their careers are but one factor in a confluence of challenges to accounting education; not least, that in England and Wales study debt is…
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Accounting, Professional Identity, Career Readiness
Peer reviewedMorgan, Jay; Brannon, Tony; Bowman, Kenneth R. – Journal of Cooperative Education, 1999
A study of 195 agriculture graduates (133 males, 103 work-experience participants) showed that completion of one or more work terms significantly increased starting salaries. Males received over $4,000 more in starting salary. Grade point average and employment history were not significant predictors of salary. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Educational Status Comparison, Entry Workers, Higher Education
Download full textYoung, Roger L.; Gould, John A., Jr. – 1974
The report surveys the occupational environment of the towns in the region within 30 to 45 minutes' commuting time of North Reading, Massachusetts. A random sample of manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, service, and to a much lesser extent finance, insurance, real estate establishments was surveyed in person or by mail. Information…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
MacAllum, Keith; Ma, Patricia – 1995
Can public policy devise effective strategies that seek to capitalize on the educational and developmental potential of private-sector entry-level jobs? What is the feasibility of using the secondary labor market in a formal way to promote skill development in youth? Can youth develop useful and transferable skills in these jobs? How can these…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Harvey, Michael W.; Cohen, Libby G. – 1989
A study was undertaken to determine whether vocational and special educators differed from employers on the entry-level employment skills and characteristics that are needed to be gainfully employed in the competitive labor force in the Lewiston-Auburn area in Maine. A questionnaire was mailed to a sample of 110 secondary-level vocational and…
Descriptors: Community Education, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Entry Workers
Peer reviewedBlustein, David L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1999
Discusses contributions of Krumboltz & Worthington, 1999; Lent, Hacket, & Brown, 1999; Savickas, 1999; Swanson & Fouad, 1999 to the application of career development theories to the school-to-work transition. Concludes with recommendation that theory-building efforts derived from the individual experience of work-bound youth should be included in…
Descriptors: Career Academies, Career Awareness, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Moore, Wayne, Ed. – NABTE Review, 2002
This issue reports research that addresses the needs and future of business education, work-based initiatives, business educators' use of the Web, and technology skills for entry-level workers. "Editorial Comment: Scholarship of the 21st Century" (Moore) provides an overview of the issue. "Quality Business Teacher Education:…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Education Teachers, Career Development, Career Education
Hamilton, Mary Agnes; Hamilton, Stephen F. – 1997
Drawn from the experiences of the Cornell Youth and Work Program, a 4-year demonstration project that adapted elements of European apprenticeship in the United States and emphasized opportunities for youth to learn at work, this guide is written for people in workplaces and schools who plan, direct, or evaluate work-based learning opportunities…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Education, Apprenticeships, Career Development
Wolf, Abraham – 1971
This is a final progress report on a two-year project that developed a basic and clerical skills training system for women from AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) households that included the establishment of a company employing former trainees. The following were important components: comprehensive education; a day-care facility;…
Descriptors: Day Care, Day Care Centers, Economically Disadvantaged, Entry Workers
Ainley, John; Fleming, Marianne – 1997
The extent and nature of Australia's school-industry programs in 1996 were examined through a survey of 1,868 government and nongovernment schools and programs. It was conducted using a questionnaire similar to that which had been used in 1995. According to the 1,453 completed questionnaires (response rate 78%) by 11th and 12th grade students, 62%…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Career Education, Coordination
Choi, Jihee; Misko, Josie; Kang, Kyeong-Jong; Phan, Oanh – 2001
A study described the general and vocational education and training (VET) systems in Korea and Australia, focusing on the role of training providers and industry in the delivery of entry-level vocational education and training in both countries. The study also analyzed the nature of the linkages established between VET institutions in the two…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Comparative Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Sanders, Nicholas M. – 2002
The empirical basis for expectations that employer involvement in high school programs contributes to early employment success in today's economy was explored by using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) survey for 1992, when students were sampled in their senior year, and data for 1994, when follow-up interviews with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Change, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
