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Segall, Annette L. – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1998
Discusses networking as it relates to finding a job. Looks at traditional networking, why people do not network, and new approaches to networking. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Information Networks, Job Search Methods
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Rudney, Robert S.; Morris, Thomas W., III – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1998
A three-day workshop designed for career counselors assists them in understanding the perspective of work candidates with disabilities and helping to resolve perceptual differences that may inhibit the candidates' job search. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Disabilities, Job Search Methods
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Drier, Harry N. – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1997
Discusses the benefits of career portfolios and stresses their importance to success in today's job market. Suggests approaching job search as a sales campaign. Offers a checklist of materials and information that should be in the portfolio. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Kimeldorf, Martin – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1997
Explains the benefits of career portfolios in an uncertain job market. Suggests how a portfolio can assist in career development and offers items to consider including in a professional portfolio: documentation of education and training, evidence of work performance, and examples of skills with data, people, and things. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Career Development, Job Search Methods
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Bloch, Deborah Perlmutter – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1987
Examines sources of knowledge about career information components and deals with how that information can be used in the job search process. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adults, Career Planning, Job Search Methods, Occupational Information
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Smith, Catherine – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1997
A career portfolio is organized evidence of work readiness and specific job skills and can be focused to show the skills that employers want. It can make a case that one is prepared for the next stage of a career. (JOW)
Descriptors: Career Development, Employer Attitudes, Employment Potential, Job Search Methods
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Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 2002
Includes "Writing Effective Resumes" (Kursmark); "Writing Cover Letters with Credibility" (Davis); "Career Portfolios" (Miller); "Writing a Top-Flight Vitae" (Orlando); "Converting a Curriculum Vitae to a Resume" (Katz, Morahan); "Special Reports" (Chapman); "Every Job Searcher Needs an e-Resume" (Dixson); "Military Value" (Burns); "Key Words"…
Descriptors: Career Development, Internet, Job Search Methods, Letters (Correspondence)
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Horvath, Clara, Ed.; And Others – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1995
This special issue includes reviews of 32 books on the following topics: management, human resources, and organizational development; career counseling, guidance, and assessment; job search; resumes; careers in specific fields; careers for special populations; career transitions; and finding balance. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Job Search Methods, Occupational Information
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Sommerstein, Judith C.; And Others – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1994
Includes "Introduction" (Sommerstein); "Understanding the Older Worker: Physical and Emotional Factors" (Myers); "Changing Work Environment" (Dennis); "Expectations versus Reality" (James); "Late Life Addiction Response and the Role of Career Planning" (Britton); "Case Study of a…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning
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Lemke, James M.; And Others – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1995
Includes "Introduction" (Lemke); "Career Sidestepping" (Prescott); "Temporary Work Life" (Farrugia); "Electronic Recruiter" (Lemke); "Aerospace Network" (Hoffner); "Multimedia: The Future of Adult Learning" (Golub); and "Teleworking: Commuting on the Information Highway" (Petrie). (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Career Development, Career Planning
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Kimeldorf, Martin; And Others – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1989
Seven chapters in this special issue include "The Work/Leisure Connection" (McDaniels); "Changing Relations between Work and Leisure" (Godbey); "Wellness in the Leisure-Work Relationship" (McDowell); "Concept of Work: Updating a Point of View" (Hoyt); "A Working Future?" (Watts); "Beyond Career...Avoiding the Postretirement Blues" (Jackson); and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Educational Change, Employment