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Eyster, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community colleges, which are public, two-year institutions of higher education, have become a major provider of education and training that directly leads to a job in a particular occupation. To help community colleges build capacity to provide job training, the federal government has funded several grant programs over the past 15 years. Recent…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs, Job Training
Ware, Iris – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The value proposition for learning and talent development (LTD) is often challenged due to human resources' inability to demonstrate meaningful outcomes in relation to organizational needs and return-on-investment. The primary role of human resources (HR) and the learning and talent development (LTD) function is to produce meaningful outcomes to…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Organizational Objectives, Models, Outcomes of Education
Alon, Titan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper builds a model of human capital accumulation driven by increasing specialization of the workforce. Individuals increase the efficiency of time dedicated to human capital acquisition by focusing investments on narrower sets of skills. The evolution of secondary and post-secondary curricula in the United States from 1870-2000 confirms the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Specialization, Labor Force, Efficiency
Maier, Anmarie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Corporations need a skilled workforce that can quickly develop new competencies in order to master the latest demands of their work environments. Because a college degree has a shelf-life of less than two years and many skills last even less at 12 to 18 months (Meister, 1998), businesses have begun constructing their own in-house universities to…
Descriptors: Expectation, Theories, Employee Attitudes, Motivation
Woolf, Michael Neil – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Financial aid officers play a vital role in assisting prospective and current college students in enrolling and graduating from college. This study explores the competencies that financial aid officers need to be successful in their jobs. A survey of thirty competencies was distributed to 508 practicing financial aid officers in the Western United…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid Officers, Professional Development, Competence, Higher Education
Stuart, Sandra L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined participants' perceptions of the effectiveness of a new job-training program designed to enhance the authentic learning in adult learners using an electronic medical records system at a naval health clinic. This job-training program lacked data about participants' perceptions of this learning process by which to gauge its…
Descriptors: Job Training, Adult Learning, Student Attitudes, Records (Forms)
Williams, Stelfanie Sherrell – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of older adult dislocated workers who participated in community college non-credit workforce training programs. The research questions guiding the study were: (a) what are the experiences of older adult dislocated workers who attend community college non-credit workforce…
Descriptors: Adults, Dislocated Workers, Community Colleges, Noncredit Courses