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Boyer, MaryAngel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Training programs that combine learning English with career and vocational skills are highly desired to prepare many displaced workers that are English speakers of other languages (ESOL). Globalization has caused jobs to be exported and brought to this country, people with needed skills that do not have full command of the English language. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Vocational Education, Employment Potential
Blessington, Robert – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1989
Worker dislocation is a major problem in Wisconsin. Services needed include provision of coping mechanisms, job search methods, and retraining. A partnership between the state and the Wisconsin American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations was created to provide these services and referrals, as well as preventive training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Job Search Methods, Labor Force Development
Wood, Jeffery – Adult Education (London), 1987
The author describes Adult Preparation Training, a short-term course sponsored by the Manpower Services Commission. The course is designed to help unemployed people find their way into satisfying employment. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods
Munns, Roger; Furnborough, Peter – Adult Education (London), 1986
The authors describe a retraining scheme designed especially for ethnic minorities, whose problems include gaps in basic education and a lack of awareness of opportunities. (Author/CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Dislocated Workers, Employment Opportunities
McDonald, Valerie – 1992
This package contains materials that deal with issues of unemployment and labor adjustment for use in classes in English as a Second Language. The materials are designed to give teachers some ideas of how to raise issues pertaining to unemployment, self-assessment, and retraining. The general approach provides a framework for students to talk…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Dislocated Workers, English (Second Language), Instructional Materials
Imel, Susan – 1993
In the past, worker displacement resulting from structural changes in the economy remained confined to industrial occupations such as manufacturing. The recent trends toward corporate restructuring, global competition, and military downsizing have created new groups of dislocated workers, including upper and middle management and military…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Education, Dislocated Workers
Merrill, Fred L. – 1987
This document is designed to help mature persons find the "right" professional, managerial, or technical jobs. Section 1 introduces the materials. Section 2 shows job seekers how to write a general statement that defines the nature of the position desired and how to assess their skills, abilities, interests, work values, and personal qualities…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Career Change, Career Development
Shingleton, John D.; Anderson, James – 1993
This book, aimed at persons who choose or are forced to change jobs or careers in midlife, contains nine chapters of strategies and advice from two job placement and consulting professionals. The chapters cover the following topics: (1) the employment picture today; (2) looking for self-fulfillment in your career; (3) when to leave your old job;…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Career Planning
Imel, Susan – 1994
Even though the economy is recovering, recession and restructuring have permanently changed the way successful job searchers approach the task of finding employment. Many individuals who have been successful in their job search have adjusted the process to accommodate the recent recession and the continuing restructuring. Informal, external…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Career Information Systems, Career Planning
Gordus, Jeanne Prial; And Others – 1987
This report addresses the degree to which retraining has met the challenge of ensuring that the American work force has adequate skills to cope with the changing world of work. Chapter 1 sketches economic, social, and technological changes that help explain why the current reactive approach needs to be more active. In chapter 2, the extensiveness…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Cycles, Career Education, Corporate Education
Jaffe, Martin Elliot – 1985
Career counseling is a particularly critical need for blue collar men, displaced workers from the declining industries of manufacturing. This article uses developmental theory based on the model of adult development of Daniel Levinson (1978), "Seasons of a Man's Life," to discuss the difficulty of blue collar men in attaining developmental…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Blue Collar Occupations
Burton, Tim – 1993
This packet is intended to provide support for those facing job layoff or who have recently been laid off. Its aim is to provide a basic framework for decision making, together with relevant information, countering the disorientation that job loss often leaves in its wake. Notes for trainers offer suggestions for use of the pack. An introduction…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Coping, Dislocated Workers
Hollenbeck, Kevin; Bennici, Frank – 1988
A study collected data about Title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) services to clients and factors that affected the outcomes from these services. A random sample of 1,347 individuals who had received services was surveyed via telephone. These individuals were dislocated workers who had terminated from a subgrantee's program during…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Dislocated Workers, Employment Patterns
Naylor, Michele – 1989
Worker displacement is more closely related to structural features associated with firms than to the characteristics of the individuals who lost their jobs. Despite economic growth, large numbers of displaced workers continue to experience difficulty in making labor market adjustments. Programs to retrain and reemploy displaced workers exist at…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Clark, Marilyn – 1984
Five local collaborative efforts in several Northwest states addressed the problems created by worker dislocation in unique ways. Each partnership involved educational agencies and other key actors such as employers, organized labor, and government agencies. When the Department of Labor awarded a dislocated worker retraining demonstration grant to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
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