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Keshf, Zehra; Khanum, Saeeda – SAGE Open, 2021
Career guidance and counseling (CGC) is vital for smooth career development. Pakistan is a developing country having scarce CGC services; CGC is an emerging field in the country. CGC needs of undergraduates and the services available to them have not been explored extensively through research. This study explored it through 18 semi-structured…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Counseling Services, Undergraduate Students
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Mason, Claire M.; Chen, Haohui; Evans, David; Walker, Gavin – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how skills taxonomies can be used in combination with machine learning to integrate diverse online datasets and reveal skills gaps. The purpose of this study is then to show how the skills gaps revealed by the integrated datasets can be used to achieve better labour market alignment, keep educational…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Papakota, Aikaterini – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Promoting the use of new technologies in the career counselling process, the Career Services Office of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has developed an easy-to-use career counselling guide containing multimedia applications. The purpose of this career guide, called "Career Counseling@Career Office of Aristotle University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Innovation
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Weldon, Ward; And Others – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1980
The PACE Employment Program brings together potential employers and employees in the Cook County Jail (Chicago). Inmate-students and employers participate in a variety of exercises related to the development and strengthening of personal and interpersonal skills. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Correctional Rehabilitation, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Services
Clark, Andrew K. – Canadian Counsellor, 1980
Describes a career entry program for adolescents entering the work force. The 12-step procedure is organized in four phases: preliminary; resume; search; and interview. A flowchart of career entry strategy and a career data worksheet are included. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment Interviews
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Wegmann, Robert G. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1979
Job finding is a learnable skill. Many programs emphasizing job search methods and interviewing techniques show a high rate of success in equipping the unemployed with the tools to find work quickly and efficiently. (JAC)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Job Applicants
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This counselor's guide is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. The main purpose of this is to help counselors work with women who are entering paid work after spending…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselors, Employed Women, Employment Qualifications
Heck, Edward J.; O'Neil, James M. – 1980
This manual, designed for students who wish to optimize their chances of presenting themselves in a favorable way to potential employers, is written in a style that tries to avoid being overly prescriptive to increase the probability that college students will read and use the information. The purpose of this training manual is to provide students…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, College Students, Employment Interviews, Employment Qualifications
Smith, Caryl K.; And Others – 1982
This monograph is a revision of "Counseling Women for Nontraditional Careers" (Smith, Smith, and Stroup, 1977). This update reflects changes in societal attitudes toward combined work and family roles for women and toward women entering nontraditional occupations. After reviewing the current employment situation for women, five hypotheses are…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Coping
Miles, Johnnie H., Ed.; Clouse, James, Ed. – 1981
This manual is designed to provide information and structural exercises for teachers who assist adults in career advising and career development. The materials, which can be shared with students individually or in small groups, are based on needs of adult students identified from the literature and from local needs assessment surveys. Topics…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Career Counseling
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Freeman, John G.; Hutchinson, Nancy L. – Guidance & Counselling, 1993
Low-achieving students were taught to complete a resume and improved their ability to complete an application form to a level comparable to average-achieving peers through a group counseling program. Components of the program and examination of an intervention using program materials are presented. Educational implications and plans for future…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Career Counseling, Foreign Countries, Group Instruction
Brion-Meisels, Steven; And Others – 1982
This teacher's manual is one volume of a six volume curriculum for the secondary level, designed to provide a systematic, group-oriented approach to decision-making in areas crucial to adolescent development: work, drug (substance) use and abuse, sexuality and social relationships, people and government, and juvenile law. The decisions about work…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Career Awareness, Career Counseling
Hahn, Andrew; Lerman, Robert – 1983
This report presents representative findings from the Youth Employment and Demonstration Project Act's (YEDPA) experiments and evaluations since 1977, focusing largely on the programs' impacts on participants. The report begins with a review of YEDPA-sponsored research on the nature, causes, and consequences of youth unemployment. Chapter 2 deals…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Brown, Dale S. – 2000
This document is a guide to career planning and finding a job for high school and college students and graduates with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and dyslexia. The guide, which is written from the perspective of an individual with firsthand experience with a learning disability, explains how individuals can find the best…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies