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Direct linkCorey Moss-Pech – University of Chicago Press, 2025
Humanities majors are used to answering the question, "So, what are you going to do with that degree?" The common misconception is that students in humanities programs don't learn any useful skills for the real world. In "Major Trade-Offs," sociologist Corey Moss-Pech argues that not only do humanities majors learn real-world…
Descriptors: Humanities, Employment Potential, Majors (Students), Misconceptions
Michele A. Magliulo – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to develop a model for a career development program for entry-level student affairs (SA) women professionals based on the lived experiences of current mid-level SA professionals and senior-level SA professionals. As new women professionals pursue their careers in SA, they must navigate many barriers…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Females, Occupational Aspiration, Leadership Role
Behle, Heike – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Students and graduates alike are encouraged to enhance their skills and knowledge by moving to a different European country as both national governments and European institutions anticipate individual skill gains, closer European networks and a boost to national economies as a result. Using data from a longitudinal survey, this paper follows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entry Workers, Career Development
Margherio, Cara; Horner-Devine, M. Claire; Mizumori, Sheri J. Y.; Yen, Joyce W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience is a National Institutes of Health-funded, national program that addresses challenges to the persistence of diverse early-career neuroscientists. In doing so, BRAINS aims to advance diversity in neuroscience by increasing career advancement and retention of post-PhD,…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Scientists, Entry Workers, Persistence
Ju, Song; Zhang, Dalun; Pacha, Jacqueline – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2012
Individuals with disabilities face persistent challenges in gaining meaningful employment. One of the barriers to successful employment is a lack of employability skills. The purpose of this study was to identify employability skills that employers value as being important and to examine whether employers have different expectations for…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Employees, Disabilities, Job Skills
Johnson, Emily; Lahey, Joanna – Journal of Career Development, 2011
Obtaining an entry-level job can be critically important for women with little education, particularly those who have taken time out of the labor force. This article uses archival data from a field experiment, called a resume audit study, to examine the characteristics of entry-level resumes that are important to potential employers. In accordance…
Descriptors: Females, Education Work Relationship, Labor Force, Employment Interviews
Parker, Yana – 1996
This book presents a step-by-step approach to writing resumes that get interviews. The third edition of a book first published in 1983 has been updated by the addition of the following: (1) a clearer and simpler 10-step approach; (2) a new strategy for creating chronological resumes; (3) many more creative routes around resume writing roadblocks;…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Download full textOhio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) for masonry occupations contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Competence, Competency Based Education
Peer reviewedHaid, William R. – College and University, 1995
Younger employees in school admissions and records offices wishing to advance within the organization are encouraged to distinguish themselves, find a specialty, focus on customer relations, communicate expectations in leadership situations, keep priorities straight, embrace change and cultivate flexibility, keep integrity intact, and develop a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Admissions Officers, Career Development
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Competence, Competency Based Education
Peer reviewedJenkins, Dorothy E. – Journal of Career Development, 1987
Lists the expectations that employers have for entry-level workers, as well as the skills needed to be promotable in the next century. Compares employers' expectations with a profile of student skills. Gives implications for school counselors. (CH)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Counselor Role
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Career Development, Carpentry
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Competence, Competency Based Education
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Development, Competence, Competency Based Education
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Vocational Instructional Materials Lab. – 1995
This Occupational Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP) contains a competency list verified by expert workers and developed through a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This OCAP identifies the occupational, academic, and employability skills (competencies)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Buildings, Career Development
