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New Job Searches, Constantly Upgrading Skills, and Financial Wellness: Challenges for Workers Identified in the Literature
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Thayer, Yvonne; Carliner, Saul; Driscoll, Margaret – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
In 2017, the authors began research for a book that would suggest training needs for the U.S. and Canadian workforce in the coming decades. Early in the research process they realized there was much more to understand in an evolving workplace than the call for reskilling workers. Workers would face many decisions influencing their careers while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Automation
Special Issue: Book Reviews 2002-2003.
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Grauer, Barbara Ellman, Ed. – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 2003
This special issue reviews 71 books on the following topics: career management; career opportunities for people with disabilities; federal government career information; college career development/counseling; job search strategies, tools, methods; coaching; retirement issues; strategies for managers; women and careers; general career books; and…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Development, Federal Government
Special Book Review Issue.
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Horvath, Clara, Ed.; And Others – Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, 1996
Reviews 32 books on the following topics: human resources and organizational development; guidance, assessment, and counseling; job search, networking, resumes, letters, and applications; careers in specific fields; transitions and retirement; and finding balance. (SK)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
Special Issue: Career Development and the Mature Worker.
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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
The Work/Leisure Connection.
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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
Jobs and Employment Sourcebook. Basic Information about Employment Trends, Job Search Preparation, Legal Rights of Employees and Job Applicants, Balancing Work and Household Obligations, Vocational Education and Job Training, and Self-Employment Opportunities. Personal Concerns Series, Volume 1.
Gough, Jeanne A., Ed. – 1997
This book, which is designed for the general reader who is planning to enter the job market or contemplating a career change, contains basic information about the jobs and the employment outlook; finding a job; employer and employee rights and obligations; balancing home and work; education and training; and self-employment, small business and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Check Lists