Schools have an important role in teaching students how to use Social Network Site (SNS) for career purposes. This involves the opportunity for students to practice online career skills. Different types of digital environments are available for schools. There are SNS designed to enable users to interact and network. In addition there are digital…

This program guide for participants is part of the Job Search Skills package. (An instructor guide and five competency booklets are available separately as CE 031 965-971.) It is divided into two sections. The introduction explains the concept of job search skills and the importance employers place on these skills. An outline of the job search…

This document provides an introduction to a job search training activity--self-directed job search--which can be implemented by Private Industry Councils (PICs) or Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Prime Sponsors. The first section introduces self-directed job search for the economically disadvantaged. The next section describes…

This curriculum guide contains 15 lessons based on competency areas and indicators from the National Career Development Guidelines. They address competencies in each of the three developmental areas outlined in the guidelines: self-knowledge, educational and occupational exploration, and career planning. The lessons were designed using a…

This packet is designed to assist teachers and counselors of Adult Basic Education (ABE) and Graduate Equivalent Degree (GED) students to conduct practical individualized and small group workshops geared toward helping ABE students to look for a job. Each session is designed to take approximately three hours and employ the following formats: large…

Designed to utilize an infusion technique, this guide to career options for teenage parents contains eleven learning units: (1) Values Assessment Related to Careers; (2) Decision Making for the Pregnant Teenager; (3) Skills Assessment for Employment Options; (4) Decision Making Applied to Careers; (5) Creating a Job Interview File; (6) Basic…

This manual is a list of verified vocational education activities that relate to job development, job placement, and job follow-up/follow-through services. The activities incorporate information on employability skill development, occupations and labor market, job search training needed for the disadvantaged, student needs assessment, and student…

This student guide supplements a career development unit on coping in the world of work designed to assist students in developing coping strategies to deal with work entry and job adjustment problems. (Other components of the unit--instructor's handbook, handout/transparency masters, and filmstrip/sound cassette programs, are available…

This instructor guide accompanies the program guide and five competency booklets in the Job Search Skills package. (These other materials are available separately as CE 031 966-971.) It describes the Job Search Skills training program which is individualized and can be operated on an open-entry, open-exit basis, and lists the competencies, tasks,…

This course content guide was developed in accordance with the Standards for Accreditation of Public Schools adopted by the Arkansas State Board of Education. The guide is offered as a framework upon which a curriculum can be built. Within the subject area and at each grade level, the content guide identifies skills at three instructional levels:…

This handbook is intended to assist teachers involved in helping Southeast Asian refugees with little or no formal education to gain an understanding of U.S. culture. The guide is divided into the following four parts: an introduction describing the refugee training program that led to the development of the handbook, seven units of core…

This competency booklet for individualized competency-based instruction is the first of five in the Job Search Skills package. (Instructor program and guides are available separately as CE 031 965 and 966, the other booklets as CE 031 968-971.) It contains 15 operational units related to the job search competency of preparing for the job search.…

Materials presented in this kit form a package containing eighty-six vocational development oriented activities designed primarily for individuals and small groups of underachieving junior high or high school students and is intended to supplement regular classroom activities. Included in the kit are the following: (1) a teacher's guide containing…

This book, which is intended to assist teachers, supported employment personnel, and employment specialists, provides information on supports and methods that have proved successful in helping persons with autism obtain and hold jobs. Discussed in chapters 1-5 are the following topics: autism and vocational fitness; vocational planning for workers…

This booklet describes a model technical assistance program of 16 products and services for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act prime sponsors. An introduction overviews the developer, the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, and the model. Goals and components of the model are described. This information is provided for…