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Wessels, Susan B.; Sumner, Dana F. – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
This paper describes a series of integrated career development activities offered in several required courses which are designed to help accounting majors gain a competitive edge in the job market. Supported by a partnership between the School of Business and the Academic and Career Planning Office, the Career Tool Kit program consists of…
Descriptors: College Students, Majors (Students), Career Development, Career Academies
Levenson, Ann M. – Journal of College Placement, 1982
Discusses ten common psychological roadblocks to job hunting including arbitrary deadlines, post-graduation letdown, isolation, lack of structure, neglecting information interviews, and ambivalence about getting a job. Presents strategies to help job-seekers surmount these obstacles. (RC)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Career Counseling, College Students, Counseling Techniques
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Lehker, Tom – Journal of Career Planning & Employment, 1996
Discusses perceptions of liberal arts students of Georgetown University who felt that the university's career center did not address their career service needs. Describes the steps taken by the career center's administration to make the center equally useful for all students. (SNR)
Descriptors: Career Centers, Career Exploration, Career Planning, Careers
Troutt-Erwin, Eileen; Isberner, Fred – 1988
Today's graduating technical students need more than a sound technical education to obtain personally and professionally rewarding employment; they also need job search skills to compete successfully in the job market. To address this need, a course called "Professional Development" at Southern Illinois University's College of Technical Careers…
Descriptors: College Programs, College Students, Course Content, Curriculum
Rouw, Robert; And Others – 1981
This guide presents a new approach to the teaching of the behaviors relating to job skills and the maintenance of successful employment for handicapped persons, in particular the mentally retarded. The manual is divided into three major learning areas: those of skills, knowledge, and attitudes. Unit 1 on skills contains two subsections that deal…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Dismissal (Personnel), Employee Attitudes, Employment
Scarborough, Jule Dee; Ellis, Joseph R. – 1984
The second year of a project that developed and implemented a model for on-bus instruction during travel time from two high schools to area vocational centers demonstrated that such an innovative delivery system was viable and effective. All units from Pollock's "A Curriculum Guide for Pre-Employment Skills" were adapted for use in the project.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Audiovisual Instruction, Bus Transportation, Delivery Systems
Heffner, Fred; And Others – 1980
This course of instruction contains materials designed to provide the trainee in an adult manpower training program with job-seeking and job-survival skills. Contents include a listing of course objectives and competencies by instructional units, a pre- and post-course test, and lesson plans for the two-section course. The ten units of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Planning
State Univ. of New York, Utica. Coll. of Technology. – 1982
Developed by a committee of vocational education teachers, the activities in this guide are intended to help instructors to teach students the attitudes, characteristics, and knowledge that will enable them to use their vocational education skills in the most effective way. They also are designed to help students overcome sex stereotypes and form…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Air Conditioning, Allied Health Occupations Education, Building Trades