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Carly Robinson; Katharine Meyer; Chastity Bailey-Fakhoury; Susanna Loeb; Amirpasha Zandieh – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Purpose: Students enroll in college at least in part to prepare for a career after graduation. At the same time, for many students, attending college requires working to earn money (Perna, 2020). Optimally, these work positions concurrently provide students the opportunity to develop skills that have labor market returns, explore career…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Tutoring, Recruitment, Employment Opportunities
Daum, Menachem; And Others – 1981
The older job seeker faces both external and internal barriers in finding employment. External barriers include such economic and societal obstacles as age discrimination, rapid technological changes and the shifting demands of the job market. Internal barriers include diminishing job seeking motivation and limited job seeking skills. A conceptual…
Descriptors: Career Change, Employment Opportunities, Employment Potential, Expectation
Gray, Denis – 1981
Because older job seekers have been shown to exhibit less job search motivation and competence than other groups, a job club program based on learning and self help principles was developed to empower the older job seeker. Of persons (N=48) who requested assistance from a local area agency on aging, half entered the job club program and half were…
Descriptors: Competence, Employment Opportunities, Job Applicants, Job Satisfaction
Rice, Eric; And Others – 1976
Part of a series devoted to identifying and evaluating strategies which vocational education administrators and instructors can use at the secondary student, teacher, or administrator level to eliminate sex stereotyping and sex bias in vocational education programs, this simulation activity involves students in real-life situations requiring…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Decision Making Skills, Employer Attitudes, Employment
Smith, Marcia Datlow; And Others – 1995
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…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adjustment (to Environment), Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Autism