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Etherington, Helen M. – ABCA Bulletin, 1980
Describes a systems approach to the job search. Notes how courses in business communications, technical writing, and report writing can help students acquire job search skills. (RL)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Higher Education, Job Applicants, Job Application
Feingold, S. Norman; Hansard-Winkler, Glenda Ann – 1989
This document is intended for use by adult job seekers and their employment counselors. It provides names and addresses for more than 1,200 journals that regularly carry ads announcing job and career vacancies. The journals are listed in alphabetical order. An extensive index links 138 occupations to appropriate periodicals. Other information in…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Employment Counselors
Zambrano, Laura C. – Academic Therapy, 1988
This article examines the role of the vocational counselor in the job-seeking process for learning-disabled adults. It covers assessment of clients' interests and abilities and matching with job opportunities; teaching of job-seeking skills; use of volunteer jobs to assess clients' work habits; job-hunting procedures; and dealing with work…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Counselor Role, Employment Opportunities
Brill, Jay; Hartman, Rhona C. – 1986
This fact sheet is designed to be a resource for disabled students themselves and for counselors, administrators, and instructors who are involved in career planning and placement strategies for disabled persons in postsecondary academic and technical institutions. The fact sheet is organized into five sections. The Selected Campus Strategies…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Planning, Citations (References)
Settles, Ivan – 1987
Steps in the administrative job search, with a focus on marketing oneself, are described in detail in this guidebook. Topics of discussion are as follows: preparatory organization (getting started); defining one's priorities; writing a resume and letter of application; maintaining a placement file; surviving the screening and interview processes;…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection, Administrators, Career Planning
Wegmann, Robert; And Others – 1989
This book reviews the present job market and projects the changes in the economy and work lives through the year 2000. It examines the difficulties in finding a job in a constantly changing market and stresses the necessity of learning job-search skills for all adults. The book is organized in 12 chapters grouped in three parts. Part 1 describes…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Planning
Coad, Cynthia – 1985
This guide is intended to assist vocational training placement personnel responsible for recruiting, counseling, or providing vocational services to disadvantaged or unemployed clients of a Job Training Partnership Act program. The manual is a compilation of verified vocational educational activities related to job placement and followup…
Descriptors: Business Education, Business Skills, Check Lists, Competency Based Education
Kidney, John – 1982
This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on-the-job training. The two goals stated for this module are to know the procedure for job placement and to be prepared to instruct students for job…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Cooperative Education, Counseling Techniques
Peterson, Elwood – 1983
This guide contains student materials and teaching suggestions to prepare students for finding and getting a job. Constructed in narrative format, the 32 sections of the guide cover the following topics, among others: the job search, qualifications, how to look for a job, dressing for success, letters of application, resumes, job interviews,…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Ladders, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
Miller, Janet M. – 1983
This handbook, written for volunteer coordinators working with programs in adult basic education (ABE) and English as a second language (ESL), consists of information dealing with the planning, day-to-day coordination, and followup efforts needed to utilize volunteers effectively. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Adult Basic Education, Coordination
Canada Employment and Immigration Commission, Ottawa (Ontario). Employment Support Services Branch. – 1984
This booklet lists and describes materials that can be used for employment counseling in Canada. The booklet is organized in two parts. The first part lists and describes counseling tools. Some of the tools listed include Moving On, the Canadian Occupational Interest Inventory, the General Aptitude Test Battery, Index to Canadian Occupations,…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development