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Download full textBennett, Vanessa; Lamback, Sara – Jobs for the Future, 2020
The IT industry is dynamic and quickly evolving. As a surge of diverse training models across subsectors and occupations is becoming available, this is a unique opportunity to enhance training practices and better align them to meet industry and employer needs. This brief offers recommendations for IT training providers to strengthen their work…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Entry Workers, Demand Occupations
Griffen, Sarah – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, February 17, 2009. It is the broadest and largest funding package in American history. The intent of the statute is to stimulate the economy both through direct spending on a range of programs and to create tax relief. Key to the stimulus is the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Money Management, Economic Opportunities, Job Development
Woodard, Chris A. – Journal of Adult Education, 2007
To test if adult learning theory can inform a training program for newly-hired employees in industry, a training program was set up using Knowles' concepts of andragogy. Evaluation results from before and after the new training program indicate that the perceptions of those in the new training program changed in a positive direction. This…
Descriptors: Andragogy, Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Job Training
Shimko, Barbara Whitaker – Training and Development Journal, 1990
Project Transition screens, trains, and places welfare recipients in fast food restaurant jobs. Training focuses on employee responsibility for managers' expectations and on behavior that will raise those expectations of new employees. (SK)
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Expectation, Food Service, Job Training
Anderson, Berger; And Others – Vocational Education Journal, 1986
Describes the School Community Training Program in a Wyoming school district that equips handicapped high school students with vocational skills and prepares them for the entry-level jobs that are available in the community. (CT)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Disabilities, Entry Workers, High Schools
Morley, Peter – Transition from Education through Employment, 1988
The author describes development of certification standards and an integrated training package for entry-level retail employees. Evaluation methods are discussed. (CH)
Descriptors: Distributive Education, Entry Workers, Foreign Countries, Job Training
Tanaka, Hiroshi – Personnel Journal, 1981
In Japan, learning through experience is incorporated into new employee training programs to help prepare employees mentally, physically, and emotionally for the increasingly complex challenges of corporate life. Discusses the year-long training program, corporate handbook revision, work experience, and physical and mental discipline. (CT)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Entry Workers, Industrial Training, Job Training
Peer reviewedCaspar, M.-L. – International Labour Review, 1988
The author evaluates a program whereby the French government subsidized employers to organize training for youth under employment contracts. Youth with above average employment opportunties benefited. Failure to serve the most disadvantaged youth is attributed to (1) individual youth choices, (2) screening by program administrators, and (3)…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers, Federal Aid, Foreign Countries
Berneman, Louis P.; And Others – 1980
The Corporate Career Demonstration Project is a Federally funded program designed to provide economically disadvantaged young adults with specialized training, counseling and educational experiences. The project's major goal is to prepare these youth for entry level corporate career positions they would otherwise be unable to obtain. Applicants…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Aetna Life and Casualty, Hartford, CT. – 1990
In response to increasing difficulty in finding qualified candidates for entry-level positions, the Aetna company has developed an Adult Training and Employment program. This program (1) trains, hires, and retains nontraditional candidates from the area's public and private agencies; (2) focuses on issues that affect this population's ability to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Corporate Education, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Caradonio, James; Spring, William – VocEd, 1983
The Boston Compact is a written agreement between the school system and the business community under which businesses agree to hire high school graduates in permanent jobs, provided that the schools prepare students through a program of career education, job readiness, and employability skills. (SK)
Descriptors: Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Employment Potential, Entry Workers
Brett, Belle – 1988
Inner City, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Polaroid Corporation, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, that has provided job training for the past 20 years to Boston's unemployed, underemployed, and disadvantaged residents, with entry into meaningful employment. Training occurs within the framework of an actual manufacturing environment so that the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Entry Workers, Graduate Surveys
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
Written by a technical committee's industry representatives, state officials, and educators in Oregon, this document lists the skills and knowledge required by employees in travel and tourism occupations. The following occupations are considered: rental representative; service agent; travel agent; bus/tour/driver/guide/sightseeing leader; manager…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Employment Potential, Entry Workers, Hospitality Occupations
Owens, Thomas R.; And Others – 1990
A study examined innovative workplace practices in companies that employ significant numbers of entry-level workers. In Phase 1 of the study, a literature review was undertaken, and interviews were conducted with human resource directors in 58 companies in the Pacific Northwest nominated as exemplary in their work with entry-level workers.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship
Washington State Board for Vocational Education, Olympia. – 1987
The Washington State Job Skills Program (JSP) was established by the legislature in 1983 as an economic development incentive to provide customized, quick-start training to meet the employment needs of new or expanding businesses in the state. Funds are granted to public and private educational institutions to train people for new jobs, prepare…
Descriptors: Contract Training, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
