The activity permits students to reflect on the ways their own identities are privileged or further marginalized during the recruitment process. Students determine ways to re-create job descriptions that remove inequitable language, such as shifting from trait-based language to behavioral-based language and the inclusion of expectation-lowering…

The number of biomedical PhD scientists being trained and graduated far exceeds the number of academic faculty positions and academic research jobs. If this trend is compelling biomedical PhD scientists to increasingly seek career paths outside of academia, then more should be known about their intentions, desires, training experiences, and career…

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2017, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 20-22 July, 2017. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2017, 20-23 July, which had a total of 652 submissions.…

Guides are provided for planning, operating, and leading a Job Search Club Program. The planning guide for use by club directors, program committees, and club staff presents a cohesive, systematic plan for launching a successful job search program. It offers a step-by-step description of the essential elements of the planning process, an…

This curriculum guide contains materials written for teachers or group leaders of graduate students in educational psychology, psychology, sociology, and child and family studies and is designed to reflect the basic assumptions of educational equity, i.e., sex-fair and sex-affirmative facilitator attitudes, and counseling and teaching techniques.…

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 workbook provides information and activities that require students to gather…

This brief report describes a 1-year project to develop a curriculum on career exploration for adult basic education (ABE) students. The project components included developing and administering a needs assessment, developing and testing a curriculum during six workshops, and revising and packaging the curriculum. The curriculum was used with 35…

This instructor's guide contains six modules designed to help teach learners to prepare for, find, and be successful on a job. The modules include the following components: module overview, student outcome, purpose, introduction, icebreaker, background information, application activity, wrap-up, and handouts. The modules cover the following…

This study examines the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of an instructional development project addressing resume writing. The project produced a learning activity package (LAP) that guides ninth-grade students through the steps necessary to write a complete resume. The LAP was organized by the main sections placed in…

This resource manual is one of the components of "Work Skills," a set of competency-based instructional materials written for low-level readers that prepares students with specific job search and job keeping skills. ("Work Skills" is part of the "Connections" package, which represents a synthesis of significant work on education and employment and…

This instructor's manual complements the Job Seeker's Workbook, which is a practical, step-by-step course on job seeking and related skills. The manual contains a suggested lesson plan for a 30-hour course. The lesson plan is structured around goals and measurable outcomes for each section of the six-unit course. The goals and outcomes are…

A three-fold research challenge, focused on the following general, interrelated questions, is undertaken in this study: (1) How does one develop competencies required in different university degrees in order to adequately function both as a person in society as well as in professional practice? (2) What role do Institutions of Higher Education,…

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…

Based on a survey of former fulltime homemakers in the Reading, Pennsylvania, area, this handbook was designed to provide a framework for resource persons to lead group sessions for women in transition. The material focuses on leading women to assess their skills and to discover which skills developed through homemaking can be transferred into…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job searches in the Employability Skills Series. (The booklet is available separately as CE 031 157.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student performance and…