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Patricia Marie Shedrone – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many inmates in rural areas remain unprepared to obtain employment after incarceration because of the limited access to preparatory and reentry programs. After prison, these ex-offenders lack the vocational and educational resources required to obtain viable employment and struggle with their employability. Research has established that the lack…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Males
Leone, Peter; Wruble, Pamela – Abell Foundation, 2017
Re-entering society after incarceration presents a formidable set of challenges. In addition to reconnecting with family and community, successful transition after imprisonment requires a person not only to avoid criminal activity, but also to obtain and sustain employment--or continue along an education pathway. Those best able to navigate this…
Descriptors: Reentry Workers, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Education
Spiker, Katie – National Skills Coalition, 2020
The recent health crisis -- and unprecedented, rapid job loss associated with it -- has illuminated how unprepared the United States is for helping workers who lose their jobs reskill to prepare for and successfully enter new employment. Policy responses to the current crisis -- while critical -- have fallen far short of addressing challenges…
Descriptors: Unemployment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Employment
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Shippen, Margaret E.; Meyer, Jill M.; Derzis, Nicholas C.; Gage, Curtis – Journal of Correctional Education, 2017
Acquiring a job after incarceration is a perpetual challenge for ex-offenders. With nearly 95% of incarcerated individuals eventually returning to communities, the effort to understand and maintain employment and self-sufficiency may be a critical component of success. The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the career thoughts of…
Descriptors: Males, Criminals, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This employer's guide is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. The main purpose of this guide is to help employers who are interested in hiring women returning to paid…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employers, Employment Qualifications, Experience
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This counselor's guide is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. The main purpose of this is to help counselors work with women who are entering paid work after spending…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselors, Employed Women, Employment Qualifications
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
This Women's Workbook is part of the HAVE (Homemaking and Volunteer Experience) Skills materials designed to help women identify the job-relevant skills they have learned as homemakers and volunteers and to match those skills with paid jobs. In addition to helping women who are entering paid work after spending time as homemakers or volunteers,…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Change, Employed Women, Employment Qualifications
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
Adult women returning to paid employment often encounter the belief that homemaking and community volunteer work have no transferability to work experience. Project Access, designed to survey the skills acquired through women's life experience and determine their usefulness in selected direct-entry occupations, showed that the most commonly found…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Opportunities, Employment Programs
White, Carol R.; Pollack, Steve – 1980
This guidebook is designed to aid former homemakers to assess their skills and realize the transferability of them to the present day job market. It gives practical tips for all aspects of getting and holding a job, including the following: sources of employment; resumes; employer contact; application forms; employment tests; job interviews;…
Descriptors: Adults, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Qualifications, Employment Services
Neely, Margery A.; Dees, Diane – 1981
This workshop presentation from the National Vocational Guidance Association Annual Convention consists of two parts--a discussion of strategies for women to use in entering the paid labor force and a process to identify marketable competencies one has acquired. First, strategies are addressed for handling these three components of the change from…
Descriptors: Adults, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Qualifications, Evaluation
Martin, Melissa – 1998
This guide contains 80 short items that provide information and insight to persons conducting a job search, as well as practical tips for keeping a job. The 80 items are organized into seven chapters that cover the following topics: (1) jobs and careers; (2) job skills; (3) job seekers; (4) paper power; (5) presentation package, "You"; (6) tool…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Planning, Employee Attitudes, Employment Interviews
Smith, James P.; Ward, Michael P. – 1984
This report addresses two central questions raised by the rapidly changing economic role of American women during the 20th century. First, why have the reported wages of women remained constant at approximately 59 percent of men's wages, in spite of the enormous increase in the numbers of women who work and who presumably have been acquiring…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential
Novak, Kathy – 1980
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…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Planning, Displaced Homemakers, Employment Interviews
Fox, Marcia R. – 1979
Career planning and job hunting for graduate students are discussed in this book. In Chapter One important career planning activities during graduate study are discussed including: academic advisement, assessment of career goals, and obtaining practical experience. Steps for conducting an effective job search are detailed in Chapter Two. The…
Descriptors: Books, Career Change, Career Development, Career Planning
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1981
A project was designed to develop a process by which the life experiences of women could be assessed for entry into employment and for entry into or advanced placement in vocational education programs. Following a review of literature and interviews to determine the approaches currently used to accredit women's life experience learning,…
Descriptors: Certification, Competence, Credentials, Employment Qualifications
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