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"Today" Education Services, Delaware, OH. – 1976
This paper discusses problems that youth experience in seeking employment. Case histories are used to described the following problems: (1) unsuitable appearance; (2) negative attitudes; (3) poor attendance; (4) lack of punctuality; (5) unrealistic wage demands; (6) unrealistic expectations; (7) lack of knowledge of the job market; (8) lack of…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Employment Problems, Guides, Job Search Methods
Gainer, Lei – 1988
As the 16-24 age group, the traditional source of entry level workers, shrinks, employers increasingly have to hire the less advantaged to staff their entry-level work force; they must, therefore, hire people with deficient skills. At the same time, a mix of technical changes and heightened competition is increasing the skill level needed for work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Employee Attitudes
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen – 1987
English teachers who want to change professions have many skills that can be put to good use outside the classroom--a person who can operate a successful English classroom can tackle any job in the market. An objective look at teaching will yield an impressive list of teachers' competencies and capabilities, especially people skills, such as…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Planning, Education Work Relationship
Hayden, Ellen T.; And Others – 1981
Designed to aid students in career planning, this booklet outlines some basic principles and techniques needed to organize a job search. It is divided into five sections. Each section focuses on one major step in the process of job seeking: Self-Appraisal, Job Search, Job Application, Job Interview, and Job Maintenance. A brief outline of topics…
Descriptors: Ability, Attitudes, Career Education, Career Planning
Hoyt, Kenneth B.; And Others – 1990
This report describes an inquiry into the work attitudes and career decision making skills of 754 sophomores in seven rural and one urban high school in Maine. The study is the first part of a planned 7-year longitudinal study that will interview these students again when they are seniors and then again 5 years later. The eight papers in the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Development, Education Work Relationship
Werner, Claire – 1984
This collection of competency statements deals with the preemployment and work maturity skills that Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) youth should have before seeking employment. Addressed in the individual sections of the volume are the following skill areas: preemployment employer expectations; application writing skills; interview skills;…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competence, Employment Interviews, Employment Potential
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1975
This packet of materials provides a copy of the Career and Occupational Development exercises and complete documentation about administration and scoring procedures as released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). NAEP, an information-gathering project, used these exercises to survey the educational attainments of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Career Choice, Career Development
Hayden, Ellen T.; And Others – 1982
This instructor's guide accompanies a student booklet on job search methods. It is divided into five sections that focus on the five major steps in the process of job seeking: Self-Appraisal, Job Search, Job Application, Job Interview, and Job Maintenance. Since the sections can stand alone, the instructor may use as many or few as time and…
Descriptors: Ability, Attitudes, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education
Taylor, John H. – 1977
Designed to aid the job hunter in making career decisions, this workshop guide is divided into two parts. In part 1, "You Can Get There from Here," five of the fourteen section titles are "You Live Where You Work,""You Are What You Do,""You Are a Success,""What Do You Look for in a Job," and "Chart Your Career." The following are content examples…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Planning, Decision Making Skills
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1979
A project is reported and evaluated which provided experience-based career education opportunities for grades 9 and 10 in Minot, North Dakota, through Career Education PLUS (Planning, Learning, Understanding, Succeeding), an alternative education program. Focus of the evaluation is on the project objectives: to provide students with (1) training…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Career Education, Career Exploration
Wong, Eleanor; Smisko, Barbara – 1978
This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
DePaul Univ., Chicago, IL. Built Environment Partnership. – 1999
Twelve construction cluster skill standards and associated benchmarks were developed as part of a federally funded school-to-work initiative that included the following parties: the Chicago Public Schools; City Colleges of Chicago; and business, labor, and community organizations. The standards, which include core academic, generic workplace…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adjustment (to Environment), Building Trades, Career Planning