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Ashenden, Dean – Educational and Training Technology International, 1992
Discusses the rise of the concept of improved skills recognition in Australian industry. Highlights include the role of industrial relations; the Australian vocational education and training system; recognition, industrial relations, and workplace change; career and training paths; credentials; and future prospects. (10 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Career Development, Change, Credentials, Foreign Countries
Martin, Amy – Garbage: The Practical Journal for the Environment, 1992
This career guide for positions in the environmental field is directed at high school students, college students, and aspiring professionals. Includes suggestions for college study, descriptions of college programs, pertinent guides, directories, magazines, work opportunity listings, and professional organizations. (MCO)
Descriptors: Career Development, Emerging Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Environmental Education

Detlefsen, Ellen G. – Library Trends, 1992
Reports on an analysis of job announcements for library and information professionals in research institutions revealing a trend toward hiring subject specialists and administrative and technical professionals without masters degrees in librarianship. Findings reveal variety in positions and professionals hired and change in stated employment…
Descriptors: Administrators, Employment Opportunities, Employment Qualifications, Higher Education
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 1993
Describes Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation (KHIC), a nonprofit community development organization that creates jobs and helps small manufacturing businesses succeed in nine "perpetually poor" rural Kentucky counties. Outlines KHIC services: loans for both expansion and working capital; equity and real estate investments;…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Financial Support
Copeland, Rebecca; Bruno, Debra; Epstein, Nadine – Rural Electrification Magazine, 1999
Driven by restructuring, marketplace competition, and technological change, rural electric co-ops are implementing early retirement and severance packages, instituting staffing changes to reflect changing functions and needed skills, hiring business managers to develop business strategies and marketing plans, providing consumer-choice advocates,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperatives, Economic Factors, Electrical Occupations
Anthony, Mary Ann – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Presents characteristics of a good salary plan and identifies benefits of a job classification and wage scale system. Lists steps to follow to develop wage scale and job classification policies for a child care center. Includes a table relating proposed staff qualifications, staff responsibilities, and wage scales. (DLH)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Budgeting, Classification, Compensation (Remuneration)
Joekes, Susan P. – 1991
This paper examines the experience of development in the advanced developing countries in Asia from a gender perspective and draws some lessons for women in development policy in middle income countries in the Asian and Near East regions. The nature of the paper is exploratory, asking many questions on which further research and information are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Economic Change, Economic Development
Ford, Laurie Howton – 1995
Designed for professionals in the field of mental illness and staff involved in providing on-the-job support for persons with mental illness, this book provides an overview of employment issues relevant to such workers. The 23 chapters of the book are organized in 5 sections. The first two sections provide background information about the clients…
Descriptors: Adults, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Potential, Job Development
National Association of Workforce Development Professionals, Washington, DC. – 1993
This packet contains seven short guides for activities that help work force development professionals develop their professionalism and establish ties with their peers. The guides cover the following topics: (1) building local peer networks; (2) meeting with other work force development professionals; (3) planning a roundtable; (4) sponsoring…
Descriptors: Adults, Employment Programs, Focus Groups, Job Development
Adler, Richard P. – 1998
The topic of the 1997 annual meeting of the Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS) sprang from the previous work of the FOCAS in the areas of education, lifelong learning, and technology. This report examines the changing nature of the employee-employer relationship and whether the economic, technological, demographic, and…
Descriptors: Change, Conferences, Cooperative Programs, Economic Factors
Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education, MO. – 1991
A study was formally requested by the Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education Institutional Research Directors' Group in the spring of 1990, to examine the economic impact of higher education on the Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, metropolitan area. An economic impact model was used which includes the four major components of direct…
Descriptors: Business, College Students, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Impact
Saunders, Lesley – 1989
This report provides results of an evaluation of SKILLNET, an education and training innovation to commission training in the newly redeveloped area of London's dockland. Chapter 1, an introduction, defines SKILLNET's primary function--to address the current mismatch between kinds of jobs available in the area and the levels and kinds of skills…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Fabian, Ellen S.; And Others – 1994
This book offers a business-centered approach to obtaining employment for people with disabilities. Using examples and anecdotes from the business world, the book focuses on business concepts such as mutual return on investment, high quality service, and customer satisfaction. Building on these concepts, job-placement professionals will be able to…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Cooperative Programs, Counselor Role, Disabilities
Sanyal, B. C.; And Others – 1991
Participants from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone met as educational planners to seek alternative methods of planning under the changing conditions of education, employment, and human resource development in their countries. The articles presented during the training course include: (1) "Education and Employment in…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Development
Lee, Marjorie; Verban, David – 1990
The booklet describes the Parents Alliance Employment Project, a program to provide job development, job placement, and job coaching to persons with intellectual disabilities in the DuPage County, Illinois, area. The first four sections provide an introduction, explain the program's philosophy, describe the population served by the project, and…
Descriptors: Agencies, Employment Potential, Employment Services, Job Development