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Broadbent, William A. – 1979
A three-part, state-wide survey was conducted in Spring 1979, to determine employer satisfaction with the vocational programs offered at Hawaii's high schools and community colleges. Three populations were involved in the survey: (1) the personnel directors of 29 firms representing approximately 25% of the businesses in Hawaii with 250 or more…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Business, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Download full textScopino, John A. – 1980
Information on the 1979 employment activities of 1977 graduates with bachelor's and master's degrees in science and engineering (S/E) fields is presented. Trends in cohort size are analyzed to provide a historical perspective for the survey findings. Factors causing employment levels to be lower than the cohort size as S/E graduates made the…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, Computer Science, Education Work Relationship
Braden, Paul V.; Paul, Krishan K. – 1979
Vocational education plays a significant role in the nation's economic development in terms of its capacity to make individuals more employable. It can respond to specific regional needs by producing the skilled workers for a rapidly growing industry. If, however, the industries of a region do not utilize the skills of the existing labor force, it…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Coordination, Economic Development, Economic Factors
SWENSON, JOHN H. – 1968
THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT, CONDUCTED DURING THE PERIOD SEPTEMBER 20, 1965, TO MARCH 15, 1968 WERE TO (1) DETERMINE THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF THOSE PERSONS WORKING AS SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIES, (2) DEVELOP AN INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM TO MEET THESE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, (3) CONDUCT A PILOT TRAINING PROGRAM TO TEST THE ADEQUACY OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL…
Descriptors: Business Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Guides
Nebraska Occupational Needs Research Coordinating Unit, Lincoln. – 1968
THE NEED FOR OCCUPATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS WAS ASCERTAINED BY DESIGNING A MODEL FOR STATEWIDE ASSESSMENT OF EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. A LIST OF 63,125 NEBRASKA EMPLOYERS WAS DEVELOPED IN COOPERATION WITH THE STATE TAX COMMISSIONER, INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. QUESTIONNAIRES CONSISTING OF 174 JOB CLUSTERS WERE…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business Education, Distributive Education, Educational Planning
Fawley, Malcolm J. – 1977
As the third phase of a project designed to develop a system for statewide follow-up of postsecondary vocational education, a study was conducted to develop instruments that would provide data for the employability assessment of the graduates from vocational programs. The instruments were designed to answer two questions: Are the students prepared…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes
New York State Dept. of Labor, Albany. Research and Statistics Office. – 1969
The effects of technological change on the manpower and training needs of New York State industry were studied in a survey of 281 Industrial situations. The study was designed to help answer questions about the effects of factory and related technological change in displacing workers, in creating recruitment and training needs, and in altering the…
Descriptors: Automation, Career Change, Educational Needs, Employment Level
Baker, William E.; And Others – 1972
The document is one of five summary reports, all part of a Pre-Technical Curriculum Planning Project for secondary students who aspire to technical employment or post secondary technical education. This report represents the results of an assessment of the northeast Florida areas technical occupations in business. A three-phase approach was…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business, Business Skills, Computer Science
Allred, Marcus D.; Myers, Christine F. – 1973
The step-by-step procedures contained in this manual are intended to develop a simple information system that can be used to collect and process the best possible factual data on the manpower needs of the community served by an educational institution, so that long-range planning of vocational curriculum and guidance can be based on what the jobs…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Curriculum Development
Schultz, T. P. – 1968
This memorandum derives estimates of the private rate of return to schooling for men and women based on a 1965 labor force survey, past cross-sectional data, and the long-term educational public policy of Bogota, Colombia. Here resources may be viewed as an investment in the future productive capacity of people. Depending on the costs and benefits…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Colorado State Dept. of Employment, Denver. Research and Analysis Section. – 1972
This study was conducted to supply information for vocational education planners concerning the employment needs of the health services industry in Colorado. It should also provide some indication of the demand for trained workers in the occupations surveyed by coordinating expected company expansion and replacement needs with the number to be…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Needs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Programs
Choy, Susan P.; Geis, Sonya; Carroll, C. Dennis – 1997
This study used data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) and Beginning Postsecondary Student (BPS) studies to examine: the early labor force experiences of college students who either graduated or dropped out; student borrowing for postsecondary education; and student loan debt burden and repayment status. The B&B group (n=11,000) was…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment, Debt (Financial)
Evangelista, Leonardo – 2003
An ongoing online survey is being conducted about how the Internet has changed career guidance for European career advisors and its impact in the following areas: (1) overall professional practice; (2) service to clients; (3) clients' development process and job searches; and (4) the services of individual organizations, including the delivery of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Career Information Systems
Papp, Raymond – 1998
In order to identify the IS (Information Systems) skills in greatest demand in Connecticut and the New England region, classified ads for business-oriented IS positions appearing in the region's major newspapers during the summer of 1998 were analyzed. This paper highlights these findings and compares them to the skills employers from other…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Content Analysis
Direct linkO'Connor, Natasha; Iverson, Kathleen; Colky, Deborah – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2003
A model illustrating the relationship between mentoring and job competency was developed and tested in a sample of 82 members of a local chapter of a national association for training and development professionals. Human capital was conceptualized in terms of job competency attainment and social capital in terms of mentoring and protege…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Mentors, Income, Job Satisfaction
