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Intended to explore the educational role of the workplace, this volume, which is the result of a conference, focuses on questions such as: what must educators do to work effectively with employers to develop high quality on-the-job educational experiences.

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Finally, the authors look at work as an exchange relation and demonstrate how work education can be used to foster self-assessment, help students in job search and salary negotiation processes, and prepare them for future work opportunities.

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Finally, the authors look at work as an exchange relation and demonstrate how work education can be used to foster self-assessment, help students in job search and salary negotiation processes, and prepare them for future work opportunities.

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In the third section, the contributors use a range of methodologies to address appropriate topics in the career field, including the impact of parental influence on career choice, the problem of unemployment, midlife career change, and women's career development.

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This book offers a new approach for helping managers and organizations make better, more productive use of both men and women at work-an approach based on what they have in common, not on what some think divides them.

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The training and development function has made important contributions to the success of American corporations, but is it time now for an overhaul

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Drawing on contemporary, internationally-significant case studies in water education, management education and education for sustainable development along with UNESCO's International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, this book debates the key issues surrounding vocational education.

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Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. This title debates the key issues surrounding vocational education.

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Addresses the specifics of job market. This resource for counselors looking to break into the business. From practical matters to ethical concerns, it provides the professional tools, problem-solving tips, and soul-searching wisdom a counselor needs to ensure a successful and satisfying practice.

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Offers a range of related perspectives on competence issues, which should be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, academics and researchers in the fields of teaching, social work, and youth and community work. The book includes comparisons with vocational education initiatives in Europe.

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Focuses on how to maximise opportunities both at school and outside school. Covering areas from attitude and confidence building to getting along with parents and teachers, from goal setting and exam preparation to career investigation and landing a job, this book is aimed at teenagers grappling with the challenges of high school.

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The Insiders Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.

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Among the topics covered are STW implementation and participation, career academies, education and employment effects of STW participation, the role of STW programming in the new economy, the college for all movement, and STW pedagogy.

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Presents an analysis of how competence is measured in professional and vocational education, highlighting the fundamental flaws of the system and providing suggestions as to how they might be rectified. This book argues that strategies for vocational and professional education adopted by the UK are founded upon a number of fundamental errors.

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A rigorous analysis of how competence is measured in professional and vocational education, highlighting the fundamental flaws of the current system and providing innovative suggestions as to how they might be rectified.

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Based on a five-year study, this work uses excerpts from interviews to examine ten adolescents' reasoning or "groundedness" for choices they make about their future, and offers suggestions for improving guidance services.

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This book examines the critical role that the first-year seminar can play in setting the stage for student success. Authors suggest that the time is right for colleges and universities to re-imagine the first-year seminar course by increasing the focus on career exploration and decision-making and addressing key success skills students need.

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This book examines the critical role that the first-year seminar can play in setting the stage for student success. Authors suggest that the time is right for colleges and universities to re-imagine the first-year seminar course by increasing the focus on career exploration and decision-making and addressing key success skills students need.

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This guidebook contains what every college graduate needs to know to find a good job in their major, and it provides sound advice on establishing a professional identity, surviving the critical first year on the job, and ensuring marketability in the future.

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This guidebook contains what every college graduate needs to know to find a good job in their major, and it provides sound advice on establishing a professional identity, surviving the critical first year on the job, and ensuring marketability in the future.

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