Download or read book Soft Skills Training written by Frederick H. Wentz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was hired by a major university to teach recently released offenders how to become employed. I walked into my first class intending to follow the lead of all the other job training programs in the city, which was teaching the students to properly fill out applications, write resumes, facilitate mock interviews, and locate employment opportunities. After the first couple of classes, most of the students were either not paying attention or sleeping. I quickly realized my presentation needed to be interesting, challenging, beneficial, and actually guide the participants on how to remain employed. However, I was unable to find any published material for teaching new hires the soft skills necessary to keep a job. This workbook is a compilation of the soft skills class material I have developed over an eighteen year period. I have used this material with great success and have taught soft skills in schools, inner-city church programs, nonprofits, and government funded job training programs. It is a unique collection of essays, exercises, quotes, and maxims that will give students a realistic perspective on work-related expectations and the expectations of the supervisors who hire them. It will help students develop their problem solving skills, guide them in making appropriate decisions, and create a desire to plan out goals and achieve them. The workbook style is challenging and playful, serious and engaging and a stepping stone to developing the cognitive skills necessary to quash unproductive thinking and self-defeating emotional behaviors.
Download or read book Employment and training program highlights written by United States. Employment and Training Administration and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Work written by W. Norton Grubb and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1996-05-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grubb's powerful vision of a workforce development system connected by vertical ladders for upward mobility adds an important new dimension to our continued efforts at system reform. The unfortunate reality is that neither our first-chance education system nor our second-chance job training system have succeeded in creating clear pathways out of poverty for many of our citizens. Grubb's message deserves a serious hearing by policy makers and practitioners alike." —Evelyn Ganzglass, National Governors' Association Over the past three decades, job training programs have proliferated in response to mounting problems of unemployment, poverty, and expanding welfare rolls. These programs and the institutions that administer them have grown to a number and complexity that make it increasingly difficult for policymakers to interpret their effectiveness. Learning to Work offers a comprehensive assessment of efforts to move individuals into the workforce, and explains why their success has been limited. Learning to Work offers a complete history of job training in the United States, beginning with the Department of Labor's manpower development programs in the1960s and detailing the expansion of services through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in the 1970s and the Job Training Partnership Act in the 1980s.Other programs have sprung from the welfare system or were designed to meet the needs of various state and corporate development initiatives. The result is a complex mosaic of welfare-to-work, second-chance training, and experimental programs, all with their own goals, methodology, institutional administration, and funding. Learning to Work examines the findings of the most recent and sophisticated job training evaluations and what they reveal for each type of program. Which agendas prove most effective? Do their effects last over time? How well do programs benefit various populations, from welfare recipients to youths to displaced employees in need of retraining? The results are not encouraging. Many programs increase employment and reduce welfare dependence, but by meager increments, and the results are often temporary. On average most programs boosted earnings by only $200 to $500 per year, and even these small effects tended to decay after four or five years.Overall, job training programs moved very few individuals permanently off welfare, and provided no entry into a middle-class occupation or income. Learning to Work provides possible explanations for these poor results, citing the limited scope of individual programs, their lack of linkages to other programs or job-related opportunities, the absence of academic content or solid instructional methods, and their vulnerability to local political interference. Author Norton Grubb traces the root of these problems to the inherent separation of job training programs from the more successful educational system. He proposes consolidating the two domains into a clearly defined hierarchy of programs that combine school- and work-based instruction and employ proven methods of student-centered, project-based teaching. By linking programs tailored to every level of need and replacing short-term job training with long-term education, a system could be created to enable individuals to achieve increasing levels of economic success. The problems that job training programs address are too serious too ignore. Learning to Work tells us what's wrong with job training today, and offers a practical vision for reform.
Download or read book Multiple Employment Training Programs written by Linda G. Morra and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating a National Employment Training System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Employment Training and Counseling Amendments of 1987 and Other Issues written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiple Employment Training Programs written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses concerns about the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal employment training system. Provides information on similar programs that target four groups - the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, older workers, and youth. Compares key program characteristics, including goals, clients, services, service delivery approaches, and federal funding mechanisms. Tables.
Download or read book An Act to Establish an Employment Training Program for Displaced Homemakers and for Other Purposes written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment and Training Programs in the United States 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment and Training Policy 1982 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Veterans Job Training and Employment written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Education, Training, and Employment and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Training that Gets Results written by Michael Bernick and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a strong private economy can reduce unemployment more successfully than government programmes and that job training programmes should reflect the current market. Looks at ways of building and maintaining career ladders for the working poor, the roles of welfare reform and emerging new occupations in the ITC industries, aspects of poverty reduction, and job training in a world of globalization.
Download or read book Index to Publications of the Employment and Training Administration written by United States. Employment and Training Administration and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Job Training Partnership Act Youth Employment Amendments of 1989 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investing in America s Workforce written by Carl E. Van Horn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Training and Employment Report of the Secretary of Labor written by United States. Department of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 4765 the 21st Century Veterans Employment and Training Act and H R 3256 the Veterans Right to Know Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Benefits and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
