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Refugee Men and Women in the Segmented VET Market in Germany: On Their Career Prospects and the Role of Resource Inequality
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Franziska Meyer; Oliver Winkler – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Vocational education and training (VET) systems are characterized by both gender-specific occupational segregation and vertical occupational segmentation, leading to considerable differences in income and employment stability prospects across individual training occupations. For refugee men and women in particular, whose labor market positioning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Refugees, Occupations
What Gets Them Going? The Effects of Activation Policies on Personal Change Processes of Unemployed Youth
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Niyadurupola, Verena; Esposito, Lucio – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
Activation policies are widely adopted to encourage labour market participation of unemployed youth, and yet they are poorly understood and monitored with regard to the causal mechanisms unfolding through their implementation. Activation schemes are often based on the carrot-and-stick logic informed by microeconomic job search theory, but…
Descriptors: Youth, Unemployment, Behavior Change, Attitude Change
The Transnational Job Exchange Project: A French-German TEP
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Auffret, Katja; Sens, Aloisia – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The technical institutions Institut Mines Télécom in Albi, France (IMT) and Trier University for Applied Sciences at the Environmental Campus of Birkenfeld, Germany (UCB) have been running Virtual Exchange (VE) projects since 2013. These projects allow the French and German students to use the vocabulary learned in class in a real context and to…
Descriptors: Exchange Programs, Program Descriptions, Case Studies, International Educational Exchange
Designing and Implementing Virtual Exchange -- A Collection of Case Studies
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Francesca Helm; Ana Beaven – Research-publishing.net, 2020
Virtual exchange is gaining popularity in formal and non-formal education, partly as a means to internationalise the curriculum, and also to offer more sustainable and inclusive international and intercultural experiences to young people around the world. This volume brings together 19 case studies (17 in higher education and two in youth work) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Youth Programs
The Importance of Resume and Cover Letter Criteria in the United States, Australia, Germany, Thailand, and Hong Kong.
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Pibal, Darlene – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1998
Responses from 108 Australian, 50 U.S., 39 German, 28 Thai, and 16 Hong Kong human-resource managers examined their views of the hiring process. Differences among the countries appeared in the importance of certain resume and cover-letter components, the preferred length of resumes, and the amount of time spent reading resumes and cover letters.…
Descriptors: Entry Workers, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Job Applicants
Writing a German Resume and Letter of Application.
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Bailey, Jutta – 1994
Appropriate format, content, and presentation of personal resumes and job application letters in German are discussed. For the resume, this includes notes on inclusion of pertinent personal data, educational background, military service, work experience, internships or continuing education, and other job-related skills. For the letter of…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Educational Experience, Employment Experience