The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of college students to identify: (1) how students approach the job market as they near graduation; (2) how responsive the market is to the graduating students; (3) the resources students use to seek their first full-time job after getting their degree; and (4) the…

This review shows how the Internet can support learning about the process of internationalization. A description of how Internet-based sources of information can be used by students when investigating internationalization has not been made. However, the Internet and its role during a corporation's foreign market expansion has not been investigated…

Presents sources of additional facts and assistance on community college faculty from the ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges. (Editor/RK)

Principal sources of data on employment and earnings or income are outlined here. Among them are Labor Department data sources, Labor Department publications, census publications from 1970 census, and the Social Security administration. (Author/AM)

Identifies those resources that should aid in making career choices in biology. Discussions of biology teaching and conservation occupations and trends are also given. (MDR)

Reexamines Parsonian orthodoxy on the narrowing and weakening of kin definitions, investigating in particular the working-class family in its employment context. Argues that the family can, and does, maintain itself within the general context of industrial society and in particular within the employment context. (Author)

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) should provide disabled working women with better employment prospects and greater earning capacities. The ADA prohibits discrimination in all terms and conditions of employment against qualified disabled persons who can perform the essential functions of a given job with or without reasonable…

Statistics reveal that 61% of older Canadian women who are unattached to a male partner live in poverty. Two primary factors why women are especially vulnerable to poverty are their financially dependent status and their inequality in the work force. Even women who have worked outside the home are more vulnerable to poverty in old age than their…

Identifies the information resources available to help community colleges conduct vocational program needs analyses, focusing on federal, state, and local unemployment figures and employment projections; periodicals, newspapers, and government publications; emerging occupational categories; projections for new industries; sources for industrial…

Over the years, the decennial census and the Current Population Survey have been major sources of essential data to and about workers in specific occupations. In the 1970s, the database of employment projections shifted from the census to the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey program. For various reasons, the National Occupational…

This research brief highlights student employment trends and their implications for higher education, and identifies major sources of national data on the subject. Text and tables provide data on: (1) number and percentage of college students employed, by age range, for 1988; (2) changes in the number and percent of employed college students, from…

This brief describes how the Internet serves as a professional development tool, enabling individuals to access information on employment opportunities, workplace trends, prospective employers, and job search strategies. Websites may offer only one service or include a variety of features. Some services are available at no cost, others are fee…

These training materials consist of a pretest, eight instructional units, and a posttest designed for a workshop to train counselors in using labor market information to help students improve their career decisions. Covered in the instructional units are the following topics: career decision making and the role of labor market information,…

Presenting employment projections for the total labor market through 1985, this document accompanies a series of forty-one reprints (CE 017 757-797) from the Occupational Outlook Handbook which provide current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The employment projections and related…

Focusing on occupations in the various metal industries, this document is one in a series of forty-one reprints from the Occupational Outlook Handbook providing current information and employment projections for individual occupations and industries through 1985. The specific occupations covered in this document include occupations in the aluminum…