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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"job skills"”.
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Curtus: An NLP Tool to Map Job Skills to Academic Courses
… burdened with the need to train students for the job instead of finding them prepared for it. Few business leaders feel that colleges prepare students for future jobs from day one. It can be a challenge for colleges to determine if their curricula meet the industry needs. Mapping industry needs to …
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Job Skills, Tolerance, and Positive Interactions: The Gendered Experiences of Appalachian Migrants
… and analyzed, including the acquisition of job skills, tolerance-based knowledge, and positive interactions with neighbors in their new environment.</p>
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An exploratory study of the factors affecting a job skills training project for women in Phumlani Village, Cape Town a case study of the Cape Town Child Welfare Society job skills training project
… was conducted to establish factors affecting a job skills training project offered by Cape Town Child Welfare (CTCW) in Phumlani Village, an informal settlement in Cape Town. The study answered the following main research questions: what factors affected the job skills training project in …
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NASP standards and Rowan School Psychology graduates: does knowledge transfer to on-the-job skills?
… and supervisors' ratings on a measure of job performance. The information gathered was further correlated with job satisfaction. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data from the questionnaires. The results from this study indicate that there is a correlation between …
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Experiences of women who have completed a job skills training programme and their ability to access employment opportunities
… opportunities after having completed a skills training program. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were undertaken with fifteen women who were purposively selected from different backgrounds of Cape Town who had participated in a skills training program to participate in the research. The …
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An exploration of work dimensions in the Western Australian public service: A factor analysis of job skills and their contexts
… structure of work as ascertained by Functional Job Analysis and the Position Analysis Questionnaire. A questionnaire was developed by the Skills Resource Management Unit to determine the importance attached to work skills in a variety of public sector occupations. One hundred and ninety four …
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A study on the work of MIT Mechanical Engineering graduates
… work activities, career motivations, important job skills, the value of an MIT education, and potential improvements to the MIT alumni experience.
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Racial diversity in public garden internships
… institution, and have programs focused on job skills. Interns of color had positive experiences with internships and interest in public horticulture careers. Interns were more likely than administrators to describe a racial division of labor at gardens. Interns reported their families did …
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Ceta Resource Utilization for Youth Served by a State Child Welfare Agency
… for independence, but lack work experience, job skills and credentials necessary to secure gainful employment. In the absence of emotional and financial supports customarily provided by the natural family, these youth must depend on the state and agency. Without specialized employment-related …
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Labor-management training programs established and funded through collective bargaining agreements at firms employing 1000 or more persons
… and are helping workers learn new technical skills, develop Better basic skills, and enrich their personal lives. These programs share unique characteristics including their contract language, funding arrangements, programmatic content, educational approach, and shared governance. …
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Testing the role of corporate social responsibility and crisis response messaging in corporate reputational recovery
… fluid, and multifaceted (Cancel et al., 1997): Job skills range from relationship building (Wood, 2015), to media relations and crisis communications. Crises draw intense attention from media and publics, and often require immediate crisis communication from public relations practitioners …
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The College-to-Work Transition Through Temporary Employment Services: A Case Study in an Information Technology Company
… classroom to the workplace requires certain job knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs). How and where the New Employee acquires these KSAs is mired in the transition between education and the world-of-work. This dissertation informs the college-to-work transition process through the …
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Discounted: Stories of formerly gang involved and incarcerated Latino males in Los Angeles County
… rooted in fostering healing, hope, repair, and job/skills training to this disenfranchised population. A broad membership ranging from—school administrators, civic leaders, guidance counselors in juvenile detention centers, and nonprofit organizers will benefit from learning the elements needed …
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Dealing with violence against women in South Africa: A case study of the changing responses at the Saartjie Baartman centre for women and children in Cape Town (1999-2018)
… Centre’s services include shelter, counselling, job skills empowerment, legal advice and training, an empowerment programme, community outreach project, substance abuse programme and a child protection programme. In 2012, the Centre was almost closed down because of serious financial issues. This …
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An investigation into horticulture as a prevocational training tool for the E.M.R. student
… and work attitudes, improved mental and work skills, increased motivation, and promoted a general knowledge of horticulture. Limitations of the study made it difficult to validly determine whether the horticulture instructional unit was the treatment responsible for the significant increase in …
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Can youth employment programmes work? A programme theory evaluation of the work and skills placement programme
… work. Youth employment programmes (YEPs) offer job-skills training and employment services and aim to promote youth's employment prospects. Despite their prevalence worldwide few YEPs have been successful in reducing youth unemployment. In the few cases of success, little is known about how and …
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An Assessment of a Vocational Horticulture Training Curriculum at a School for Juvenile Offenders
… changing attitudes about personal success and job preparedness in a group of juvenile offenders. The curriculum focused on vocational training and entry-level job skills in horticulture and landscaping and prepared the youth for internship positions in grounds maintenance. Pre/post-tests based …
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Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes
<p>The job search has been the subject of research across many disciplines adopting varied perspectives. However, the industrial-organizational psychology literature on the job search has failed to properly consider the role of individual differences in thought about the utility of job skills …
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History of Employer-Provided Education from the Decades following the Civil War to the Post-Industrial Era, 1865 - 1970
… classified into four domains -- basic education, job skills training, general education, and professional development. A main focus of the study was how economic, technical, political, societal, ideological, and structural conditions have accompanied the changes in the economic base of the United …
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Academic leadership and work-related attitude
… sector are using their leadership abilities and skills to bring about enhanced academic performance from their academic colleagues and subordinates’. Therefore, in this research aims to identify which specific aspects of academic leadership skill-set have the maximum impact on academics’ …
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