A Career Development Conference for Disadvantaged Young Adults.

Autor/in	Price, William T., Jr.
Titel	A Career Development Conference for Disadvantaged Young Adults.
Quelle	(1986), (13 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Adult Education; Career Choice; Career Development; Career Education; Career Planning; Conferences; Decision Making; Economically Disadvantaged; Education Work Relationship; Employment Patterns; Job Search Methods; Self Esteem; Young Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Berufsentwicklung; Arbeitslehre; Karriereplanung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Arbeitsplatzsuchtheorie; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	A career development conference was targeted to disadvantaged young adults who needed assistance in their transition from school to work. Conference participants were 27 economically disadvantaged clients of an agency in southwestern Virginia partially funded by resources from the Job Training Partnership Act. The conference was designed to meet four primary objectives: develop career decision-making and planning skills, develop job seeking skills, develop job retention skills, and enhance each participant's self-esteem and confidence. The curriculum included self-assessments, career decision making, acquisition of knowledge about careers, job seeking skills, and job retention skills. Benefits were felt to be associated with using a conference setting at a major university, including greater concentration at a site removed from participants' homes, provision of new experiences designed to build social skills and self-esteem, presentation of material in a concentrated amount of time, and creation of a learning climate different from the traditional classroom setting. An informal follow-up survey indicated that a majority of participants obtained employment. All who obtained employment indicated that knowledge and skills gained from the conference helped get them a job. (YLB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01