The Job Training Charade

The Job Training Charade
Author: Gordon Lafer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801489518

A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].

Learning While Working

Learning While Working
Author: Paul Smith
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947308556

Don’t Leave On-the-Job Training to Chance People become experts at their job by learning while doing. But when your employees need to develop a new skill, how do you ensure they all receive the same experience if a trainer isn’t leading and guiding them? Most on-the-job training programs leave learners to sink or swim with whomever is overseeing their work. One worker may excel with a mentor who allows her to take charge of what she learns—while a second may get someone who uses the opportunity to offload paperwork and other administrative tasks. Learning While Working: Structuring Your On-the-Job Training shows you how to provide the focus and direction needed to track on-the-job progress and build a pipeline of better-skilled workers. Author Paul Smith combines real insight into building a structured program for project managers at the Waldinger Corporation with in-depth interviews of experienced learning and development professionals. Discover how a well-designed structured on-the-job training program can be your company’s talent development answer to a Swiss Army knife. This book doesn’t prescribe a one-size-fits-all solution. Instead, it will help you prepare a tailored, sustainable structured on-the-job training program for your organization. Included are practical tips to set defined roles for the learner, mentor, and trainer; create a tracking tool to clearly document skill growth; and ensure organizational learning gets put to use. On-the-job training won’t replace all employee development happening in the classroom, online, or through peer sharing of best practices. But by bringing order to these often disconnected and siloed efforts, you can fortify the learning structure that your organization needs to succeed.

The Right Skills for the Job?

The Right Skills for the Job?
Author: Rita Almeida
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821387154

This book revisits skills development policies and points to new directions for making training programs more effective and responsive in increasingly competitive labor market.

Getting Employed, Staying Employed

Getting Employed, Staying Employed
Author: Caven S. Mcloughlin
Publisher: Paul H Brookes Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1987
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Subtitle: job development and training for persons with severe handicaps. Detailed guidance in job development, placement and training for persons with severe handicaps. Includes information on identifying jobs, preparing a job evaluation, and matching employees with potential employers.

Improving On-the-Job Training

Improving On-the-Job Training
Author: William J. Rothwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2004-03-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787973734

This second edition of the best-selling book, Improving On-The-Job Training, provides professional trainers, HR managers, and line managers with a hands-on resource for installing a low-cost, low tech approach to planned on-the-job training program that will improve real-time work performance throughout an entire organization. A comprehensive volume, Improving On-The-Job Training Offers guidelines for establishing an OJT program. Outlines the key management issues that should be addressed when starting up a program. Describes effective methods of training the trainers and learners. Shows how to identify the need for planned on-the-job-training. Explains how to analyze work, worker, and workplace OJT. Offers vital information for preparing and presenting on-the-job training. Illustrates how to evaluate results of OJT. Describes aids to planned on-the-job training. Includes six valuable lessons about planned OJT programs.

OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs

OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010-08-10
Genre:
ISBN: 926408746X

An OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives.

Youth Employment and Training Programs

Youth Employment and Training Programs
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1985-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309035953

Do government-sponsored youth employment programs actually help? Between 1978 and 1981, the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) funded extensive programs designed to aid disadvantaged youth. The Committee on Youth Employment Programs examined the voluminous research performed by YEDPA and produced a comprehensive report and evaluation of the YEDPA efforts to assist the underprivileged. Beginning with YEDPA's inception and effective lifespan, this report goes on to analyze the data it generated, evaluate its accuracy, and draw conclusions about which YEDPA programs were effective, which were not, and why. A discussion of YEDPA strategies and their perceived value concludes the volume.

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce

Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2017-06-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309440068

Skilled technical occupationsâ€"defined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor's degree for entryâ€"are a key component of the U.S. economy. In response to globalization and advances in science and technology, American firms are demanding workers with greater proficiency in literacy and numeracy, as well as strong interpersonal, technical, and problem-solving skills. However, employer surveys and industry and government reports have raised concerns that the nation may not have an adequate supply of skilled technical workers to achieve its competitiveness and economic growth objectives. In response to the broader need for policy information and advice, Building America's Skilled Technical Workforce examines the coverage, effectiveness, flexibility, and coordination of the policies and various programs that prepare Americans for skilled technical jobs. This report provides action-oriented recommendations for improving the American system of technical education, training, and certification.

Soft Skills Training

Soft Skills Training
Author: Frederick H. Wentz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-14
Genre: Core competencies
ISBN: 9781468096491

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.

Computed Tomography For Learning Technologist

Computed Tomography For Learning Technologist
Author: Isidor Manuat Jardin
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre:
ISBN:

"This book fills an immense need within the CT technologist education genre. There are many books on CT for techs: physics, imaging anatomy and case studies, and scanning primers. There are fewer that take the express role of a hands-on, practical, day-to-day training guide in addition to ensuring that all the key safety and patient care principles are followed. The need became very clear to us in practice as we worked very hard to train many x-rays and nuclear medicine technologists to become CT certified and, more importantly, become expert technologists who can think on the fly, ask their radiologists the right questions, and in all cases help use fundamental principles to improve imaging protocols, contrast bolus timing, radiation dose monitoring management, and post-processing. To be comprehensive Isidor has included our well tested curriculum, which we certainly recommend. In addition, there is great primary material for learning and future reference." Payam Massaband, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology Chief, Radiology Service, VA Palo Alto Health Care System This book is intended for learning radiologic technology on OJT, on volunteer status, preparing to take the CT certification exam, and teaching facility mentors (experienced employees or supervisors). It contains material intended for educational purposes only and uses in conjunction with any CT reviewer workbook to enhance the experience of learning. There are 5 chapters in this book: Chapter 1, "Structured 3 Months Daily CT On-the-Job Training for Radiologic Technologist, consists of 3 Months of Daily Training Syllabus, 5 Days a Week for 12 Weeks", contains 4 training modules. Chapter 2, "Understanding the Equipment and the Technologist's Role", contains 6 reading modules. Chapter 3, "Tricks of the Trade and Tips for Safe CT Scans While Developing Good Habits and Muscle Memory", contains 6 reading modules. Chapter 4, "CT Procedure Overview and Sectional Anatomy - Identification of Body Landmarks, Blood vessels, Organs, and Image Anomalies: Foreign Objects or Image Artifacts", contains 5 image modules. Chapter 5 "Pop Quizzes from Reading Modules in Chapter Three, Chapter Four and Image Modules in Chapter Five" contains 13 modules topics with 25 questions per module topic. Isidor Jardin R.T. (R)(CT)(MR)(ARRT)