CAREER DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRAL TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Titel:
CAREER DEVELOPMENT: INTEGRAL TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Auteur:
Stanley, Patricia
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (1996) nr. 5 pagina's 433-444
Jaar:
1996-09
Inhoud:
Adults in the workforce must be retrained to keep pace with the development of the nation and the advances and changes in an ever-increasing information- and technology-driven world economy. Career development is an essential component of all training and retraining programs. The quality of the future workforce depends on the ability to adapt to rapid changes, including the information explosion and the rapid advancement of technology. Career development competencies address these changes over an individual's lifetime as competencies attained at one level of education are the basis for new, expanded competencies at the next level. Career development structures greatly enhance the ability of a nation to have a productive workforce, the essential basis of economic development. Trainers of the future workforce must be aware of the importance of career development and integrate career development competencies in every program. In-service education opportunities must be made accessible to trainers for successful implementation of career development concepts in all training programs. Using technology such as compressed video transmission over telephone lines, satellite teleconferencing, and mentoring through computer modems makes it possible to deliver this needed in-service to all trainers. Using telecommunications technology, two goals may be accomplished simultaneously during such in-service training programs: (a) Providing hands-on, vivid examples of high technology to deliver the training and (b) delivering the in-service content, a career development competency framework. Trainers, like all students, learn best by using the technologies in meaningful ways.
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