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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED173612 AUTHOR: Carvell, Fred; And Others
TITLE: Choices and Challenges - A Student Guidebook about
Nontraditional Career Opportunities. First Edition.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 73 p.; Photographs in this document will not
reproduce
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ABSTRACT: This guidebook provides direction and information
that will help students understand what nontraditional
occupations are, what is creating new opportunities in such
occupations, and what employers and nontraditional
employees
say about the new trends. The first of thirteen chapters
gives the student information on how to use the guide.
Chapter 2 provides a self-awareness questionnaire designed
to increase the student's understanding of personal values
and interests. Chapter 3 examines the growth in
nontraditional occupations and defines nontraditional
vocational education programs, sex discrimination, sex
bias,
sex stereotyping, and affirmative action. Chapters 4 and 5
examine sex discrimination laws and equal employment
opportunity cases. The sixth chapter explores work, life
styles, and sex roles. Chapters 7 and 8 present information
on the opportunities for men and women in nontraditional
occupations and nontraditional employment patterns.
Chapters
9-12 discuss what employers say they want in employees, new
job choices, preparing for nontraditional careers, and
other
ways to obtain information and become involved with a
nontradiitonal career. The final chapter suggests questions
for the student who has made a career choice. Learning-aid
questions, self-awareness checksheets, and case studies are
used in the guide as aids to help students better
understand
the topics covered. (LRA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Career-Education; Demand-Occupations;
Employed-Women; Employer-Attitudes; Employment
Opportunities; Employment-Patterns; Guides-; Self-Concept;
Self-Evaluation; Sex-Role; Vocational-Education; Work
Environment
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Career-Choice;
*Equal
Opportunities-Jobs; *Nontraditional-Occupations; *Sex
Discrimination; *Sex-Stereotypes
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