General Workforce Development
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– General Information –
Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, 109th Congress.
Description: Contains information on decisions and issues facing the US Committee on Education and the Workforce
Employment & Volunteer Opportunities for Seniors 
Author: Lane, Rosalie
Description: A factsheet that provides an overview of the changing role of seniors in the workplace.
Author: Centrallo, Carol
Description: This publication focuses on marketable skills and takes you through the skill identification process. Other publications in this series discuss how values and interests relate to careers.
Phonetics - the sounds of Spanish, German and English
Description: This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish, German and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: A review of information about factors that contributes to and create barriers to college success. Explanation of the skills that contribute to college success are the same ones needed for workplace success.
Ready for Work - Action Brief #2
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: An article that describes facts that relate to teen employment.
The Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Description: The website for Berger Institute, educates students, scholars, law-makers, and the community about a wide range of work and family issues including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health, and child development.
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.
Writing Experience Resumes and Targeted Cover Letters
Author: Urich, Judith
Description: Teaches how to write experience resumes and targeted cover letters. Includes sample resumes for an adult with a ragged resume and two teens, one with and one without job experience. Materials in html and pdf. Program is web based.
– Professional Development –
Phonetics - the sounds of Spanish, German and English
Description: This site contains animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish, German and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language. There is also an interactive diagram of the articulatory anatomy.
Using Technology to Step Up Your Job Performance
Author: Dunham, Trudy (31 more by this author); Barbara Woods, Iowa State University
Description: CYFAR 2009 workshop identifying technologies and how to incorporate them into the day-to-day work life to simplify and manage tasks. Basic technologies and some newer technologies are presented with overviews of how these tools can be used to help with work activities.
– Programming Resource –
Preparation for the Real World: A Workforce Preparation and Entrepreneurship Training Model
Author: Imani Fields, Nia; Alganesh Piechocinski; Kendra Wells ; Manami Brown
Description: CYFAR 2009 PowerPoint presentation provides an introduction to Maryland 4-H's Entrepreneurship & Workforce Readiness (EWR) Model, describing its key components, how to implement the model. and key project outcomes and evaluation strategies.
Writing Experience Resumes and Targeted Cover Letters
Author: Urich, Judith
Description: Teaches how to write experience resumes and targeted cover letters. Includes sample resumes for an adult with a ragged resume and two teens, one with and one without job experience. Materials in html and pdf. Program is web based.
– Research –
The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market
Author: Holtz-Eakin, Douglas
Description: A discussion of and review of research findings about the immigrant labor force's - the skills they have to bring to the market; the types of jobs they hold; their compensation; and their impact on native-born workforce - role in today's U.S. economy.