Research Brief
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Social Media for One-Stop Career Center Frontline Staff: Supporting Job Search and Improving Customer Service
Jan 19, 2012This brief is directed at frontline staff and managers in One-Stop Career Centers. It discusses the growth of social media in recruitment, reviews key tools, and discusses strategies for using these tools to support job seeker customers.
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Long-Term Unemployed and Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from a Panel Study of Workers Who Lost a Job During the Great Recession
Nov 10, 2011Presents the key findings from a panel study of the long-term unemployment workers who reported that they lost a job during the Great Recession and examines differences and similarities among unemployed workers who did and did not receive Unemployment Insurance. Also highlights the experiences of those who exhausted their Unemployment Insurance benefits before they were able to find another job.
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Evaluating Workforce Programs: A Guide to What Policymakers Need to Know to Structure Effective, User-Friendly Evaluations
Sep 12, 2011Discusses the value and purpose of program evaluations, highlights different evaluation tools and techniques, and illustrates how policymakers and program managers can structure and implement evaluations of workforce development programs.
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Graduating to Success in Employment: How Social Media Can Aid College Students in the Job Search
Sep 12, 2011Explores how college career service centers can assist college students and recent college graduates in using social media as part of their job search.
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Creating a Pathway to a Better Financial Future: Developing State Strategies for Asset Development and Wealth Creation for People with Disabilities
Jun 07, 2011Introduces basic asset development concepts, tools, and activities that states can use as a framework for developing comprehensive, integrated state asset development strategies for people with disabilities and their families.
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Social Networking for Workforce Professionals: A Primer
Jun 06, 2011Introduces the topic of social networking to workforce professionals and educators. Provides an overview of LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and offers a glimpse of other popular social media tools.
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Older Workers, the Great Recession, and the Impact of Long-Term Unemployment
Feb 22, 2011Highlights the key findings from the Heldrich Center’s effort to document the experiences of older and younger American workers during the worst labor market in a generation.
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States as Model Employers: Strategies for Moving People with Disabilities into Careers in State Government
Feb 07, 2011Examines the practices that states are using to become “model employers,” including strategies being implemented to expand the recruitment and hiring of people with disabilities within state government agencies.
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The “New Unemployables”: Older Job Seekers Struggle to Find Work During the Great Recession
Nov 16, 2010Provides information about the experiences of older job seekers compared to the experiences of younger, or prime age job seekers. Explores how the job search strategies and employment outcomes of older and younger job seekers differ, and the effect the recession has had on older job seekers’ financial and emotional well-being and outlook compared to younger job seekers.
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Older and Out of Work: Trends in Older Worker Displacement
Sep 17, 2010Examines the issue of unemployed older workers and addresses those who must work to support themselves and their families and to maintain health care coverage before becoming eligible for Medicare in a brief published in September 2008 by the Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College.
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