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Unemployed--Counseling of--Evaluation--Iowa--Black Hawk County; Vocational guidance--Iowa--Black Hawk County--Evaluation; Occupational training--Iowa--Black Hawk County--Evaluation; Occupational training--Evaluation; Vocational guidance--Evaluation; Iowa--Black Hawk County;

Abstract

The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) is a federally funded program that is an approach to employee training and placement to the economically disadvantaged, dislocated workers, or those facing significant employment barriers. The goal of ITP A is to put People to work by placing them in jobs through various training activities. Overall the ITP A program strives to move jobless individuals into permanent self-sustaining employment. A service offered through the ITPA program is career inventory. Career inventory are assessment tools used to determine a client's current abilities, values, and interests. After a client completes the career inventory they are given a final report that computes the career areas in which they have shown a high interest, high ability, and it coincides with their values. This report is utilized by the JTPA staff to develop a plan for the client that will best fit the client. The purpose of this study is to investigate the accuracy of the JTPA career inventory in predicting career areas for the clients. The study provides JTP A staff with information that the career inventory currently in use in the Black Hawk ITPA office is an effective tool in determining career areas for their clients. No statistics had been kept since the ITPA utilized career inventory, so this is a baseline study of the ability of the career inventory results to accurately summarize and predict career areas suitable for the clients based on their interests, abilities, and values. This study reported that jobs related to the technology skilled career area were most commonly chosen followed by clerical positions then service skilled positions. Those being placed in the technology skilled area were initially placed in those jobs and showed a high retention rate. Overall, the study showed that 77 of the 100 clients in the study remained in their initial placement at the 90-day follow up. This high number showed the JTPA staff that their initial placements were good based on the retention rates. The results of this study provides detailed information concerning the career inventory utilized by the JTPA office in Black Hawk County. The information can be used to examine that the use of the career inventory is a good predictor of career areas for the JTPA clients.

Year of Submission

2000

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

School of Health, Physical Education, and Leisure Services

First Advisor

Susan Hudson

Second Advisor

Sue Joslyn

Third Advisor

Jeff Jiang

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Date Original

2000

Object Description

1 PDF file (78 leaves)

Language

en

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application/pdf

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