title: Employment training for disadvantaged or dependent populations.
abstract: The vocational rehabilitation process is viewed as having two dominant work-related components: the actual work-training experience and employability skills. The paper argues that both components are critical and must be integrated. The major role of the vocational rehabilitation agency is viewed as that of provider of employability (or job-seeking) skills programs. These programs consist of: (1) employability skills courses, (2) work performance demand standard setting, and (3) on-the-job rotational task schemes. Actual work skills can only be provided in the "real world" of work. Centralized work-training programs are viewed as creating inappropriate socialization and only moderately transferable skills.
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D007557:Israel; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D014937:Work