Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future - Couverture souple

Sears, Susan J.; Gordon, Virginia N.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0137808003 ISBN 13 : 9780137808007

Editeur : Pearson, 1997

Synopsis

A text no undergraduate should be without, this practical self-help guide shows how to get a career going on the right track, stressing the need for systematic planning and presenting students with an effective model for planning and decision making. Built around a framework of valuable exercises and models, it offers thorough "sum-it-all-up" worksheets which pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions, and even moves beyond the job search to discuss ethics and effectiveness in the workplace.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

The fourth edition of Building Your Career actively engages students in a new career decision-making model that involves reflecting, exploring, deciding and preparing for their immediate and long-term futures. Students progress through a process that uses the Internet and other hands-on activities to discover how their interests and strengths are compatible with the possible occupational and educational alternatives that they identify. Students also learn how to mount a job search and determine their readiness for the changing work world and the skills needed to succeed in the jobs of tomorrow.

 

New features include:

• Students use the time-tested U.S. Department of Labor's system, O'Net, in addition to workbook activities to assess their personal interests, personality, values, and skills. (Ex. CH. 2).
• Occupations are identified and detailed information is gathered about each through the O'Net system. (Ex. CH. 3).
• Encourages students to think about how the academic and other decisions they make in college have a direct impact on how prepared they are for the day after graduation. (Ex. CH. 6). 

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Support – in and out of the classroom…

 

In addition to an Instructor's manual with Test Bank, this text may also be accompanied upon request by a rich resource for students: 

 

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www.MyStudentSuccessLab.com

 

Quatrième de couverture

This premier career decision guide turns theory into practice with step-by-step exercises and thought-provoking activities. The detailed and systematic exercises in Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future, Third Edition, will help you:

• create an individual career plan that integrates information about your interests, personality, values, and abilities
• discover how environment and family background influence your work-related decisions
• investigate career clusters and broad areas of interest before focusing on specific job titles in tomorrow's workplace
• gain a psychological edge and become effective by developing skills demanded by today's employers
• prepare resumes and practice job interviews so that you'll feel confident and ready for a successful job search

This book's structured approach to decision making allows you to thoroughly explore your options and begin building the career of your choosing.

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Features include:

• Majors Exploration
• Career Advice
• Web Links
• Tips from Successful Students
• Student Bulletin Boards
• Faculty Resources

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0137808003
• ISBN 13: 9780137808007
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible