Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future - Softcover

Sears, Susan J.; Gordon, Virginia N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130931055 ISBN 13: 9780130931054

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

For undergraduate courses in Career Development or Career Planning.

Designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to make effective educational and career decisions, this practical, self-help guide uses a systematic, hands-on approach that involves students in their own career search through a wide variety of exercises and innovative worksheets that pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions. Throughout, students use their self-information to explore relevant occupational clusters that are presented in terms of both a current and future-oriented workplace. It moves them systematically through a decision-making cycle of Awareness, Exploration, Choice, and Commitment. Each chapter involves students in acquiring knowledge and learning skills, while examining their attitudes, values, and behaviors.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130931055
• ISBN 13: 9780130931054
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 173