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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.

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  • Building your career: A guide to your future (4th Edition) by Susan Jones Sears & Virginia N. Gordon. Reviewed by Holly Martin at http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Journal/bkrev_1273.htm

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

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  • PublisherPearson
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0137768087
  • ISBN 13 9780137768080
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages160

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