Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future - Softcover

Sears, Susan J.; Gordon, Virginia N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137808003 ISBN 13: 9780137808007

Publisher: 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.

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Review

NACADA member review of this publication has been posted to the NACADA Journal Web site.  Find the review of the following posted on the Journal’s Web site:

• 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

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: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0137808003
• ISBN 13: 9780137808007
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176