Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future [Paperback]

Susan Jones Sears (Author), Virginia Gordon (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0137808003 | ISBN-13: 978-0137808007 | Publication Date: November 3, 1997 | Edition: 2 Sub

This unique hands-on workbook equips readers with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to make effective educational and career decisions. Using a wide variety of exercises and innovative worksheets, users pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions, and use this self-information to explore relevant occupational clusters that are presented in terms of both a current and future-oriented workplace. The workbook moves readers systematically through a decision-making cycle of Awareness, Exploration, Choice, and Commitment. Getting Ready. What Do I Need to Know About Myself? What Do I Need to Know About Occupational Alternatives? What Do I Need to Know About Educational Alternatives? How Will I Decide? How Will I Gain a Psychological Edge? How Will I Advance My Career? The Job Search and Resume Writing. Am I the Best Candidate? Job Leads and the Job Interview. Where Do I Go from Here? For anyone involved in, or contemplating, an educational or career decision.

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Editorial Reviews

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

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Future-oriented, this practical self-help guide shows how to get a career going on the right track, stressing the need for systematic planning and presenting readers 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.'My Career and Life Planning Checklist' helps users pinpoint knowledge and skills necessary to effectively plan their career; 'Individual Career Plans #1 and #2' models help to integrate information about oneself in a composite self-portrait; and a unique 'Decision Making Model' discusses the decision maker, the decision situation, and the decision making process. It emphasizes the influence of family background and other environmental factors as an important part of career planning and decision making, and offers an eye-opening discussion of the work knowledge and skills people will need to succeed in the 21st Century. For anyone interested in developing their career.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 Sub edition (November 3, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137808003
• ISBN-13: 978-0137808007
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,850,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Haven't read the book!, August 23, 2011

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This review is from: Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future (4th Edition) (Paperback)

I ordered this book and others for my daughter's college class. She just began her classes this week. But, the book arrived in perfect condition as promised.