This practical guide to getting from the first semester of college to a first job teaches students not only how to explore career options, but how to broaden their horizons and build skills necessary for success in college and beyond. Carter explains how to network, write a perfect resume, prepare for interviews, and more.
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Carol Carter, a publishing-industry executive and the author of a half-dozen employment guides, believes college students who truly want to succeed after graduation must actually start preparing as soon as they begin their post-high school education. In Majoring in the Rest of Your Life, she presents a series of suggestions designed to help these students move from their often unfocused freshman years to landing the job of their dreams. Chapters deal with defining interests and goals, balancing academic and personal lives, aiming for useful extracurricular activities and part-time jobs, networking, traveling, and, eventually, sending out résumés and going on interviews. Carter certainly defines the linkage between school world and real world in a way that makes the connection click, and then provides the tools (including six appendices containing more than 50 pages of additional information and resources) that just might make it stick. --Howard Rothman
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Lots of anecdotes and inspirational advice, including a generous resource section for finding internships and matching your interests to jobs. -- Mary Beth Marklein, USA Today, June 4, 1999
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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No better guide for the directionless college student,
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This review is from: Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students (Paperback)
Teachers, do you have a student who just doesn't know what direction to take in life? Do they remind you of a boat adrift without a rudder? Carol Carter has written an excellent book aimed at that student. Majoring in the Rest of Your Life; Career Secrets for College Students, is outstanding in filling the need of providing a good overall sense of direction for the drifting college student.Many of us have been there, or know others who have been there: entering college with no clue what to major in. Or picture this scenario: a recent college graduate who has no idea where he or she will get their first job. This book seeks to deal with the situation in which those students find themselves. Carol Carter is Vice President and Publisher of Student Success and Career Development at Prentice Hall. She is particularly suited to writing this book, with unique personal qualifications based on her own experience and her work at Prentice Hall. The book walks through interest and ability inventories to help students discern strengths and weaknesses. Tips on obtaining first jobs, networking, and handling rejection are interwoven with advice on internships, time management, and resumes. Succinctly, we can't think of a better book for high school seniors and college students.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Book!,
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This review is from: Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students (Paperback)
This is one of my all time favorite career/college planning books. Along with MAJOR IN SUCCESS it is informative, while also interesting reading. The author makes the student want to continue on with the book, and the "learning" process is almost effortless. An excellent resource for all underclass college students and college-bound high school seniors. Mary Becelia, Mary Washington College Office of Career Services, Fredericksburg VA
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