Career Focus: Pearson New International Edition - Softcover

Lamarre, Helene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292039477 ISBN 13: 9781292039473

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited

Synopsis

Appropriate as a guide book for college or professional career development courses, including Career Development. In this Third Edition of Career Focus: A Personal Job Search Guide, students will be introduced to the world of personal assessment, personal marketing, and job search know-how. A new focus for the third edition is self-marketing. By using this comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide, students will gain a clearer focus on their own abilities, their career desires, and goals for the future. Readers of this book will learn how to launch their own personal marketing campaign, and how to develop the all-important tools necessary for a successful job search in this competitive and often complex world. In addition, students will understand what it takes to be successful after they get the job.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Designed for the busy reader of today, this book has one objective - to help students find a satisfying career.  Career Focus begins with chapters on personal assessment and self-marketing, followed by three full chapters on the interview process.  It concludes with a section on how to achieve success in the workplace.  This edition considers the ever-changing marketplace and examines the increased use of technology in the job search process.

Features in this revision include:

• New, comprehensive chapter on portfolios(Chapter 7)
• Discussion of employee-desired traits
• Inviting design and layout

 

About the Author:

Helen Martucci Lamarre has successfully assisted job seekers for more than 20 years.  As a senior professor, she has developed curricula and taught courses in career development and business communications to thousands of students who have attained an average placement rate of 97 percent.  She is a distinguished professor, recognized for her creativity and academic contributions. 

As a successful speaker, she has delivered numerous presentations to educational, civic, and private groups on career development and business communications topics.  She also advises and coaches private clients in their personal job searches.

As an author, she has completed five books covering personal marketings, job search techniques, and career portfolios published in both the United States and Canada.

She is a member of the Association for Business Communication and the Midwest Association of Colleges and Employers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• ISBN 10: 1292039477
• ISBN 13: 9781292039473
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3