Turning Points: Your Career Decision-Making Guide - Softcover

Ducat, Diane Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130421901 ISBN 13: 9780130421906

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2001

Synopsis

Helping readers take charge of their professional future, this action-oriented handbook covers what every individual needs to know about making career choices, searching for suitable internships and jobs, and succeeding in the workplace of the 21st century. Putting numerous activities for self-assessment and research at the heart of the text, it builds upon a sound theoretical framework that focuses on three major areas corresponding to three essential tasks-1) searching for information (exploration); 2) setting your career direction (specification) and; 3) making your work experience count (implementation). This career resource provides guidelines for exploring career options, identifying individual personality values, interests and skills, gathering information about careers, four-year colleges and graduate schools, selecting a major, making a job choice, make work experience count and developing a career network. For individuals interested in developing a career plan.

About this title

About the Author

Diane Ducat is a psychologist who has worked with college students for more than 25 years. Dr. Ducat is a professor at LaGuardia Community College in New York City, where she was a counselor before joining the faculty of LaGuardia's nationally acclaimed internship program.

Dr. Ducat has taught graduate courses in career counseling and has investigated managerial careers as a member of several interdisciplinary research teams. Her consulting activities center on executive coaching. She holds a master's degree in counselor education from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Columbia University.

From the Back Cover

Turning Points is a comprehensive, practical resource that covers self-assessment, career exploration, job search, and success in the workplace. Student profiles illustrate each topic along the way.

Students and instructors who used the first edition praise the following features:

• Coverage of Holland, Campbell, and Myers-Briggs self-assessment tools
• Use of the four-step ASAP (Ask-Search-Analyze-Plan) research method for gathering information
• A decision-making style that combines "listening to your heart" and "using your head"
• Treatment of decisions about further education as an integral part of the career-planning process

With every chapter updated, the second edition provides additional features, including:

• O'Net basic skills and a unique 88-item portable skills self-test
• A completely revised chapter with effective strategies for professional development during internships, college jobs, and extracurricular activities
• An updated chapter that shares experts' tips for managing your career during a time of rapid technological change
• Expanded coverage of electronic resumes, online job banks, and other job/internship search tools
• New and restructured activities designed to help readers use and evacuate career-related Web sites
• A section on implementing career decisions, accompanied by a related hands-on activity

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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 College Div
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130421901
• ISBN 13: 9780130421906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 353