Career by Design: Communicating Your Way to Success - Softcover

Hanna, Sharon; Radtke, Doug; Suggett, Rose

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9780132330909: Career by Design: Communicating Your Way to Success

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ISBN 10: 0132330903 ISBN 13: 9780132330909

Publisher: Pearson, 2007

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Looking for a book to lead readers through an entire career life? This book was developed to provide learners with opportunities to gain insight into the self and how that impacts career development. Readers are also taught how to explore current and future career paths, develop positive relationships, and handle challenges in the workplace. By enhancing communication and interpersonal skills learners will have opportunities to grow both personally and professionally. Exceptionally readable, well-illustrated, and based on current research, the fourth edition of this unique presentation of career development techniques and skills emphasizes the necessity of “designing” a successful career. It inspires students to think creatively and critically rather than just engage in a one-way job hunt.

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Career by Design is known for its focus on creative and practical communication skills. Drawing on the authors' expertise in human relations, this text helps students understand the importance of interpersonal skills in designing one's optimal career. Career by Design shows students how to explore and examine their personal potential for specific career options, to develop positive relationships, and to learn how to navigate stressful challenges in the workplace and achieve success and balance.

This book will lead readers through an entire career life, beginning with the importance of developing an educational/career plan. By reading this book and completing activities at the end of each chapter, students will grow both personally and professionally by enhancing interpersonal skills, which are critical to career success.

Features include:

Examples of online resumes — highlight the most current trend in job-seeking skills.
Link to Gallup Strengthfinder — provides students an opportunity to explore their strengths, leadership style, and careers best suited for them.
Self-Reflection Activities — help students to apply what they have learned to their own life.

Additional Support — in and out of the classroom...

Career By Design now has its own Companion Website designed to help students review the text material. This site (www.prenhall.com/hanna) can also be accessed through the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources.

To view the website that accompanies this text, please go to http://www.prenhall.com/hanna.

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About the Author:

Sharon Hanna was a lifelong educator, having taught in Nebraska, New Jersey, and Illinois. She received both faculty achievement and outstanding teacher awards during her career. Her research on the strengths of stepfamilies was published in academic journals, and she served as national president of the Stepfamily Association of America. She authored the first three editions of Career by Design published by Prentice Hall.

Dr. Doug Radtke has been an educator for the past 37 years. Currently he is a high school administrator. He has taught secondary students, undergraduate students and graduate-level students. He has published several articles in professional journals on a variety of topics and has been a speaker at several regional, national, and international conferences. He is co-author of Person to Person: Positive Relationships Don’t Just Happen, Fifth Edition, published by Prentice Hall.

Dr. Rose Suggett is chair of Social Sciences, Academic Education, at Southeast Community College. She has received numerous award for teaching and research. Her research on the impact of divorce on children has been presented nationally and internationally. She is co-author of Person to Person: Positive Relationships Don’t Just Happen, Fifth Edition, published by Prentice Hall.

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