Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future - Softcover

Sears

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137768087 ISBN 13: 9780137768080

Publisher: Gorsuch Scarisbrick Pub, 1995

Synopsis

This premier career decision guide turns theory into practice with step-by-step exercises and thought-provoking activities. The detailed and systematic exercises in Building Your A Guide to Your Future, Third Edition, will help create an individual career plan that integrates information about your interests, personality, values, and abilities discover how environment and family background influence your work-related decisions investigate career clusters and broad areas of interest before focusing on specific job titles in tomorrow's workplace gain a psychological edge and become effective by developing skills demanded by today's employers prepare resumes and practice job interviews so that you'll feel confident and ready for a successful job search This book's structured approach to decision making allows you to thoroughly explore your options and begin building the career of your choosing.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The fourth edition of Building Your Career a ctively engages students in a new career decision-making model that involves reflecting, exploring, deciding and preparing for their immediate and long-term futures. Students progress through a process that uses the Internet and other hands-on activities to discover how their interests and strengths are compatible with the possible occupational and educational alternatives that they identify. Students also learn how to mount a job search and determine their readiness for the changing work world and the skills needed to succeed in the jobs of tomorrow.

 

New features include:

• Students use the time-tested U.S. Department of Labor's system, O'Net, in addition to workbook activities to assess their personal interests, personality, values, and skills. (Ex. CH. 2).
• Occupations are identified and detailed information is gathered about each through the O'Net system. (Ex. CH. 3).
• Encourages students to think about how the academic and other decisions they make in college have a direct impact on how prepared they are for the day after graduation. (Ex. CH. 6). 

For more information visit www.pearsonhighered.com/studentsuccess

 

Support – in and out of the classroom...

 

In addition to an Instructor's manual with Test Bank, this text may also be accompanied upon request by a rich resource for students: 

 

Start strong. Finish stronger.

 

www.MyStudentSuccessLab.com

 

About the Author

Dr. Susan Jones Sears, an education and career consultant, was a faculty member in counselor education at The Ohio State University for 25 years. Her consulting and research focus is in career and college student counseling.

 

Dr. Virginia N. Gordon has extensive experience in teaching, administration, advising and counseling in higher education settings. She has written extensively on topics associated with higher education including academic and career counseling.

 

Drs. Sears and Gordon also wrote "Selecting A College Major," published in 2010 by Prentice-Hall.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gorsuch Scarisbrick Pub
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137768087
• ISBN 13: 9780137768080
• Binding: Paperback