Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future - Softcover

Sears, Susan Jones; Gordon, Virginia N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137808003 ISBN 13: 9780137808007

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1997

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.

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From the Back Cover

Future-oriented, this practical self-help guide shows how to get a career going on the right track, stressing the need for systematic planning and presenting readers with an effective model for planning and decision making. Built around a framework of valuable exercises and models, it offers thorough 'sum-it-all-up' worksheets which pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions, and even moves beyond the job search to discuss ethics and effectiveness in the workplace.'My Career and Life Planning Checklist' helps users pinpoint knowledge and skills necessary to effectively plan their career; 'Individual Career Plans #1 and #2' models help to integrate information about oneself in a composite self-portrait; and a unique 'Decision Making Model' discusses the decision maker, the decision situation, and the decision making process. It emphasizes the influence of family background and other environmental factors as an important part of career planning and decision making, and offers an eye-opening discussion of the work knowledge and skills people will need to succeed in the 21st Century. For anyone interested in developing their career.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137808003
• ISBN 13: 9780137808007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 179