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

A text no undergraduate should be without, this practical self-help guide shows how to get a career going on the right track, stressing the need for systematic planning and presenting students 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.

About this title

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.

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