Connect to Your Career - Softcover

Thibodeaux, Suzann; Jaehne, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1619609061 ISBN 13: 9781619609068

Publisher: Goodheart-Willcox, 2014

Synopsis

Connect to Your Career presents a nontraditional approach to the career-search process. Focusing on proven strategies that use technology as a tool, students will learn how to use the Internet to navigate through the myriad of career opportunities that await them.
ˇ Establish social media accounts to create an online identity and learn how to protect it.
ˇ Create a personal portfolio to use while exploring career opportunities.
ˇ Build a personal brand.
ˇ Design an infographic résumé that will capture the eye of employers.
ˇ Implement a Sunday Evening Plan to help stay on top of career opportunities.
ˇ Prepare to take certification exams by answering practice questions.
ˇ Develop a professional network as support in the job-search process.
ˇ Apply for jobs online and in-person while managing career-search activities.

About this title

About the Author:

Suzann Connell teaches communications and English courses for the University of Phoenix in both online and in-class settings. Part of her curricula is to teach career-related techniques, professional communication writing, media writing, podcasting, and blog writing. She enjoys a dual career with e-learning and instructional design and development and has created hundreds of corporate e-learning classes in a variety of topics. Suzann holds a master degree in education technology from Pepperdine University and a bachelor degree in training, design, and development from the University of Michigan. 
 
Julie Jaehne has been an adjunct faculty member at the College of Education at the University of Houston for 21 years. She has taught courses in the instructional technology department and teacher certification courses through the distance learning department. Julie has extensive experience with the use of technology in K–12 instruction and has written multiple computer application textbooks and tutorials. She has developed and conducted workshops on a variety of classroom technology-related topics. Julie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and a master degree with a concentration in occupational education from the University of Houston.

 

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Goodheart-Willcox
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1619609061
• ISBN 13: 9781619609068
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240