Career Advising: An Academic Advisor's Guide

In today's highly competitive workplace, students must be preparedto respond to the challenges of a knowledge-based economy. Whilepursuing their academic careers, students need specific informationabout career possibilities in their prospective field, ideas formounting a successful job search, an awareness of the dramaticchanges occurring in the workplace, and knowledge of the skillsneeded to be marketable.

From Virginia N. Gordon--the co-editor of the acclaimed bookAcademic Advising--comes Career Advising, a resource for academicadvisors to assist college students with the educational choicesthat will lead them to career-related decisions. This importantbook shows how academic advisors, as well as non-teaching advisors,are in ideal positions to help students understand therelationships between their academic and career choices, and theeffect these decisions have on students' future personal and worklives.

Career Advising identifies and describes the knowledge and skillsthat are required to be an effective career advisor for students.Gordon describes the 3-I Process, which clarifies the threeinteractive phases--Inquire, Inform, and Integrate--that can helpstudents identify and explore academic- and career-relatedpossibilities and make critical decisions.

This handy resource leads advisors through the maze of careerinformation sources as well as other important career-relatedresources and methods.

THE AUTHOR

Virginia N. Gordon is assistant dean emeritus and adjunct associate professor at The Ohio State University. She is the past president of the National Academic Advising Association and the founder and first director of the National Clearinghouse on Academic Advising.