The Career Fitness Program: Exercising Your Options, Seventh Edition

This best-selling book helps readers choose, change, or confirm career choices. It is firmly focused on today's career realities and the economy, encouraging change and growth for people of all ages, and from all backgrounds and circumstances. Every section is filled with positive yet practical discussions and real-life examples of resources and techniques. Following the standard sequence of career search and decision-making issues—Self-Assessment, the Job Market, Decision-Making, and the Job Search—this book emphasizes the importance of attitude in the process, showing readers how to weave individual concepts and techniques into personalized, doable, take-action plans. An excellent resource for anyone seeking employment, changing careers, or deciding upon career options; as well as job-placement professionals.

What makes The Career Fitness Program the best-selling undergraduate textbook for career development?

The Career Fitness Program has guided thousands of students through the critical processes of self-assessment, career exploration, and job search. Noted for its thorough coverage, The Career Fitness Program offers students practical advice and information coupled with hands-on activities, exercises, charts, and graphs.

Proven strengths include:

• Offers comprehensive treatment of personal assessment and job search/interview strategies.
• Explores the role of positive attitude, confidence, and emotional intelligence in the discovery process.
• Connects skills with the SCANS Report.
• Explains how electronic resources are helpful in the career process.
• Offers practical, concrete help with goal setting and decision making.
• Investigates the world of work as it relates to job seekers and current statistics related to workplace trends.

New and expanded features include:

• Real-life stories in each chapter with critical thinking questions help readers link the concepts to their own lives.
• Facts and figures are made relevant to students through reflective questions.
• Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/sukiennik has been expanded and reinforces the chapter concepts.
• 26-part Career Telecourse is available through RMI Media.
• Success strategies are featured in every chapter.