Hired! The Job-Hunting/Career-Planning Guide (3rd Edition)

Michael Stebleton, Mike Henle, Connie Harris

ISBN 10: 0131149652 / ISBN 13: 9780131149656

Published by Prentice Hall, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hired! The Job-Hunting/Career-Planning Guide (3rd Edition)
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131149652
• ISBN 13: 9780131149656
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Hired! is a practical, life-career planning guide designed to reach a variety of audiences. It is a resource that can be used in life-career decision making courses in any setting. This edition enables readers to actively explore how to thrive in today’s fluid and dynamic working environments. Unlike other books, Hired! focuses on helping readers develop an ongoing, flexible portfolio of information about themselves and work in order to prepare them for satisfying and productive lives in an ever-changing world. The exercises and writing activities encourage readers to take a proactive role in creating their futures, motivating them to become personally responsible for their life and to become an active participant in its process. This third edition focuses on the changing nature of work–including trends in the marketplace and a turbulent post 9/11 world. Other main topics include portfolio development, resume writing, and developing decision-making, job search, self-assessment, and interview skills. For training professionals, facilitators, and others in business, industry, and nonprofit organizations.

From the Back Cover

Offer your students s streamlined career development handbook that meets the diverse needs of your audience in various settings, with a holistic approach to career-life planning.  Within its pages you will find...

• Updated examples of job search tools
• Revised chapter on portfolio development
• Action steps for each chapter
• Focus on diversity issues and working in a global economy

As a student taking a career development course, or a career seeker actively looking for placement...

This goal-oriented text shows you that career choice is not a single event but a life-long process.  Individuals are in charge of their careers and their success - which is empowering!  Through practical application and personalized theory, the third edition of HIRED! helps you discover your own career philosophy.  Students and career seekers alike are taught how to develop an ongoing, flexible portfolio of information about themselves and their work to prepare them for satisfying and productive lives in an ever-changing world.

 

Additional Support - in and out of the classroom...

For instructors and students alike, we encourage you to visit our Student Success Supersite.  This valuable resource is at www.prenhall.com/success.

 

Features include:

• Majors Exploration
• Career Advice
• Web Links
• Tips from Successful Students
• Student Bulletin Boards
• Faculty Resources