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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A Letter to You | |
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| The Process | |
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| Stages and Steps | |
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| The Career Search Guide | |
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| Self-Assessment | |
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| Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting You | |
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| Success Is Everybody's Dream | |
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| Success Defined | |
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| Clarifying Needs, Wants, and Values Leads to Successful Goals | |
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| Basic Needs Relate to Our Survival | |
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| Needs Relate to Wants | |
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| Needs and Wants Relate to Feelings and Shoulds | |
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| Needs and Wants Relate to Values | |
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| Values Act As Motivators for Decisions | |
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| Personal Growth | |
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| Beyond Needs and Wants | |
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| The Work Ethic: A Personal Philosophic View | |
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| Just a Job, or a Career? | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Group Discussion Questions | |
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| Personality and Performance: Pieces of the Puzzle | |
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| Areas of Interest: The Personality Mosaic | |
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| Personality Mosaic | |
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| Scoring Your Answers | |
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| Interpreting the Personality Mosaic | |
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| The Personality Hexagon | |
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| Dealing with Data, People, and Things | |
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| Data | |
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| People | |
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| Things | |
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| Activity Analysis | |
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| Skills | |
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| The Skills Trio | |
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| Getting an Edge on the Job Hunt Process | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| The Career Connection: Finding Your Job Satisfiers | |
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| Career Focus: Job Chart Inventory | |
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| Some Combinations and Other Considerations | |
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| Exploring the Job Chart Further | |
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| Directions: Finding Your Satisfiers | |
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| Library Research: Looking In | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Work: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities | |
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| Charting the Future: A Global Philosophic View of Work | |
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| The Time of No Time | |
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| Work Past and Present | |
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| The Global Panorama | |
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| Societal Perspectives: Challenges and Options | |
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| Economics Oversimplified | |
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| State of the Ark People: Worldwide | |
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| State of the Ark People: United States | |
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| Buy Now, Pay Later: The Consumer Society Goes Global | |
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| Energy Fires Up the Industrial/Technical World | |
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| Military Security | |
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| Economy Meets the Environment | |
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| Our Basic Needs | |
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| Options Banish Gloom and Doom | |
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| Sustainable Systems Defined | |
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| How Do They Work? | |
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| Hope on the Economic Horizon: Business As Unusual | |
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| Microlending: An Idea Whose Time Has Come | |
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| The Real Economy | |
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| The Ethical Perspective: Time for a Change | |
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| Being Good: Ethics for a New Age | |
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| Global Consciousness: Thinking the Unthinkable, Doing the Undoable | |
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| People Power | |
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| Jobs Lost and Gained | |
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| Job Market Outlook and Opportunities: Realities and Balance | |
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| Personality Types in the Job Market | |
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| Realistic Type | |
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| Investigative Type | |
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| Artistic Type | |
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| Social Type | |
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| Enterprising Type | |
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| Conventional Type | |
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| Social-Investigative-Artistic (SIAs) and Other Combinations: The Hard Cases | |
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| Back to the Future: Job Market Outlook and Opportunities | |
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| New Paradigms | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Group Discussion Questions | |
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| Workplaces/Workstyles: Companies That Work | |
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| Seven Categories of Workplaces | |
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| Business | |
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| Industry | |
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| Education | |
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| Communication/Entertainment | |
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| Health | |
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| Government | |
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| Military | |
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| Career Ladders Large and Small | |
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| Wanted: Rewards on All Levels | |
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| Don't Overlook Benefits | |
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| Rewards of a Different Sort: The Emotional Contract | |
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| Workplace Values: Ethics 101 | |
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| Autonomy Dimensions: Who's Boss? | |
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| Workplace Diversity | |
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| Gender in the Workplace | |
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| Gender Bender: Women | |
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| Gender Bender: Men | |
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| Family, Career, or Both? Minding the Family | |
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| Child/Elder Care | |
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| Teenagers and Young Adults | |
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| The Aging Worker in the Workplace | |
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| Minorities/Immigrants/Refugees: The "Other" | |
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| The Disabled and Their Abilities | |
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| Stressed for Success | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Group Discussion Questions | |
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| Timestyles/Workstyles: Alternatives That Work | |
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| Full-Time Alternatives | |
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| The Computer Commute | |
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| Work in the In-Between | |
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| Work of One's Own--the Entrepreneur | |
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| Third-Wave Prosumers | |
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| New Views | |
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| Leisure Styles | |
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| Community | |
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| The Ins and Outs of Workplaces: Doing the Research | |
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| Information Interviewing | |
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| Work Experience | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Group Discussion Questions | |
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| The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering | |
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| Job Hunting | |
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| Networking | |
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| Box: Job Sources Available on the Internet | |
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| The Resume | |
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| Cover Letters | |
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| Letters of Reference | |
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| The Application Form | |
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| The Interview | |
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| Getting Prepared | |
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| Interview Behavior | |
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| Practice Questions | |
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| Follow-up | |
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| Job Offers: Too Many or Too Few? | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Decisions, Decisions: What's Your Next Move? | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Stay Calm | |
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| Be Persistent | |
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| Keep Your Perspective | |
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| Be Confident | |
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| Four Options | |
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| Back to School | |
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| Back to the Job Market | |
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| Same Job/New Approach | |
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| Deciding Not to Decide | |
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| Decision Making: A Four-Phase Process | |
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| Gather Information | |
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| Weigh and Brainstorm Alternatives and Outcomes | |
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| Check Values | |
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| Design Strategies | |
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| Job Hunting ... Again? Again! | |
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| The Great Gap | |
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| Change Is Here to Stay | |
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| Success: New Directions | |
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| Self-Assessment Exercises | |
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| Group Discussion Questions | |
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| Work Affects the Soul: The Final Analysis | |
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| Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting You | |
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| Personality and Job Satisfiers | |
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| Work: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities | |
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| Workplaces/Workstyles/Timestyles | |
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| The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering | |
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| Decisions, Decisions: What's Your Next Move? | |
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| Sample Resumes and Letters | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |