You Majored in What? Designing Your Path from College to Career

Name: You Majored in What? Designing Your Path from College to Career
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ISBN: 9780452296008

ISBN-10: 0452296005

ISBN-13: 9780452296008

Edition: 2010

Authors: Katharine Brooks

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With the job market in flux, young people face The Question: what are you going to do with that major? In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks provides a road map for twenty-somethings, replacing obsolete thinking that "major = career," and instead using positive psychology, mapping techniques, and experimental wanderings to help job seekers reframe their skills. Brooks provides effective strategies to help readers mine their academic and life experiences for new insights into landing jobs with the best employers, and finding alternatives when the situation calls for a Plan B. You Majored in What?offers a practical and proven approach to reframing experiences, discovering…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.45" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




A Butterfly Flaps its Wings and you Find a Job: Chaos and Your Career Plans



Connecting the Dots: Uncovering the Power of Your Wanderings



Mental Wanderings: Your Mind Can Take You Anywhere or Nowhere



Wandering Beyond Majors and Minors: Make Your Education Relevant to Any Employer



Why Settle For One Career When You Can Have Ten?: The Wise Wanderer Explores the Future



Even Wanderers Make Plans: Where Are You Now and Where Do You Want to Go?



Paging Dr. Frankenstein: Experimental Wanderings with Big Payoffs



My Job as a Krackel Bar: Creating Irresistible Rï¿½sumï¿½s That Will Get You the Interview



Channeling Jane Austen: Writing That Will Get You Hired



Wandering Into the Workplace: Interviewing and Impressing



Wandering After Graduation: You Mean the Chaos Continues?


Appendix: Dreams Deferred, Delayed, or Denied: The Reluctant Wanderer


Acknowledgments


References and Resources


Web Sites and Blogs for Job Seekers


Index