Investigating Your Career

Name: Investigating Your Career
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ISBN: 9780538444767

ISBN-10: 0538444762

ISBN-13: 9780538444767

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Ann K. Jordan, Lynne T. Whaley

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Would you like a text that gives you the opportunity to direct your attention toward an area of interest that might develop into a career path and helps you identify high school and college course offerings related to your career choices? INVESTIGATING YOUR CAREER 2E is the perfect solution. This revised career exploration text uniquely focuses on your individual PATH to success: your Passions, Attitude, Talents, and Heart, as career possibilities are explored. You will learn critical success skills such as how to budget your money, the value and misuse of credit, and how to manage your time. Focusing education on the future, the U.S. Office of Education has grouped careers into 16 clusters…

Book details

List price: $98.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cengage South-Western
Publication date: 4/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Ann Jordan has served as the Career Development Manager for the Great Oaks Institute of Technology & Career Development, where she supervised the K-12 Career Development program. In this capacity, she oversaw career development programs for over 115,000 K-12 students across 36 school districts. Currently, Ann works as a career development consultant for various organizations and school districts in Southwest Ohio. Ann is the co-author of Communicating for Success and Discovering Your Career.




Getting Ready



Preparing Your Path to Success


Career Expectations


Job-Occupation-Career


Your PAT*H to Success


Why Plan Now?


Planning for Career Success


Succeed through Career Planning


Assessment



Influences on Career Choices


Influence


People Who Influence Career Decisions


Environmental Influences on Career Decisions


Influence of Values on Career Decisions


Assessment



Understanding Yourself


Learning about Yourself


Formal Assessments


Informal Assessment Experiences


Assessment



Narrowing the Choices



Looking into the Future


Futurecasting


Changes in Career Fields


Trends in Career Fields


Futurecasting Revisited


Assessment



Understanding Future Careers


Millennials


Workforce Diversity


Nontraditional Employment


Global Career Opportunities


Assessment



Your Internal Career Design


Understand That You Need to Decide Now


The Decision-Making Process


Identify the Benefits of a Good Career Decision


Consider All Possible Career Decisions


Make a Decision to Create Your Internal Career Design


Create a Plan


Monitor the Success of Your Decision


Assessment



Planning



Setting Goals


Self-Motivation


Reaching Your Goals


Your Action Plans


Roadblocks


Budgeting


Managing Your Time


Assessment



Career Preparation Choices


Finding the Right Path


Education and Training Options


Planning Your Path


Assessment



From Here to Your Career


Find Your Career Preparation Path


Choose Your Education/Training Path


Begin Implementing Your Career Plan


Assessment



Succeeding in a Career


Adjusting to a Workplace


What Employers Want


Important Employee Characteristics


Roadblocks to Career Growth


Assessment



Teamwork


The Team Concept


Building a Team


How Teams Function


Managing Conflict


Assessment



Understanding the Workplace


Employment Laws


Employment Forms


Withholdings


Types of Employment


Employer Expectations


Assessment



Creating Tools for the Future



Searching for a Job


Setting Your Job Search Goals


Researching Industries and Employers


Managing Your Job Search


Making a Choice


Assessment



Applying for a Job


Completing a Personal Fact Sheet


Writing Effective Resumes


Working with References


Writing Cover Letters


Filling Out Job Applications


Understanding Types of Preemployment Tests


Assessment



Interviewing for a Job


The Interview Process


Preparing for Interviews


Before Each Interview


The Interview


After the Interview


Assessment


Glossary


Index