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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 | |