| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Acknowledgments | |
| |
| |
| |
| Understanding the New Career | |
| |
| |
| Three Career Cases | |
| |
| |
| The Barnes Family | |
| |
| |
| Helen Casey | |
| |
| |
| The Smith Family | |
| |
| |
| The Changing Landscape of Careers | |
| |
| |
| The Changing Nature of Families | |
| |
| |
| The New Careers | |
| |
| |
| Our Career and Work-Life Model | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Self-Assessment Process | |
| |
| |
| The Basic Areas of Self-Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Reflecting on the Past | |
| |
| |
| Identity as a Core Competence | |
| |
| |
| Clarifying Your Values | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Your Interests and Passions | |
| |
| |
| Lifestyle | |
| |
| |
| Understanding Life Goals and Personal Vision | |
| |
| |
| Skills Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Integrating Your Self-Assessment and Developing Implications | |
| |
| |
| Integrating Your Self-Assessment | |
| |
| |
| Developing Themes from Your Data | |
| |
| |
| |
| Coding Your Data | |
| |
| |
| |
| Grouping Your Data | |
| |
| |
| |
| Assigning Tentative Themes | |
| |
| |
| |
| Constructing the Final Themes With Supporting Data | |
| |
| |
| Sample Themes | |
| |
| |
| Developing Career and Work-Life Implications | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Finding Ideal Work | |
| |
| |
| Job Loss | |
| |
| |
| Assessing the Labor Market | |
| |
| |
| Identifying the Right Opportunities for You | |
| |
| |
| Job Search Tools | |
| |
| |
| References | |
| |
| |
| R�sum�s | |
| |
| |
| Starting a Professional Portfolio | |
| |
| |
| Cover Letters | |
| |
| |
| Conducting the Job Search | |
| |
| |
| Networking and the Job Search | |
| |
| |
| Informational Interviews | |
| |
| |
| Guidelines for Conducting an Informational Interview | |
| |
| |
| Questions to Ask | |
| |
| |
| Identifying the Ideal Employer | |
| |
| |
| Special Challenges and Tips for International Students Who Want to Work in the United States | |
| |
| |
| Career Decision-Making | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Career Development Strategies | |
| |
| |
| Organizational Career Paths | |
| |
| |
| From Career Ladders to Career Lattices | |
| |
| |
| Vertical Careers and Organizational Advancement | |
| |
| |
| Managing Up | |
| |
| |
| Alternative Career Paths-Salzman's Typology | |
| |
| |
| Backtrackers | |
| |
| |
| Plateauers | |
| |
| |
| Career Shifters | |
| |
| |
| Self-Employers | |
| |
| |
| Urban Escapees | |
| |
| |
| The Portfolio Career | |
| |
| |
| Ongoing Development | |
| |
| |
| Organizational Career Systems | |
| |
| |
| International Assignments | |
| |
| |
| Financial Considerations | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Work and Family | |
| |
| |
| Men and Women, Families and Work | |
| |
| |
| Dual-Career Couples | |
| |
| |
| Dual-Career Families | |
| |
| |
| Sources of Stress | |
| |
| |
| Role Conflict | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Workplace Flexibility | |
| |
| |
| Flexible Work Arrangements | |
| |
| |
| Flextime | |
| |
| |
| Compressed Work Week | |
| |
| |
| Part-Time and Reduced-Load Work | |
| |
| |
| Job Sharing | |
| |
| |
| Telecommuting | |
| |
| |
| Leaves | |
| |
| |
| Sabbaticals | |
| |
| |
| Other Elements of the Family-Friendly Workplace | |
| |
| |
| The Family-Friendly Workplace Culture | |
| |
| |
| The Dark Side of Flexible Work Arrangements | |
| |
| |
| Summary | |
| |
| |
| |
| Career Development Over the Lifespan | |
| |
| |
| Lifespan Development: Are Career and Life Stages Still Relevant Today? | |
| |
| |
| Adult Life Stages | |
| |
| |
| Gender and Life Stages | |
| |
| |
| A New Model for Middle and Later Years: Learning Cycles | |
| |
| |
| The Second (or Third or Fourth) Career | |
| |
| |
| Protean Career and Older Workers | |
| |
| |
| How Do We Tap the Potential of Older Workers? | |
| |
| |
| Use Developmental Relationships | |
| |
| |
| Opt for New and Varied Job Experience | |
| |
| |
| Improve Person--Job Brokering | |
| |
| |
| Use Information Technology | |
| |
| |
| Retirement | |
| |
| |
| How Do I Want to Design My Life for the Thir Phase? | |
| |
| |
| Financial Planning and Careers in Later Life | |
| |
| |
| Summarizing Careers Over the Lifespan | |
| |
| |
| Book Summary | |
| |
| |
| Appendix: Standards of Excellence Index | |
| |
| |
| Bibliography | |
| |
| |
| Index | |
| |
| |
| About the Authors | |