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This premier career decision guide turns theory into practice with step-by-step exercises and thought-provoking activities. The detailed and systematic exercises in
Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future, Third Edition, will help you:
- create an individual career plan that integrates information about your interests, personality, values, and abilities
- discover how environment and family background influence your work-related decisions
- investigate career clusters and broad areas of interest before focusing on specific job titles in tomorrow's workplace
- gain a psychological edge and become effective by developing skills demanded by today's employers
- prepare resumes and practice job interviews so that you'll feel confident and ready for a successful job search
This book's structured approach to decision making allows you to thoroughly explore your options and begin building the career of your choosing.
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Synopsis
This unique hands-on workbook equips readers with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to make effective educational and career decisions. Using a wide variety of exercises and innovative worksheets, users pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions, and use this self-information to explore relevant occupational clusters that are presented in terms of both a current and future-oriented workplace. The workbook moves readers systematically through a decision-making cycle of Awareness, Exploration, Choice, and Commitment. Getting Ready. What Do I Need to Know About Myself? What Do I Need to Know About Occupational Alternatives? What Do I Need to Know About Educational Alternatives? How Will I Decide? How Will I Gain a Psychological Edge? How Will I Advance My Career? The Job Search and Resume Writing. Am I the Best Candidate? Job Leads and the Job Interview. Where Do I Go from Here? For anyone involved in, or contemplating, an educational or career decision.