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Preface	p. ix
Getting Ready	p. 1
How Do People Choose Careers?	p. 1
Role Inventory	p. 2
Why Do I Need to Plan?	p. 2
Career Choice Barriers	p. 3
Additional Barriers	p. 3
Overcoming Barriers	p. 4
Why Do People Work?	p. 4
My Concept of Work	p. 5
What is a Career?	p. 6
The Career Choice Process: Where Do I Start?	p. 6
My Place in the Career-Planning Process	p. 9
My Career- and Life-Planning Checklist	p. 9
Summary Checklist	p. 12
What Do I Need to Know About Myself?	p. 13
Exploring Self	p. 13
Holland's Types	p. 14
Personality Types	p. 17
Exploring Career Interests	p. 20
Exploring Life Values	p. 23
Exploring Work Values	p. 24
Exploring My Aptitudes	p. 25
Exploring Skills	p. 28
Identifying My Skills via My Achievements	p. 30
How Does My Environment Influence My Career Choices?	p. 31
A Career Genogram	p. 32
What If?	p. 35
Occupational Options	p. 36
Individual Career Plan #1	p. 38
Individual Career Plan #2	p. 39
Summary Checklist	p. 40
What Do I Need to Know About Occupational Alternatives?	p. 41
Sources of Occupational Information	p. 42
Evaluating Occupational Information	p. 44
Workforce Trends in the Next Decade	p. 45
Occupational "Supply and Demand"	p. 48
Profiles of Fast-Growing Occupational Groups	p. 51
Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook	p. 54
Individual Career Plan #1	p. 55
Informational Interview	p. 57
Summary Checklist	p. 60
What Do I Need to Know About Educational Alternatives?	p. 61
Choosing an Educational Direction	p. 62
What Type of Education Do I Need?	p. 62
Why Attend College?	p. 63
Why Am I in College?	p. 63
Making Initial Decisions	p. 63
The Undergraduate Curriculum	p. 64
Choosing A Major	p. 65
Matching My Interests and Abilities with Majors	p. 66
Researching a Major	p. 71
Graduate or Professional Education	p. 74
Experiential Learning	p. 75
Summary Checklist	p. 78
How Will I Decide?	p. 79
How I Make Decisions	p. 79
My Career Lifeline	p. 80
Dimensions of Decision Making	p. 82
Myself as Decision Maker	p. 82
Identifying My Values	p. 83
Using My Career Values in Decision Making	p. 83
Myself as a Risk Taker	p. 84
My Decision-Making Style	p. 86
The Decision Situation	p. 86
Checklist of Obstacles	p. 87
The Decision-Making Process	p. 88
What Are My Goals?	p. 90
Identifying Alternatives	p. 91
Why Some People Don't Act on Their Decisions	p. 93
Action Plan	p. 94
Making Decisions	p. 95
	p. 96
How Do I Prepare for Tomorrow's Work World?	p. 97
Moving Into the Twenty-First Century	p. 97
How Will These General Trends Affect Me?	p. 98
Beyond Workplace 2000	p. 99
How Workforce Trends Will Affect Me	p. 101
Work Skills in the Twenty-First Century	p. 101
Assessing My Work Skills	p. 103
Ethical Behavior in the Workplace	p. 107
Making Ethical Choices	p. 108
Identifying Unethical Behaviors	p. 109
Summary Checklist	p. 110
How Will I Gain a Psychological Edge?	p. 111
Becoming Personally Effective	p. 111
Establishing Positive Patterns of Behavior	p. 113
Assessing My Own Development	p. 115
Other Strategies to Improve Personal Effectiveness	p. 116
Improving My Communication Skills	p. 118
Identifying Stressors in My Life	p. 120
Learning to Relax	p. 122
Is My Thinking Distorted?	p. 123
Changing My Negative Self-Statements	p. 124
Peak Effectiveness Checklist	p. 125
Summary Checklist	p. 126
How Will I Advance My Career? The Job Search and Resume Writing	p. 121
Starting Early	p. 122
What Can First-Year Students Do?	p. 122
What Can Sophomores Do?	p. 122
What Can Juniors Do?	p. 123
What Can Seniors Do?	p. 123
Writing a Resume	p. 124
Sample Resumes	p. 139
Cover Letters	p. 144
Sample Cover Letters	p. 145
Am I the Best Candidate? Job Leads and the Job Interview	p. 149
Generating Job Leads	p. 149
Mentoring and My Career	p. 151
Job Interviewing	p. 152
Dealing with Rejection	p. 157
Summary	p. 158
Summary Checklist	p. 158
Where Do I Go from Here?	p. 159
	p. 160
	p. 160
	p. 162
My Career- and Life-Planning Checklist Revisited: What Have I Accomplished?	p. 162
Appendix	p. 167
References	p. 175
Index	p. 177
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