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This is a practical guide to career planning and decision making that demystiﬁes the career search and presents it as an opportunity for personal growth. The book deals with every aspect of making a career choice and developing a strategy for implementing career decisions, from initial self-assessment to resume writing and interview techniques. This is the only book that helps to expand awareness of personal goals, clarify values, and identify personal strengths as each relates to the world of work.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Letter to You
1. Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting You
Success is Everybody’s Dream
Clarifying Needs, Wants, and Values Leads to Successful Goals
Personal Growth
Beyond Needs and Wants
The Work Ethic: A Personal Philosophic View
Just a Job, or a Career?
Self-Assessment Exercises
Group Discussion Questions
2. Personality and Performance: Pieces of the Puzzle
Areas of Interest: The Personality Mosaic
Dealing with Data, People, and Things
Getting an Edge on the Job Hunt Process
Self-Assessment Exercises
3. The Career Connection: Finding Your Job Satisfiers
Career Focus: Job Chart Inventory
Library Research: Looking In
Self-Assessment Exercises
4. Work: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities
Charting the Future: A Global Philosophic View of Work
Societal Perspectives: Challenges and Options
Economics Oversimplified
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Consumer Society Goes Global
Economy Meets the Environment
Options Banish Gloom and Doom
Sustainable Systems Defined
Hope on the Economic Horizon: Business as Unusual
The Ethical Perspective: Time for a Change
Global Consciousness: Thinking the Unthinkable, Doing the Undoable
Job Market Outlook and Opportunities: Realities and Balance
Personality Types in the Job Market
New Paradigms
Self-Assessment Exercises
Group Discussion Questions
5. Workplaces/Workstyles: Companies That Work
Seven Categories of Workplaces
Career Ladders Large and Small
Wanted: Rewards on All Levels
Workplace Values: Ethics 101
Autonomy Dimensions: Who’s Boss?
Workplace Diversity
Stressed for Success
Self-Assessment Exercises
Group Discussion Questions
6. Timestyles/Workstyles: Alternatives That Work
Full-Time Alternatives
The Computer Commute
Work in the In-Between
Work of One’s Own—The Entrepreneur
Information Gathering
Third-Wave Prosumers
New Views
Leisure Styles
Community
The Ins and Outs of Workplaces: Doing the Research
Information Interviewing
Work Experience
Self-Assessment Exercises
Group Discussion Questions
7. The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering
Job Hunting
Networking
The Résumé
Cover Letters
Letters of Reference
The Application Form
The Interview
Job Offers: Too Many or Too Few?
Self-Assessment Exercises
8. Decisions, Decisions: What’s Your Next Move?
Attitudes
Four Options
Decision Making: A Four-Phase Process
Job Hunting. . .Again? Again!
The Great Gap
Change Is Here to Stay
Success: New Directions
Self-Assessment Exercises
Group Discussion Questions
9. Work Affects the Soul: The Final Analysis
Chapter 1 Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting You
Chapters 2 and 3 Job Satisfiers
Chapter 4 Work: Challenges, Options, Opportunities
Chapters 5 and 6 Workplaces/Workstyles/Time Styles
Chapter 7 The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering
Chapter 8 Decisions, Decisions: What’s Your Next Move?
Notes
Appendix
Sample Résumés and Letters
Index

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Coming Alive from Nine to Five : A Career Search Handbook

Coming Alive from Nine to Five : A Career Search Handbook

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Summary

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Letter to You

1. Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting You

Success is Everybody’s Dream

Clarifying Needs, Wants, and Values Leads to Successful Goals

Personal Growth

Beyond Needs and Wants

The Work Ethic: A Personal Philosophic View

Just a Job, or a Career?

Self-Assessment Exercises

Group Discussion Questions

2. Personality and Performance: Pieces of the Puzzle

Areas of Interest: The Personality Mosaic

Dealing with Data, People, and Things

Getting an Edge on the Job Hunt Process

Self-Assessment Exercises

3. The Career Connection: Finding Your Job Satisfiers

Career Focus: Job Chart Inventory

Library Research: Looking In

Self-Assessment Exercises

4. Work: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities

Charting the Future: A Global Philosophic View of Work

Societal Perspectives: Challenges and Options

Economics Oversimplified

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Consumer Society Goes Global

Economy Meets the Environment

Options Banish Gloom and Doom

Sustainable Systems Defined

Hope on the Economic Horizon: Business as Unusual

The Ethical Perspective: Time for a Change

Global Consciousness: Thinking the Unthinkable, Doing the Undoable

Job Market Outlook and Opportunities: Realities and Balance

Personality Types in the Job Market

New Paradigms

Self-Assessment Exercises

Group Discussion Questions

5. Workplaces/Workstyles: Companies That Work

Seven Categories of Workplaces

Career Ladders Large and Small

Wanted: Rewards on All Levels

Workplace Values: Ethics 101

Autonomy Dimensions: Who’s Boss?

Workplace Diversity

Stressed for Success

Self-Assessment Exercises

Group Discussion Questions

6. Timestyles/Workstyles: Alternatives That Work

Full-Time Alternatives

The Computer Commute

Work in the In-Between

Work of One’s Own—The Entrepreneur

Information Gathering

Third-Wave Prosumers

New Views

Leisure Styles

Community

The Ins and Outs of Workplaces: Doing the Research

Information Interviewing

Work Experience

Self-Assessment Exercises

Group Discussion Questions

7. The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering

Job Hunting

Networking

The Résumé

Cover Letters

Letters of Reference

The Application Form

The Interview

Job Offers: Too Many or Too Few?

Self-Assessment Exercises

8. Decisions, Decisions: What’s Your Next Move?

Attitudes