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For courses in Career and Life Planning, Career Exploration, Career Decision Making. Written in a practical, user-friendly style, this popular, brief, hands-on guide helps students of all ages master useful strategies and techniques for enhancing the lifelong process of career exploration and planning to maximize career satisfaction, stability, and success. Rather than teaching people how to write a resume or prepare for a job interview, it helps them assess their interests, personality, skills, experiences, and values, and learn about the world of work in order to make effective career decisions. It first presents an overview of the current job market, and then addresses the importance of career exploration and planning throughout one's life.

Preface

vii

it's a jungle out there Understanding the World of Work

1

(12)

An Overview of the World of Work

1

(1)

Classifying Work Environments

2

(2)

World of Work: Forecasts and Trends

4

(1)

Gathering and Evaluating Employment Information and Support

5

(3)

The Importance of Goal Setting in Career Planning

8

(5)

Short-Term and Long-Range Goal Setting

8

(5)

step by step The Developmental Process of Making Career Decisions

13

(12)

The Process of Career Development

13

(1)

Donald Super's Theory of Career Development

14

(5)

Summary of Dr. Super's Stages of Career Development

15

(4)

Determining Where You Are in the Process

19

(6)

Your Career Autobiography

20

(2)

Identifying Your Career Needs

22

(3)

the pieces of the puzzle Assessing Your Personality, Interests, Abilities, and Experiences

25

(12)

The Importance of Career Assessment

25

(2)

Assessment of Personality

27

(3)

Four Dimensions of Personality

27

(1)

What's My Type?

28

(2)

Assessment of Interests

30

(2)

Career Dreaming

31

(1)

Activities Ratings

32

(1)

Assessments of Abilities and Experiences

32

(4)

Linking the Past to the Present

34

(1)

How Well Do You Do What You Do?

35

(1)

Other Types of Career Assessment

36

(1)

what matters most? Recognizing the Importance of Your Values

37

(8)

The Role of Work-Related Values

37

(3)

What Makes Work Fun for You?

38

(2)

Core Life Values

40

(5)

Getting at the Core: What Matters Most?

41

(4)

making the pieces fit Integrating Information About Yourself

45

(8)

Matching Self-Concepts with Work Environments

46

(3)

Finding Your Work Environment

48

(1)

Identifying Careers That Match Your Career Type

49

(1)

Finding Interesting Careers for Your Career Type

50

(1)

Case Studies in Narrowing Career Options

50

(3)

Narrowing Your Career Options

51

(2)

traveling through the maze Methods of Career Exploration

53

(22)

A Review of the Career Exploration Process

53

(1)

Developing an Organized System of Information Gathering

54

(1)

Gathering Information About Careers

54

(10)

Informational Interviewing: Questions to Ask About a Potential Career

59

(3)

Using the Career Information Form

62

(2)

Job Shadowing

64

(2)

Job Shadowing

65

(1)

The Value of Part-Time and Volunteer Experiences

66

(9)

facing the challenges head-on Identifying and Overcoming the Hurdles

75

(18)

The Role of Barriers in Career Decision Making

75

(2)

Examples of Internal and External Barriers

76

(1)

Real and Perceived Barriers

77

(5)

Identifying Career-Related Barriers

79

(3)

Career Self-Efficacy and Its Relationship to Barriers

82

(6)

Self-Efficacy Change Strategies

85

(3)

Identifying Helpful Resources

88

(5)

Recognizing Resources

88

(5)

decisions, decisions, decisions Making a Tentative Career Decision

93

(10)

Tentative Career Decision Making

93

(2)

Summary of Career Decision-Making Tasks You've Already Accomplished

95

(1)

Preparing to Make the Decision

95

(8)

Career Analysis System

96

(7)

lights, camera, action! Creating a Career Activities Timeline

103

(14)

Setting Goals

103

(2)

Educational and Training Opportunities

105

(1)

Factors to Consider When Selecting a School or Training Program

106

(2)

Selecting a Major

108

(1)

Creating a Career Activities Timeline

109

(8)

Career Preparation Requirements

109

(4)

Creating the Timeline

113

(1)

Factors to Consider When Creating Your Career Activities Timeline

113

(4)

what next? Looking and Planning Ahead

117

(6)

Establishment and Maintenance Stages of Career Development

117

(1)

The Disengagement Stage of Career Development

118

(1)

Refining the Career Decision-Making Process to Meet Your Needs

118

(2)

Conclusion

120

(3)

A appendix OCCUPATIONS CONSIDERED MOST ATTRACTIVE BY PERSONS WITH CERTAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES

123

(4)

B appendix SCORING INSTRUCTIONS FOR CHAPTER 3 EXERCISES

127

(4)

C appendix OCCUPATIONS ARRANGED BY WORK ENVIRONMENTS

131

(4)

D appendix JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES

135

(6)

Classified Advertisements

135

(1)

Your Network of Connections

135

(1)

Teachers and Counselors

136

(1)

Job Postings

136

(1)

Telephone Job Listings

136

(1)

Career Fairs

136

(1)

Computer Network Job Listings

137

(1)

One-Stop Career Centers

137

(1)

Employment Agencies

137

(1)

Job Application Procedures

137

(1)

The Employment Interview

138

(3)

Summary of Important Tips for Job Interview Preparation

139

(2)

E appendix JOB SATISFACTION QUESTINNAIRE

141

(4)

Bibliography

145

(2)

Index

147

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Career decision making is a lifelong process. The experiences we have during childhood and adolescence help us develop attitudes about the world of work and form the basis of some of our earliest career aspirations. As we enter adulthood, our experiences, personality, skills, and values become increasingly relevant as we narrow our interests down to the two or three careers we're most likely to pursue. That's when a clear understanding of the career decision-making process becomes so important. As just about every career counselor will attest, the most fulfilling and rewarding career decisions are made by those who understand what the career decision-making process is all about. The second edition ofMaking Career Decisions That Count: A Practical Guideis written specifically to help you learn more about the multifaceted nature of career decision making as you engage in various career exploration and planning activities. Case studies of career decision makers of all ages are integrated throughout the book to illustrate important concepts and clarify the complexity of the career decision-making process. Interesting and informative chapter exercises provide you with several hands-on opportunities to put your newfound knowledge into practice. You'll learn hundreds of useful strategies to help you make career decisions that will lead to satisfaction, stability, and success. Chapter 1, "Understanding the World of Work," introduces students to Dr. Anne Roe's system for classifying careers and encourages students to keep up with labor trends and job projections as they learn more about various career decision-making strategies. Chapter 2, "The Developmental Process of Making Career Decisions," discusses Donald Super's theory of career development and includes detailed examples of the various stages of the career decision-making process. You'll learn firsthand that making satisfying career decisions requires an increased awareness of your career self-concept. In Chapter 3, "Assessing Your Personality, Interests, Abilities, and Experiences," and Chapter 4, "Recognizing the Importance of Your Values," you'll complete several exercises designed to help you learn more about your personality, interests, experiences, skills, and values. Then, in Chapter 5, "Integrating Information About Yourself," you'll evaluate your career-related self-concept and make some initial career decisions based on the results of assessments you'll complete in Chapters 3 and 4. As Chapter S concludes, you'll be encouraged to narrow your list of career options to the four or five that seem most worthy of continued exploration. Chapter 6, "Methods of Career Exploration," presents information about multiple resources that can be used for gathering career-related information. The chapter includes descriptions of theOccupational Outlook Handbook,the recently developed O*NET system, Internet resources, and more than 20 other sources of information that you'll find useful. The chapter also discusses helpful hints and strategies regarding informational interviewing, job shadowing, and the importance of part-time and volunteer work experiences as valuable methods of career exploration. Chapter 7, "Identifying and Overcoming the Hurdles," invites you to think constructively about the role of barriers in the career decision-making process. After learning about the differences between real and perceived, internal and external barriers, you'll complete a series of exercises to assist you in identifying career-related barriers and developing effective strategies for overcoming them. With an increased awareness of your self-concept and a clearer understanding of the career decision-making process, you'll be prepared to narrow your career options down even further in Chapter 8, "Making a Tentative Career Decision."' After emphasizing that career decisions are usually still tentative at this point in the process, the chapter int

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