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Turning Points : Your Career Decision-Making Guide

ISBN: 9780130421906 | 0130421901
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
For undergraduate courses in Career Planning and Decision-Making. Helping students take charge of their professional future, this action-oriented handbook covers what every college student needs to know about making career choices, searching for suitable internships and jobs, and succeeding in the workplace of the 21st century. Putting numerous activities for self-assessment and research at the heart of the text, it builds upon a sound theoretical framework that focuses on three major areas: 1) searching for information (exploration); 2) settin... MORE
Prefaceix
Acknowledgmentsxiii
PART I SEARCH FOR INFORMATION1(128)
Exploring Your Career Options Step by Step
3(24)
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The Need To Decide
4(1)
Career Dilemmas
5(1)
Your Questions and Concerns
6(1)
Describe Your Dilemma Clearly and Specifically
6(3)
Consider Your Life Situation
9(3)
Our Life Situation
10(1)
Your Internal and External Obstacles
11(1)
Your Career Dilemma
12(1)
A Handy Way to Organize The Kinds Of Information You Need
12(2)
Taking Stock of Your Information Needs
14(1)
Ask--Search--Analyze--Plan (ASAP)
15(2)
Avoiding the Hazards of Internet Searches
17(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
18(1)
Summary
19(1)
Key Points
19(8)
Taking Stock of Your Situation
21(3)
Accessing College Career Services on the Internet
24(1)
Career Browser
25(2)
Identifying Your Values and Personality Type
27(22)
Reasons For Creating Your Personal Identity Database
28(3)
Career Dreams: Look At Your Ideal Life 10 Years From Now
31(1)
Your Career Dreams
31(1)
Work Values
32(3)
Work Values Survey
32(2)
Work Values and Occupational Choices
34(1)
Values, Family, and Culture
34(1)
Holland's Personality Types
35(3)
The Myers---Briggs Type Indicator®
38(2)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
40(1)
Key Points
40(9)
Your Work Values and Success
41(3)
Who Am I?
44(2)
How Do Others See Me?
46(3)
Identifying Your Interests and Skills
49(24)
What You Like, And What You Are Good At
50(1)
Your Interests and Campbell's Work Orientations
50(4)
Self-Assessment of Your Interests Using the Campbell Work Orientations
52(2)
The Skill Dimension of Your Personal Identity Database
54(5)
Self-Assessment of Your Skills Using the Campbell Work Orientations
54(5)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
59(1)
Making Sense of The Information In Your Personal Identity Database
59(2)
The Value of Personal Identity Information: Themes And Patterns Emerge
61(1)
Your Personal Identity Database Summary
62(1)
Key Points
62(11)
Your Portable Skills Profile
63(7)
Life Accomplishments
70(3)
Gathering Information About Careers
73(28)
The Value of Career Information
74(4)
What is the Start Point of Your Search?
76(2)
Ask The Right Questions
78(7)
Search For Information
85(3)
Analyze Your Findings
88(2)
Plan Your Next Actions
90(1)
Tips For Handling The Emotional Ups and Downs of A Career Information Search
91(2)
Where Students Get Stuck, And What To Do If It Happens To You
93(1)
Key Points
94(7)
Career Comparison
95(6)
Gathering Information About Four-Year Colleges and Graduate Schools
101(28)
The Value of Four-Year College and Graduate School Information
102(1)
What is the Start Point of Your Search?
103(1)
Ask The Right Questions
104(8)
Search For Information
106(6)
Nick's and Jenna's Searches: How Are They Doing?
112(1)
Analyze Your Findings
112(3)
Plan Your Next Actions
114(1)
Make Sacrifices Now to Gain Benefits Later
115(1)
When You Have More Education Than Your Family
116(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
116(2)
An Efficient and Effective Search
118(1)
Key Points
118(11)
College Comparison
119(4)
College Information Interview
123(3)
Assessing Your Need for Further Education
126(3)
PART II SET YOUR DIRECTION129(140)
Making Choices
131(20)
Setting a Career Direction is a Process
132(1)
What's at Stake: The Significance of Career Decisions
133(2)
Complicating Factors
135(1)
Listen to Your Heart And Use Your Head
136(2)
The Decision Style Window
138(3)
Trade-Offs and Unknowns
141(1)
Setting Your Career Direction Takes Time
141(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, And What To do If It Happens To You
142(1)
A Hero's Journey
143(1)
Key Points
144(7)
Making a Balanced Decision
146(1)
Making a Plan
147(4)
Selecting a Major
151(28)
Major Choice and Change During College
152(3)
The Truth About College Majors
153(2)
Majors and Degree Requirements
155(2)
Differences in Student Goals
157(4)
College Majors and Career Outcomes
161(3)
Key Actions in Choosing a Major
164(1)
Looking at Majors: Preliminary Research
165(1)
Making a Balanced Decision
165(2)
Seeking Advice While Remaining Independent
167(2)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
169(1)
Choose Your Major with Care
170(1)
Key Points
170(9)
College Major Profile
171(8)
Finding a Place to Advance Your Career
179(24)
Job Seekers: Directions and Decisions
180(1)
Four Work Settings
181(1)
Finding a Place in Business
181(5)
Providing Services for Others
186(2)
Refining Decisions About Work Settings
188(1)
Organizational Specialties: Another Way To Mold A Career
189(3)
Learning the Vocabulary of Work Settings
192(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
192(1)
Asap Information Searches and Balanced Career Decisions
192(1)
Key Points
193(10)
Industry Profile
194(6)
Starting Your Own Business
200(3)
Finding a Job
203(34)
Job Search Skills
205(1)
Job Hunting While in College
205(2)
Job Hunting After Graduation
207(2)
Active Methods Are Best
209(1)
Clarify Your Job Search Objectives and Information Needs
210(3)
Your Job Search Type
212(1)
Composing A Resume
213(4)
The Technology Transition in Sending, Storing, and Managing Resumes
217(4)
Other Job Search Tools
221(2)
Starting a Reference File
222(1)
Tips to Decrease Job Search Stress
223(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
223(1)
Key Points
224(13)
Your Resume
225(12)
Making a Job Choice
237(32)
Interview Preparation
238(2)
Interview Etiquette
240(2)
Dealing With Circumstances Out of Your Control
242(1)
Coping With Rejection
243(1)
The Job Offer
244(2)
Assessment of Career Potential
246(2)
Take Charge of Your Own Job Orientation
248(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do if It Happens To You
249(3)
Hallie's Offer: Would You Advise Her to Accept?
252(1)
Key Points
252(17)
Activity 10.2 Organization Profile
253(8)
Interview Preparation
261(8)
PART III MAKE YOUR EXPERIENCE COUNT269(70)
How to Take Charge of Your Career
271(22)
Taking Charge of Your Career: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
272(1)
Sociologists Caution You About ``Reality Shock''
273(1)
Psychologists See You As Moving Gradually Into A New Career Stage
274(2)
Your Career Stage and Tasks
276(1)
Economists Stress The Widespread Impact of High Technology and The Global Marketplace
276(5)
Humanists Alert You to a New Challenge: The Perpetual Workday
281(4)
Am I Ready to Be a Dot-Commer?
282(2)
Dot-Com Winners and Losers
284(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
285(2)
A Personal Definition of Advancement
286(1)
Key Points
287(6)
Career Advice On-line
288(5)
How to Learn from Internships, College Jobs, and Extracurricular Activities
293(22)
Value Learning Outside the Classroom
294(5)
Your College Experience Chart
296(2)
Searching for Internships on the Internet
298(1)
Challenging Assignments
299(2)
Encounters With Key People
301(1)
Coping With Hardships
302(2)
Take Charge of the Learning Process
304(3)
Celebrate Your Success
307(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To Do If It Happens To You
308(1)
Key Points
308(7)
Lessons of Experience
309(3)
Understanding Your Boss's Style
312(1)
A Development Plan Worksheet
313(2)
How to Develop Your Career Network
315(18)
Career Networks
316(1)
Seven Ways That Your Career Network Works For You
317(2)
Overcoming the Internal Obstacles to Networking
319(1)
Examine Your Career Network
320(3)
Your Network Chart
322(1)
Professional Associations: A Key Networking Opportunity
323(2)
Professional Association Membership
324(1)
Where Students Get Stuck, and What To do If It Happens To You
325(1)
Key Points
325(8)
Career Information Interview
326(7)
Reflections
333(6)
Congratulations
334(3)
Reaffirming Your Commitment to Ongoing Career Management
336(1)
Career Advancement
337(2)
Endnotes339(8)
Index347

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