Coming Alive from Nine to Five : A Career Search Handbook

by Michelozzi, Betty Neville

• ISBN13: 9780767402163
• ISBN10: 0767402162
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-02
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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