Connect College to Career Student Guide to Work and Life Transition

by Hettich, Paul I.; Helkowski, Camille

• ISBN13: 9780534625825
• ISBN10: 0534625827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-12
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

You went to college so you could get a job when you graduated. If only it was easy to transition into a career! With CONNECT COLLEGE TO CAREER: STUDENT GUIDE TO WORK AND LIFE TRANSITION you'll get started right away on making the changes that will not only help you get a job, but to be ready for it when the time comes. Don't get left behind, start using CONNECT COLLEGE TO CAREER: STUDENT GUIDE TO WORK AND LIFE TRANSITION right away.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xiii
1 TRANSITIONS, EXPECTATIONS, AND THE JOURNEY AHEAD	1	(12)
What Is a Transition?	1	(3)
What Are Your Expectations?	4	(6)
Chapter 2 From College to Corporate Culture: You're a Freshman Again!	7	(1)
Chapter 3 Coming of Age: Young Adult Development	7	(1)
Chapter 4 Cognitive Development During and After College: What You Should Know About Knowing	8	(1)
Chapter 5 Intelligence Revisited: What It Really Means to Be Smart	8	(1)
Chapter 6 Motivation and Learning: Principles That Work When You Do	8	(1)
Chapter 7 Relationships-at Home, at Work, in the Community	9	(1)
Chapter 8 Working to Your Heart's Content	9	(1)
Chapter 9 Looking Back and Moving Forward	9	(1)
And the Answers Are . . .	10	(1)
Journal Starters	11	(1)
References	12	(1)
2 FROM COLLEGE TO CORPORATE CULTURE: YOU'RE A FRESHMAN AGAIN	13	(20)
Ready or Not?	14	(2)
The Paradox of Preparation	16	(2)
Why Don't You Get a Job!!	18	(3)
Learning to Learn in the Workplace: A Taxonomy of New Employee Learning Tasks	21	(9)
Individual Domain	23	(1)
People Domain	24	(1)
Organization Domain	25	(1)
Work Task Domain	26	(4)
What Else Can I Do?	30	(1)
Concluding Comments	30	(1)
Journal Starters	31	(1)
FYI	31	(1)
References	31	(2)
3 COMING OF AGE: YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT	33	(18)
Growing Pains	34	(1)
Theoretically Speaking	35	(8)
Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Psychosocial Development	35	(2)
James Marcia and Identity Status	37	(2)
Chickering and Reisser: The Seven Vectors	39	(4)
So What's Missing?	43	(1)
The Messy, Murky Metamorphosis of Young Adulthood	43	(3)
Karen	44	(1)
Jim	45	(1)
Ana	45	(1)
Common Threads	46	(1)
Sharon Daloz Parks on Young Adulthood	46	(3)
Shipwreck, Gladness, and Amazement	47	(1)
Howdy, Pilgrim! Tools to Make the Journey	48	(1)
Graduation as Commencement	49	(1)
Journal Starters	50	(1)
FYI	50	(1)
References	50	(1)
4 COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT DURING AND AFTER COLLEGE: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT KNOWING	51	(20)
Baxter Magolda's Four Stages of Knowing	52	(2)
Absolute Knowing	52	(1)
Transitional Knowing	53	(1)
Independent Knowing	53	(1)
Contextual Knowing	54	(1)
The Course of Cognitive Growth from College to Career	54	(5)
Themes of Independent Knowers	56	(2)
Themes of Contextual Knowers	58	(1)
What about Graduate School?	58	(1)
What You Can Do Now	59	(7)
Your Academic Environment	59	(5)
Cognitive Development and the Co-Curriculum	64	(2)
Your Other Life	66	(2)
Knowing and the Big Picture	68	(1)
Are You Thinking?	68	(1)
Journal Starters	69	(1)
References	70	(1)
5 INTELLIGENCE REVISITED: WHAT IT REALLY MEANS TO BE SMART	71	(22)
So What Is Intelligence?	72	(1)
Nothing Succeeds Like Successful Intelligence	72	(3)
Emotional Intelligence	75	(5)
EI in the Workplace and Beyond	78	(2)
The Competence Perspective	80	(5)
Student Portfolios	85	(4)
A Primer on Personal Independence	89	(2)
Concluding Comments	91	(1)
Journal Starters	91	(1)
FYI	92	(1)
References	92	(1)
6 MOTIVATION AND LEARNING: PRINCIPLES THAT WORK WHEN YOU DO	93	(22)
Motivation: Donning Dreams in Work Clothes	94	(1)
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motives: Who's the Boss?	94	(2)
If You Don't Know Where You Are Going, How Do You Know When You Arrive?-Motivation Through Goal Setting	96	(3)
Goal Setting and Self-Regulation	97	(2)
Fair Enough! The Equity Perspective	99	(2)
Great Expectations	101	(3)
Practical Principles of Workplace Learning	104	(3)
Learning from Consequences	105	(1)
Observational Learning	106	(1)
From Intuit to Do It: The Experiential Learning Cycle	107	(3)
Summing Up	110	(2)
Journal Starters	112	(1)
FYI	113	(1)
References	113	(2)
7 RELATIONSHIPS-AT HOME, AT WORK, IN THE COMMUNITY	115	(17)
A Home Away from Home	116	(1)
The Shifting Sands of Personal Relationships	117	(3)
Keeping Friendships Alive and Well	117	(1)
It's All in the Family	117	(3)
Relationships at Work	120	(6)
Help Is on the Way	120	(2)
Playing Well with Others	122	(4)
The Importance of Mentors	126	(2)
Mentors for Your Career	126	(1)
Mentors for Life	127	(1)
Identifying Your Mentors	127	(1)
Finding Community	128	(2)
Journal Starters	130	(1)
FYI	131	(1)
References	131	(1)
8 WORKING TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT	132	(24)
Doesn't Picking a Major Answer All the Important Questions?	133	(1)
Major Mythology	133	(1)
Hey, Does Being a Grown-up Come with Directions?	134	(4)
Big Questions . . . Important Answers	134	(2)
Other Paths to the Truth about You	136	(2)
While You're Waiting for Your "Real" Job	138	(2)
And Now, a Word from the Career Theory Authorities	140	(5)
Birds of a Feather Work Together John Holland's Theory of Vocational Choice	141	(2)
Expect the Unexpected-Good Advice from John Krumboltz	143	(1)
Work Should Be Fun-A Gift from Edward Bordin	144	(1)
Connecting to Your Calling	145	(1)
Constructing Your Job Search	146	(7)
People on Paper: The Art of Resume Writing	147	(4)
Acing the Interview	151	(2)
Tips for Top-Notch Correspondence	153	(1)
Envisioning Your Life	153	(1)
Journal Starters	154	(1)
FYI	154	(1)
References	154	(2)
9 LOOKING BACK AND MOVING FORWARD	156	(13)
The "A" List of Awareness and Action	157	(5)
Chapter 1 Transitions, Expectations, and the Journey Ahead	157	(1)
Chapter 2 From College to Corporate Culture: You're a Freshman Again	158	(1)
Chapter 3 Coming of Age: Young Adult Development	158	(1)
Chapter 4 Cognitive Development During and After College: What You Should Know About Knowing	159	(1)
Chapter 5 Intelligence Revisited: What It Really Means to Be Smart	159	(1)
Chapter 6 Motivation and Learning: Principles That Work When You Do	160	(1)
Chapter 7 Relationships-at Home, at Work, in the Community	161	(1)
Chapter 8 Working to Your Heart's Content	161	(1)
Going with the Flow	162	(4)
Building on Flow-The Stories of Jennifer and Ben	163	(3)
Recognizing Transformation	166	(1)
Happy Beginnings	167	(1)
Journal Starters	168	(1)
References	168	(1)
AUTHOR INDEX	169	(3)
SUBJECT INDEX	172