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9780787281892

Your Career Planner

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787281892

  • ISBN10:

    0787281891

  • Edition: 8th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

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Table of Contents

About the Authors vii
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Making Career Decisions in a Changing World
1(26)
Work, Life and the Lottery
2(2)
Defining Career
3(1)
A Personal Guide
4(1)
Career and Life Chapters
5(9)
Jobs and Careers
6(1)
Career and Self-Concept
7(1)
Positive Mental Imaging
8(1)
Career Decision Making
8(2)
Steps to Career-Planning Success
10(1)
Career Development of the Past
11(1)
The Death of Bureaucratic Careers
12(2)
Death and Rebirth
14(1)
Work in the Postbureaucratic Career
14(1)
Packaging Ourselves for Interesting Work
14(1)
Career Responsibility and Resources
15(1)
Career Development in Paradigm Shifting Times
16(3)
Critical Issues and New Realities
19(8)
Virtual Career Planning
27(10)
Traditional Methods of Career Planning: Libraries and Career Centers Unplugged
28(1)
The Influences of Technology on Career Planning
28(2)
Your Career Versus Virtual Career Planning
30(1)
Ten Uses of the Internet in Career Planning
30(4)
Self-Assessment
30(1)
Exploring Careers and Industries
31(1)
Researching Employers
31(1)
Finding Career and Job Information
32(1)
E-Networking and E-Communities
32(1)
Career Guidance and Coaching
32(1)
Practicing for Interviews
32(1)
Developing and Posting Resumes
33(1)
Searching and Applying for Jobs
33(1)
Continuing Education and Training
33(1)
The Internet's Job, Career, and Business Boon
34(3)
Your Skills in Action
37(26)
Abundant Skills
38(12)
Types of Skills
38(6)
What Kind of Skills Do You Have?
44(5)
Using Your Skills to Choose a Career
49(1)
The Relationship of Work to Data, People, and Things
50(1)
Defining Data, People, and Things
51(1)
Functional Skills versus Self-Management Skills
51(6)
The Importance of Self-Management Skills
51(2)
Observing Self-Management Skills
53(3)
Relating Self-Management Skills to Work Settings
56(1)
Assessing Your Special Knowledge Skills
57(6)
Your Thinking Style in Work and Learning
63(32)
Traditional Measures of Intelligence
64(1)
Influences on Your Thinking
65(1)
Recent Research on the Brain
65(6)
Our Two Minds
66(2)
The Four Styles of Thinking
68(3)
Your Thinking Style Profile
71(3)
Putting Your Profile to Work
74(1)
Being Your Successful Best
74(21)
The Value of Knowing Your Thinking Style
76(19)
Understanding Your Personality and Interests
95(22)
Thinking Style versus Personality Style
96(1)
Do Opposites Attract?
96(1)
Personality and Career Choice
96(21)
Identifying Your Personality Style
97(10)
What Your Profile Shows
107(4)
Assessing Famous Personality Profiles
111(1)
The Personality Style Hexagon
111(6)
Connecting Your Personality to Work
117(20)
Connecting People and Occupations
119(2)
Personality Profiles and Occupational Profiles
121(4)
Finding Compatible Occupational Profiles
124(1)
Predicting Outcomes of Occupational and Academic Choices
125(12)
Discovering What Motivates You
137(22)
Needs and Values
138(1)
Needs and Motivation
138(1)
Needs, Behavior and Satisfaction
138(1)
Unacknowledged Needs and False Motivations
139(1)
Maslow's Needs Hierarchy
140(1)
The Basic Needs on the Job
141(3)
Needs versus Values
144(5)
The Importance of Values in Going for What You Want
145(1)
Defining and Clarifying Values
146(2)
Acquiring and Changing Your Values
148(1)
Discovering Your Hidden Values
149(10)
The Importance of Values in Work
151(8)
Making a Career Choice
159(34)
Alternatives and Decision Making
160(2)
Envisioning the Task
160(2)
Becoming Aware of Your Alternatives
162(7)
Seeking Career Alternatives from Functional Skills
162(7)
Decision-Making Time
169(19)
Narrowing Down
173(1)
Holland Coding Your Career Alternatives
174(1)
Exploring Your Top Ten
175(2)
Assessing Compatibility and Employment Outlook
177(11)
Making a Definite Decision
188(5)
Dealing with a Tentative Decision
188(3)
Deciding and Taking Responsibility
191(2)
Setting Goals and Planning Your Career
193(18)
The Future in Perspective
194(1)
Influencing Your Career Future
195(1)
Career Goals/Objectives
195(16)
Defining Your Goals/Objectives
196(1)
Clarifying What You Want in a Career
197(2)
Guidelines for Expressing Statements of Career Goals and Objectives
199(1)
Comprehensive Career Goals and Objectives
200(9)
Final Notes on Goals, Objectives, and Plans
209(2)
Empowering Yourself To Succeed
211(24)
Three Kinds of Barriers
212(23)
Mindsets
212(10)
The Five Competencies Involved in Common Situational Barriers
222(13)
Searching for a Job to Fit Your Talents
235(34)
Great Jobs and Barriers
236(1)
Understanding the Getting a Job Game
236(33)
Choosing Your Strategy
237(28)
Job-Search Case Study
265(4)
Appendix A Self-Insights 269(8)
Appendix B Personality-Style Compatibility Answers 277(2)
Appendix C Conducting Career Information Interviews 279(2)
Appendix D Envisioning Process 281(4)
Appendix E Personality and Interest Assessments 285(4)
Appendix F Small Discussion Groups 289(2)
Appendix G Prioritizing Process 291(14)
Index 305

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