Career Patterns: A Kaleidoscope of Possibilities
Autor Liz H. Harris-Tuck, Annette Price, Marilee Robertsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2003
Preparing career enthusiasts for the reality of today's workplace by providing practical tools and methods necessary for self-direction and success, this indispensable book offers effective methods to help plan for an uncertain future, as well as develop skills for lifetime career planning. Actively involving users in the career planning process, it discusses the need for a flexible career plan that can adapt to changes in technology, organizational structure, and global economics, and demonstrates that as new skills are acquired through learning and experience, career options are increased. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as corporate trainers, workshop facilitators, and college instructors, it offers a unique combination of perspectives and real world experience to help readers prepare for their future, capitalize on opportunities that come their way, and ensure that an education they invest in today will continue to add value and increase their future work options. KEY TOPICS Chapter topics discuss how to discover and build on your interests, marketing yourself, writing an effective resume, professional networking, and more. For anyone looking for a job, and anyone trying to turn a job into a career.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780131109650
ISBN-10: 0131109650
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 193 x 290 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Pearson
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
ISBN-10: 0131109650
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 193 x 290 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Pearson
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States
Descriere
For Career Development or Job Search courses.
Preparing students for the reality of today's workplace by providing effective methods to help students plan for an uncertain future, as well as developing skills for lifetime career planning. Actively involving students in the career planning process, it starts with the need for a flexible career plan that can adapt to changes in technology, organizational structure, and global economics. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as corporate trainers, workshop facilitators, and college instructors, it offers a unique combination of perspectives and real—world experience to help students prepare for their future and ensure that the education they invest in today will increase their future work options.
Preparing students for the reality of today's workplace by providing effective methods to help students plan for an uncertain future, as well as developing skills for lifetime career planning. Actively involving students in the career planning process, it starts with the need for a flexible career plan that can adapt to changes in technology, organizational structure, and global economics. Drawing on the authors' extensive experience as corporate trainers, workshop facilitators, and college instructors, it offers a unique combination of perspectives and real—world experience to help students prepare for their future and ensure that the education they invest in today will increase their future work options.
Cuprins
1. New Perspectives—Understanding the World of Work.
2. Careers—Thinking in New Ways.
3. Discovering Your Values—Finding Meaning.
4. Discovering Your Interests—Creating Career Possibilities.
5. Creating Future Possibilities—Researching Careers.
6. Learning—A Lifelong Investment.
7. Communicating Your Value—Marketing You.
8. Getting Noticed—Writing a Resume That Counts.
9. Developing Relationships—Creating a Professional Network.
10. Organizing Your Work Search—Finding Meaningful Work.
References.
Index.
Notă biografică
Liz Harris-Tuck. After 15 years as a successful entrepreneur, Liz Harris-Tuck changed careers. She now expresses her personal interests as a career counselor, seminar presenter, and workshop facilitator. Assisting students, young adults, and mid-careerists from all walks of life, Liz understands their concerns. Since 1986, Liz has been affiliated with the Maricopa Community College District. She directed Scottsdale Community College's Office of Career Planning and Placement and currently teaches career planning courses.
Annette Price combines organizational expertise and teaching experience to prepare people for future success. As an internal consultant for a large organization, she conducts career development workshops, presents seminars on career planning, and counsels employees regarding career decisions. She led a team that created a career website to help employees prepare for the future needs of the organization. Annette has taught career exploration courses for the Maricopa Community College District for the past 13 years. Her students include young adults, reentry students, and mid-career changers.
Marilee Robertson brings real-world experience—corporate, business, and entrepreneurial expertise—to career planning. For the last 20 years, she has assisted college students, downsized employees, women reentering the job market, corporate managers, and executives to explore career options and successfully gain new employment. Marilee has provided outplacement services to a variety of industries, from coal mining to health care. As president of Interactive Training Designs, she consults with organizations to develop training solutions and designs interactive training for employees and managers.
Annette Price combines organizational expertise and teaching experience to prepare people for future success. As an internal consultant for a large organization, she conducts career development workshops, presents seminars on career planning, and counsels employees regarding career decisions. She led a team that created a career website to help employees prepare for the future needs of the organization. Annette has taught career exploration courses for the Maricopa Community College District for the past 13 years. Her students include young adults, reentry students, and mid-career changers.
Marilee Robertson brings real-world experience—corporate, business, and entrepreneurial expertise—to career planning. For the last 20 years, she has assisted college students, downsized employees, women reentering the job market, corporate managers, and executives to explore career options and successfully gain new employment. Marilee has provided outplacement services to a variety of industries, from coal mining to health care. As president of Interactive Training Designs, she consults with organizations to develop training solutions and designs interactive training for employees and managers.
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The only book you will need to prepare for choosing a career and securing employment, Career Patterns is a fun-filled path from self-discovery to employability. If you are looking for satisfying employment, you will appreciate the practical strategies and techniques—such as creating a career kaleidoscope, communicating your value to employers, converting experience into dynamic resumes, expanding your network, and leveraging technology to uncover the hidden job market.
Career Patterns spearheads a unique approach to career planning that recognizes the need for people to learn, evolve, and keep pace with a changing economy. This groundbreaking work:
Career Patterns spearheads a unique approach to career planning that recognizes the need for people to learn, evolve, and keep pace with a changing economy. This groundbreaking work:
- Engages students with hands-on/minds-on activities that unlock career passions
- Offers a process that allows students to "try on" a career option and "wear it" into the future
- Addresses workplace realities and is relevant for students facing the challenges of today's work world
- Instructor's manual, which serves as a course wizard for developing a high-energy classroom
- On-line PowerPoint presentations for each chapter
- Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/harris-tuck) with links to career resources, additional readings, and student activities
Caracteristici
- NEW - Emphasis on career management strategies.
- Provides students with information that is essential for finding and keeping work today.
- Provides students with information that is essential for finding and keeping work today.
- NEW - Marketing-based work search techniques.
- Helps students use all the resources available to them so that they can tune into the marketplace and get results.
- Helps students use all the resources available to them so that they can tune into the marketplace and get results.
- NEW - Expanded coverage throughout.
- Presents students with current material on trends, more Real—Life Perspectives, and tips for success once they have landed that new job.
- Presents students with current material on trends, more Real—Life Perspectives, and tips for success once they have landed that new job.
- NEW - Companion website.
- Offers students updated resources, supplemental readings, quizzes, and sample PowerPoint presentations for the instructor.
- Offers students updated resources, supplemental readings, quizzes, and sample PowerPoint presentations for the instructor.
- The kaleidoscope model for self-discovery and assessment—Presents exercises that help students identify their personal “kaleidoscope elements”—values, interests and skills—then encourages them to experiment with different kaleidoscope patterns (various combinations of these skills and talents) to help them discover new and varied work options that suit their personality and require the qualities they possess.
- Provides students with a flexible way to organize information about values, skills, interest, and personal preferences; allows them to see that there are many kaleidoscope patterns that they can use throughout their professional lives to create new work possibilities; and helps them recognize their ability to adapt to changing needs in the workplace. Enables instructors to easily incorporate inventory results and their own assessment activities into the model.
- Provides students with a flexible way to organize information about values, skills, interest, and personal preferences; allows them to see that there are many kaleidoscope patterns that they can use throughout their professional lives to create new work possibilities; and helps them recognize their ability to adapt to changing needs in the workplace. Enables instructors to easily incorporate inventory results and their own assessment activities into the model.
- Research and scenario planning— Presents an extensive array of resources (including the Internet) to research workplace trends, professions, and industries.
- Helps students learn how to think like futurists and focus on the big picture—researching how professions and industries are changing, rather than limiting their research to past information about specific jobs.
- Helps students learn how to think like futurists and focus on the big picture—researching how professions and industries are changing, rather than limiting their research to past information about specific jobs.
- The NAB process: Communicating your value—Offers a practical method for developing interviewing, networking, and resume writing skills that focuses on identifying employers' needs and communicating how those needs can be met effectively.
- Gives students practice in communicating how their skills, education, and experience can add value to an organization, and shows them how to transfer past experience and education to new career choices.
- Gives students practice in communicating how their skills, education, and experience can add value to an organization, and shows them how to transfer past experience and education to new career choices.
- Lifelong learning: A method to maintain career resiliency—Uses graphs to illustrate the economic value of education and includes current information about career options available for various college majors.
- Enables students to see the connection between education and career success by comparing their skills to the skills outlined in the SCANS report.
- Enables students to see the connection between education and career success by comparing their skills to the skills outlined in the SCANS report.
- Real-Life Perspectives—Illustrates activities and assignments by showing how other students and clients have applied strategies in the real world.
- Provides interesting and practical strategies for students, and motivates them to plan their education and career.
- Provides interesting and practical strategies for students, and motivates them to plan their education and career.
- Expert Advice—Offers recommendations from executives, recruiters, and successful employees for finding meaningful work and for learning how to communicate effectively to get a job.
- Keeps students abreast of what today's employer is looking for in a recruit.
- Keeps students abreast of what today's employer is looking for in a recruit.
- Student Activities—Provides group exercises/activities which are relevant to career planning concepts.
- Helps students “think outside their normal paradigm” by exploring different ways of applying concepts to their lives, and encourages them to become involved and active learners by requiring them to work together in groups.
- Helps students “think outside their normal paradigm” by exploring different ways of applying concepts to their lives, and encourages them to become involved and active learners by requiring them to work together in groups.
- Additional pedagogical support—Includes Chapter Summaries in a bulleted list form that assist students in review and retention; Questions at the beginning of each chapter that point the student toward the learning objectives and stimulate class discussion; Cross References to tools, exercises, and resources in other chapters woven throughout; and information printed in Tables and Graphs whenever possible for easier comprehension.
- Helps students stay focused on key concepts, make connections between various materials and gives them the fullest understanding of concepts.
- Helps students stay focused on key concepts, make connections between various materials and gives them the fullest understanding of concepts.
Caracteristici noi
- Emphasis on career management strategies.
- Provides students with information that is essential for finding and keeping work today.
- Provides students with information that is essential for finding and keeping work today.
- Marketing-based work search techniques.
- Helps students use all the resources available to them so that they can tune into the marketplace and get results.
- Helps students use all the resources available to them so that they can tune into the marketplace and get results.
- Expanded coverage throughout.
- Presents students with current material on trends, more Real—Life Perspectives, and tips for success once they have landed that new job.
- Presents students with current material on trends, more Real—Life Perspectives, and tips for success once they have landed that new job.
- Companion website.
- Offers students updated resources, supplemental readings, quizzes, and sample PowerPoint presentations for the instructor.
- Offers students updated resources, supplemental readings, quizzes, and sample PowerPoint presentations for the instructor.