Working for the government offers many advantages: great prospects for professional growth, job security, an attractive array of benefits, and the opportunity to help other citizens—but it also presents unique challenges. Managing Your Government Career gives current and future government employees powerful advice for starting out and maneuvering through their entire career. Based on the author’s more than 32 years experience in civil service jobs, as well as his interactions with thousands of government employees, the book helps readers:

decide whether working for the government is right for them • understand the differences between federal, state, and local levels • apply, interview for, and get the job they want • take advantage of the training offered • understand the culture • become familiar with local politics • make themselves valuable • develop the right mentors • fluidly transition up the ladder

Packed with indispensable guidance, this is a unique and highly strategic resource for anyone working in government.

This stand-alone guide/workbook explores the skills necessary for laying a good foundation for a business or personal life-without-struggle—i.e., critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills, and change-oriented, goal-setting skills. It presents easy-to-understand-and-use tools for achieving goal fulfillment on a minute-by-minute, day-by-day basis through goal setting, positive communication, conflict resolution, self-nurturing, time management, and career planning. By working through a variety of activities that require critical thinking and creativity, readers will develop a Personal Life Management Plan and discover the power of using new skills to become change agents for themselves. A mentor-in-a-book for individuals making the college-to-career transition.

For students interested in a career in politics and public service, Washington Internships is an invaluable guide to landing that crucial first position in America's capital. Deirdre Martinez, a former policy analyst and legislative director, shares practical strategies for each phase of the internship process. She has helped place hundreds of young people in internships of all kinds, and shares not just what to do but when to do it. The book shows how to develop relevant interests, what skills to develop, how to enhance the resume (poli sci course work not required!), and how to ace the interview. Just as important, it shows how to become a valued intern and build the relationships that lead to post-graduation job offers. Washington Internships also provides insider tips on dealing with grunt work, the pitfalls of "crossing the aisle," and how to find summer housing, deal with background checks, and negotiate Washington fashion ("zombie chic").

Washington Internships is the only career publication focused on entry-level policy and government work. It covers all branches of government, federal agencies, lobbying firms, advocacy organizations, and think tanks. Whether you're a young activist or a future power broker, this book will help you grab the first rung of the public service career ladder.

• Create your own dream job or operate an unconventional business.
• Find your own important mission, true calling, or passionate pursuit with which you can make a great living.
• Gain courage to escape the corporate world so that you don't have to spend the rest of your life trapped in a cubicle.
• Be creative and have fun in your work.
• Restructure your life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.
• Take charge of your physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual well-being.
• Experience true personal freedom in all areas of your life.
• Above all, get the most out of your life -- personally and professionally!

This unique text provides detailed information on career development interventions appropriate to use with some of the most common populations with whom entry-level human service professionals often work.

This practical and new all-in-one reference includes coverage of the historical perspective of career counseling, career development theories, career assessments, employment campaign, and program development/evaluation. Written for associate- and bachelor-level human service professionals working with diverse populations, this new text allows students to see how to integrate these topics when developing their own personal approach to working with their clients. 

Twelve chapters provide detailed information on career development interventions appropriate to use with some of the most common populations with whom entry-level human service professionals often work. Each of these chapters includes a case study, a description of the population, barriers to career success, interventions, programs, a career counseling program model, and services specific to the population.  Finally, the text also explores special topics pertinent to entry-level human service professionals: ethical issues, workplace issues of the 21st century, maintaining balance, diversity, workplace safety, supervision, and technology.

Written by and for software developers, the book builds a convincing argument that leadership from within technical ranks is critically needed, enticing readers to explore their own potential for the role. Career advancement from initial management stages to higher levels is discussed in a concise and logical way.

You.next() answers your questions about management: Is this the right direction for me? Should I get started now, and how? What will I do if it does not work out? The authors outline the path for those who are ready to take full control of their careers.
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2009 Axiom Business Book Award Winner!

Hitting Your Stride advocates learning how to use your uniqueness at work - the best of who you are - to be rewarded with interesting work, personal growth, and financial gains. Nan shares her 10 "Winning at Working" Lessons - common sense, but uncommon practices, ways to help you reengage your talent, create your own luck, differentiate your work performance, and make a difference at work. Nan's stop-wishing, start-creating approach offers savvy insights to help you get ahead, enjoy working, and achieve financial rewards. Her motto: "Opportunity is anywhere and everywhere. While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can create your own luck and turn your dreams into reality." Using a story-telling approach, mixed with commentary, analysis, and reflective exercises, Nan identifies mistakes, struggles, disappointments, failures, and successes in the workplace. Hitting Your Stride is an inspiring business-and-life book, with an individualized approach to bringing the best of who you are to work from someone who has been an employee, a manager, and a senior executive. It reinforces the message that whether or not you climb the corporate ladder, winning at working is individual. Hitting Your Stride will help you find your way there, along your own path and with your own style.

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The goal of this book is to give career counselors knowledge awareness, and skills to work with diverse girls and women to make their lives as authentic, meaningful, and rewarding as they can possibly be. It is designed to help career counselors work with diverse girls and women as they pursue the ever widening choices in their lives. In addition, the text:

*focuses on the history of the field and provides the social-historical context for its development;
*discusses basic issues and concepts in the career development and counseling of women;
*discusses the needs of women from different ethnic backgrounds, income levels, and sexual preferences;
*reviews critical gender issues in many forms of qualitative and quantitative assessment;
*describes the use of a critical feminist approach to career counseling;
*discusses dual career and dual earners' career needs;
*focuses on the rapid growth in science/technology/engineering and mathematical (STEM) occupational fields; and
*examines the career counseling needs of women in management positions.

Handbook of Career Counseling for Women, Second Edition appeals to anyone interested in their own career development and those of clients, students, daughters, and other important girls and women in their life.
Price=$168.95
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Written by Grace Kim, a young architect who has worked in large and small firms and started her own firm, this is a concise, helpful guide to understanding the choices and decisions you will confront on the road from student to practitioner. Whether you are currently an architecture student, starting the internship process, taking the registration exams, or beginning your own firm, this book demystifies the process for you.
Price=$47.14
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You can now experience the same training studied by some of out finest actors, including: Robert Duvall, Joanne Woodward, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Gregory Peck, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach and many others.

With a foreword by Academy Award Winner and theatre legend, Horton Foote, this inspiring new book will strengthen in you the most essential and vital skills of great acting! It will lead you to a very personal way of working, as an actor who is absolutely authentic and tremendously simple - so rare in today's theatre.

The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook Volume I is appropriate for any actor, from beginning student to working professional. As you experience the joy of discovery offered in each lesson, the Workbook will awaken within you a profound passion to create and a hunger to express yourself as an artist of the theatre, An Actor!
Price=$12.80
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Graduate school marks the first step toward a career in mathematics for young mathematicians. During this period, they make important decisions which will affect the rest of their careers. Here now is a detailed guide to help students navigate graduate school and the years that follow.

In his inimitable and forthright style, Steven Krantz addresses the major issues of graduate school, including choosing a program, passing the qualifying exams, finding an advisor, writing a thesis, and getting that first job. As with his earlier guide, How to Teach Mathematics, he avoids generalities, giving clear advice on how to handle real situations. The book also contains a description of the basic elements of a mathematical education, as well as a glossary and appendices on the structure of a typical department and university and the standard academic ranks.

Steven G. Krantz is an accomplished mathematician and an award-winning author. He has published 130 research articles and 45 books. He has worked in many different types of mathematics departments, supervised both masters and doctoral students, and is currently the Chair of the Mathematics Department at Washington University in St. Louis.
Price=$21.42
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The workplace is constantly in flux, and even now there are new opportunities open to women. But to take advantage of these possibilities, it's essential to know the current rules for corporate success. This isn't your father's or your mother's workplace anymore!

Whether it's the CEO seat, an executive manager slot, or a more intrapreneurial position, women who follow Career GPS will have what it takes to gain their professional goals.

Dr. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., an authority on career development, has worked with women across a variety of fields and in different kinds of corporations, from Fortune 500s to start-ups. Here she offers guidelines to help women forge their own pathways to professional ascent, providing tips for maximizing a review, networking in a relevant way, and much more. According to Dr. Bell:

• Think working hard is enough to be recognized? It's not enough to assume your effort will speak for itself. You have to socialize with the decision makers. It might not mean you have to pick up the golf clubs, but you do have to figure out what works in your own organization.
• Parlez-vous FranÇis? Learning Mandarin? If you work for a global company and aspire to an extreme job or higher, make it known that you would take an overseas assignment to advance your career.
• Nowhere to go right now? Even in hard times there are options. Learn a lateral skill—such as accounting—so when the company is firing on all engines again, you will impress through the breadth of your knowledge.

Drawing from her work as a consultant to some of the country's most prestigious Fortune 100 companies, Dr. Bell helps readers succeed at every level in a dynamic corporate marketplace. Career GPS combines Dr. Bell's academic knowledge and expertise with dozens of heartfelt first-person stories from smart women who rose through the ranks. Here is a book that will guide women of all cultures, ages, and levels of experience to their career goals.

Written in a frank, conversational voice and designed to quickly impart easy-to-implement strategies, The Way Up includes valuable lessons for

• Dealing with the ''Boss from Hell''
• Building a reputation for reliability and consistency
• Exuding the confidence that's crucial to winning big
• Becoming a ''Networking Black Belt''
• Recovering from workplace screwups
• Advancing by focusing on what makes the company money

By mastering these skills and the many other lessons presented in this book, you'll find financial reward, the sense of accomplishment from a job well done, and the satisfaction of reaching your grand goals in life.
Price=$14.96
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Everything you need to know to launch your career in fundraising

Careers in Fundraising provides expert guidance on professional opportunities in the field of fundraising, including topics on professional development, on-the-job issues, and the significance of fundraising as a career. This comprehensive resource covers all the important aspects of the profession, and also addresses the personal mission and commitment necessary for success in the field. An overview of the nonprofit sector provides needed background, and sidebars from professional fundraisers and students enhance and complement the content of each chapter. Careers in Fundraising will help you:
* Learn where and how to get the education and the training you need for a career in fundraising
* Discover the personal and professional traits of a successful fundraising professional
* Explore the many different types of positions available in the field-and find the one that's right for you


You'll find a wealth of useful, specialized material such as successful career case studies and tips on international fundraising and on-the-job stress. Relevant bibliographic information is featured at the end of each chapter, and listings of helpful Internet sites and important statistics are included. Careers in Fundraising offers up-to-date and in-depth advice for students interested in an exciting career and professionals looking for a new challenge.
Price=$23.10
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Whether you are a seasoned professional or just starting out learning the craft of fighting for the stage, this collection of fight scenes -- the first of its kind -- will be a great addition to your library.
Price=$19.95
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This process-oriented, how-to, and clinically oriented text is the book that the market has been waiting for. Ideal for both beginning and experienced career counselors, the text reviews the most influential career development theories and illustrates how to use them in developing treatment plans. The author provides a practical focus on how to most effectively and competently use these theories in practice, leaving the comprehensive overview and in-depth discussion of theories for other career counseling texts.
Price=$97.45
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Part self-help manual, part inspiration, This Is Not the Career I Ordered is a valuable resource for those contemplating a career change. Professional career reinvention is possible and this book will show you how to play to your strengths, discover your passions, and own your humble confidence as you plan your next career move. Told through the lens of amazing women who have reignited and reinvented their careers, the journey begins with my own emotional career transition. This book is multi generational and appropriate for your daughters, sisters, mothers, friends, and colleagues. Chock full of empowering, energizing, and motivating action steps to help you find a career that you will love.

Price=$9.99
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The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years.

This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on emergent thinking, the place of spirituality and the search for meaning and purpose in, with and through work, the integration of being and becoming as dimensions of career development.

It will be vital reading for all those working in and studying career development, either at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level and provides a new and refreshing approach to this fast changing subject.

Key themes include:

Factors such as complexity, change, and contribution
People's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment
Contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the working world
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Career Flow presents creative, innovative, and useful strategies for addressing career challenges in the 21st century. Learning these competencies will serve students throughout their lifetime.

More than ever, artists face questions such as how to get started, how to sell their work, how to promote themselves, and what to do once they are working. Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer is the book that will answer all those questions, and more!

It is clear that although the human resource management field has been drastically affected by global competition over the last twenty years, most of the research and publications in the field are geared to providing corporations with an understanding of their business environment. This book takes an entirely different approach by looking at the job and career markets from the point of view of individuals who are searching for new strategies to find, develop and manage their careers in a global environment. Not only does it provide the individual with the tools necessary to evaluate various domestic and international career markets, but it also presents strategies to help them package and market their skills and competencies at home and abroad. With the help of this vital guidebook to the global job market, readers will:

• Learn how to research national markets to spot new career opportunities

• Find information on dynamic regions and companies where careers are flourishing

• Find out about professional & skill certifications that help with global employment

• Learn how to build and mobilize personal and professional networks

• Learn about international oriented business sectors and career opportunities

• Identify education and training opportunities at home and abroad

• Create practical strategies for developing and managing their career

As global competition forces firms to adjust rapidly to changing market conditions, affecting the structure and content of jobs, careers and career markets around the world, the need for individuals to be proactive is becoming clear. This book offers readers the tools they need to evaluate and manage their career environment and personal career profiles, and ultimately, to have a rewarding career.

A comprehensive road map to guide designers through the maze of setting up a new practice while avoiding common pitfalls.

The global bestseller Business Model Generation introduced a unique visual way to summarize and creatively brainstorm any business or product idea on a single sheet of paper. Business Model You uses the same powerful one-page tool to teach readers how to draw "personal business models," which reveal new ways their skills can be adapted to the changing needs of the marketplace to reveal new, more satisfying, career and life possibilities. Produced by the same team that created Business Model Generation, this book is based on the Business Model Canvas methodology, which has quickly emerged as the world's leading business model description and innovation technique.

This book shows readers how to:

• Understand business model thinking and diagram their current personal business model
• Understand the value of their skills in the marketplace and define their purpose
• Articulate a vision for change
• Create a new personal business model harmonized with that vision, and most important, test and implement the new model

When you implement the one-page tool from Business Model You, you create a game-changing business model for your life and career.
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Or is the work you once enjoyed now just a way to pay the bills? Perhaps you're even doubting your career choice altogether. Let The Pathfinder guide you to a more engaging, fulfilling work life. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by Rockport Institute, an innovative and award-winning career-counseling network that has changed the lives of over 10,000 people, The Pathfinder offers invaluable advice and more than 100 self-tests and diagnostic tools that will help you choose an entirely new career -- or view a current job from a new, more positive perspective. You'll learn:

* How to design your new career direction step by step so that it fits your talents, personality, needs, goals, values, and is, at the same time, practical and attainable

* How to deal successfully with the "yeah but" voices in your head that keep you going back to the same old ill-fitting job, day after day

* How to land the perfect job in your new field, plus tips on writing a really exceptional résumé, personal marketing, and networking (even for those who hate to network)

Whether you're a seasoned professional in search of a career change or a beginner just entering the working world, you want to make the right choices from the beginning. No matter where you are in your journey, if you want work to be more of a dance than a drag, The Pathfinder will expertly coach you through the process of designing a career you will love.
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User-friendly and engaging, this text covers both traditional and newer theories of career counseling. The third edition uses the National Career Development Association’s Career Counseling Competencies, the National Career Development Guidelines for professional school counselors, and CACREP Standards as a framework for covering the crucial knowledge areas and skills required for effective career development interventions in a diverse society. Coverage focuses squarely on the application of interventions with real people, using straightforward presentations, student activities, and multicultural case studies to expose students to all of the essential competencies required for the professional practice of career counseling. The authors, both among the leading career development scholars nationally and internationally, share their in-depth knowledge and experience to help readers appreciate the importance of career development theory and practice. This practical text provides essential tips for translating theory into practice in ways that readers can readily apply to their prospective work settings.

Supercharge Performance by Linking Employee-Driven Career Development with Business Goals

How do you make career development work for both the employee and the business? IBM® has done it by tightly linking employee-driven career development programs with corporate goals. In Agile Career Development, three of IBM’s leading HR innovators show how IBM has accomplished this by illustrating various lessons and approaches that can be applied to other organizations as well. This book is for every HR professional, learning or training manager, executive, strategist, and any other business leader who wants to create a high performing organization.

“In the 21st century, there will be an increasing competitive need for any company to operate as a globally integrated enterprise that can effectively develop and then tap the skills and capabilities of its workforce anywhere in the world. In IBM, we have worked to enable a workforce that is adaptive, flexible, and capable of responding to changes in the marketplace and the needs of our clients. Agile Career Development shows how focusing on career development opportunities and guidance for employees is a key factor in our business strategy and a major source of value for IBM employees. This book can be used as a guide to any organization that is seeking to find practical ways to develop the talent of its workforce.”

–J. Randall MacDonald, Senior Vice President, IBM Human Resources

“This book highlights tried and true best practices developed at a company known the world over for active dedication to their workforce. Mary Ann, Diana, and Sheila have captured the key issues that will enhance and streamline your career development program and, subsequently, increase employee engagement, retention, and productivity. I particularly like their practical, real-life understanding of the barriers to most career development programs and the manageable framework to bring career growth to life. They also teach us how to make a business case for career development–critical in creating the foundation for a sustainable program. This includes a good blend of benefits both for the individual employee and the organization as a whole. I only wish I had this book available to me years ago when I was managing a career development program!”

–Jim Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., author of Implementing the Four Levels of Transferring Learning to Behavior

In an environment where information, service, and knowledge are primary sources of value creation, workforce strength is central to securing prosperity. Written by practitioners for practitioners, Building Workforce Strength: Creating Value through Workforce and Career Development bridges the disciplines of organization and individual development, showing those charged with organizational progress why workforce strength is a key component of prosperity—and how it can be achieved.

This hands-on volume is organized in three sections that establish a foundation for workforce and career development, explore implementation in organizations, and examine the process's implications for working with individuals. Showcasing workforce and career development practices and systems for both represented and nonrepresented populations, it provides a framework, techniques, and examples that will guide approaches to building workforce strength. Applications of workforce and career development principles in a variety of sectors, such as healthcare and high technology, offer tangible examples of these principles in practice.

• Choosing A Career Is More Than Just Choosing A Job
• Secrets to Finding The PERFECT Career Without Sacrificing Money
• Simple Questions That Can Help You Find A Career
• 4 Ways To NARROW DOWN What Path You Should Take
• EASY Ways To Find The PERFECT CAREER That You Can Excel In
• How To Properly Plan For Your SUCCESS
• Tips For Identifying Obstacles And How To OVERCOME THEM

“A refreshing message . . . from someone who has fought many corporate wars.” —The New York Times

With the latest stories from D’Alessandro’s neverending collection of corporate derring-do and new insight on the global battlefield, the nationally bestselling Career Warfare is more essential than ever when navigating your way to success.

“D’Alessandro dares to speak the truth. If you don’t manage your own reputation, those around you will. This is no theoretical exercise. In corporate America, people talk about you every day. You can affect what they say.

“With a cut-the-crap sharp eye for the passions, yearnings, and follies that drive every organization, D’Alessandro draws apart the drapes and reveals what it really takes to get ahead in business.” —James Carville, author and Democratic Strategist

“With good jobs becoming harder to find, D’Alessandro’s sage advice is more timely and important than ever, especially for those who are trying to build their personal brands and enhance their careers at the same time.” —Tom Neff, Chairman, U.S., Spencer Stuart

Get Ready for the Real World

How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It’s the question virtually every college student or recent graduate faces. Now newly revised and updated, Lindsey Pollak’s Getting from College to Career is the definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need to succeed in the job search, offering action-oriented tips and strategies ranging from the simple to the expert. Learn how to:

• Get the best tools for career prep and job hunting
• E-mail like a professional
• Go global
• Practice the eight essentials of internship achievement
• Perform five minutes of stand-up
• Overprepare for interviews
• Persist without being a pest

Getting from College to Career gives you the essential information and guidance you need to get your foot in the door of the real world. Don’t start your first job search without it!

The long-awaited revision of this classic book again offers a thorough, sensitive overview of the concepts and applications of transition education. Coverage takes a whole-life approach to meeting the functional/ transitional needs of students and adults for whom a career-oriented educational environment is optimal, including those who could benefit from community college programs. Based on the widely-used Life-Centered Career Education (LCCE) program, this book provides teaching strategies that focus on twenty-two major competency areas embracing daily living, personal/social, and occupational skills. Complete with a step-by-step program for implementing a school curriculum that teaches career and life skills, this is the book that defined the transition course in Special Education. For special education teachers.

Are you looking for a career with professional rewards and personal satisfaction? Perhaps you'd like to find meaningful employment in the field of international relations? Working World is the perfect resource for making sound career choices, and is particularly valuable for those interested in exploring a career in international education, exchange, and development.

Sherry Mueller, head of a large nonprofit organization with an international focus, and Mark Overmann, a young professional on his way up, serve as spirited guidance counselors and offer valuable insight on launching a career, not just landing a job. The two authors -- representing contrasting personalities, levels of experience, and different generations -- engage in an entertaining dialogue designed to highlight alternative approaches to the same destination: making a difference in the world. With a rich mix of anecdotes and advice, the two authors present their individual perspectives on career development: identifying your cause, the art of networking, the value of mentors, and careers as "continuous journeys." Mueller and Overmann push job seekers to challenge assumptions about what it means to pursue a career in international relations and to recognize that the path to career success is rarely straight.

To help the job seeker chart the best course, Working World provides specific resources including annotated lists of selected organizations, websites, and further reading. Profiles of twelve professionals, from promising young associates to presidents and CEOs, illustrate the book's main topics. Each professional provides insight into his or her career choices, distills lessons learned, and offers practical advice about building a career in international affairs. All of these resources were chosen specifically to help job seekers map the next steps toward the internship, job, or other opportunity that will give shape to the career they envision.

In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence.

The PVI-model of professional advancement will teach you to: (1) Actively promote yourself as an asset and valuable person inside the organization, (2) Increase your visibility to gain others’ recognition and appreciation for your efforts and (3) Become a person of influence who makes key decisions inside the organization.

Getting Ahead will put you ahead of the competition to become a known, valued, and desired commodity at your company.

• For more than two decades, Joel Garfinkle has worked closely with thousands of executives, senior managers, directors, and employees at the world's leading companies, and has authored 300 articles on leadership
• Offers detailed guidance on how to increase exposure, boost visibility, enhance perceived value for your organization, and ultimately achieve career advancement
• Explains how to get your name circulating among higher levels of management so others know you, see your results, and acknowledge the impact you bring to the company

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From life management to job search skills, discover the first steps toward navigating your health care career! Packed with tips and suggestions, this practical guide teaches the skills needed to achieve success in school and beyond with an encouraging, up-beat tone. This text is designed to help you attain four important goals as a health care student:

1) Complete your educational program

2) Think like a health care professional

3) Find the right job

4) Attain long-term career success.

• Self-paced format allows you to work through the text independently

• Small units with self assessment facilitates a self-paced approach and makes the content less intimidating
• Illustrations, photos, and cartoons provide visual aid to catch and keep your attention

• Key terms and objectives provides goals and a basis of knowledge before reading the chapter
• Focus on resume building emphasizes how to build a successful resume from the first day of your education
• On The Job boxes and Prescription for Success exercises reinforce how the skills presented relate to your career in health care
• Expanded useful Spanish phrases offers a quick reference for translations that will prove valuable in the workplace

• UNIQUE! Chapter focusing on non-traditional students adds further guidance to this growing population in health careers education
• UNIQUE! Summaries of short interviews with employers and working professionals provide first hand information about how to prepare for the future
• UNIQUE! Tips from recent graduates who are successfully employed help you apply successful skills for both school and your career

“Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad do a masterful job of bringing theory to life through the lived stories of actual career clients. I very much appreciated the book’s format, the examples, the discussion questions, and the richly developed case examples.”                               
-Mary J. Heppner, University of Missouri, Columbia, commenting on the First Edition

"As far as the content of the text goes, it ROCKS! The case studies keep it very engaging along with the exercises. This is the first text I've ever used that truly engaged the reader and wasn't a forced read. Thank you!"
-Student

Designed to help readers apply career development theories to their work with career counseling clients, Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies links five major career development and choice theories to a fictional case client, “Leslie.” Authors Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad use this case study approach throughout the book to provide an integrative thread that illustrates similarities and differences between the featured theories. Thoroughly updated, the Second Edition also extends the use of the First Rdition’s effective hypothesis-strategy feature and includes an entirely new chapter on assessment.

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• Blends theory, practical examples, and specific cases to help readers apply a wide range of career development theories to counseling clients
• Draws on the authors’ experiences as practitioners, researchers, and teachers
• Offers new "Counselor Cognitions" to guide readers in forming hypotheses about clients
• Adds new "Personal Reflections" features that help readers in their own career development
• Discusses societal issues that influence career and work decisions, such as the role of the economy and the changing nature of the workforce

Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies, Second Edition, is intended as a core or supplementary text for graduate-level students in career or vocational psychology courses, as well as for career practicum courses. It is also appropriate for use by counseling practitioners as an additional resource to strengthen and expand their services.

Supplements
The text is supported by Instructors Resources on CD, which includes the following:

• Syllabus
• Final Exam
• PowerPoint slides
• Occupational Information Guide

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