Product Description: Over 5000 job contacts in the Baltimore/Annapolis Metro Areas, including small and large companies, Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and internships. Co-authored by the University of Maryland, the book also includes job search strategies, interviewing techniques, sample resumes and cover letters, job web-sites and hotlines, industry pblications, employment agencies, how to relocate, where to live, and more...read more

Product Description: Vocational guidance fits industrial societies and career counselling suits corporate cultures. However, neither guidance nor counselling seems to be the best practice for career intervention in the global economy of the information era...read more

In a changing employment climate and with the growth of demand for careers guidance at all stages of life, careers guidance practice has moved from its positivist world view, with the counsellor as expert and client as passive responder, to more holistic ‘constructivist’ approaches. In essence, these approaches view the career as a holistic concept in which work and personal life are inextricably intertwined, and individuals are experts in their own lives, actively constructing their careers. The first to fully explore the constructivist approach, this book: provides a theoretical background to constructivism outlines a range of constructivist approaches to career counselling gives examples of the practical application of constructivism. Essential for anyone involved in career guidance wishing to learn more about this vital new approach, this book combines theory with practicable guidance, and represents a new direction for career counselling.

Product Description: The Systems Theory Framework was developed to produce a metatheoretical framework through which the contribution of all theories to our understanding of career behaviour could be recognised. In addition it emphasises the individual as the site for the integration of theory and practice...read more

Product Description: In a groundbreaking departure from traditional career counseling texts, authors Wendy Patton and Mary McMahon have developed a comprehensive book that uses General Systems Theory to unify the many approaches to career development...read more

Product Description: Over 5000 job contacts in the Pittsburgh and Western Pa. Metro Area,including small and large companies, Fortune 500 corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and internships. Co-authored by the University of Pittsburgh Placement Services, the book also includes job search strategies, interviewing techniques, sample resumes and cover letters, job web-sites and hotlines, industry publications, employment agencies, how to relocate, where to live, and more...read more

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Product Description: Job Source provides information you need to make contact. Covering dozens of corporate industries, as well as non-profit organizations, alumni associations, government agencies, Capitol Hill and many more. Job Source provides hiring contact names and telephone numbers, website addresses and job hotlines in a detailed, organized and user-friendly format...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)