Product Description: This year, nearly 2 million bachelors' degrees will be awarded from colleges across the U.S. After graduation, most of the students earning those degrees will head into the job market to seek employment in their chosen professions...read more

Written in an engaging style, the authors cover a full range of career development topics and essential competencies to provide readers with a comprehensive introduction to career development interventions. It uses numerous case examples that demonstrate t how concepts can be applied to real-life scenarios. Chapter topics cover understanding and applying theories of career development, career development and diverse populations, career counseling strategies and techniques for the 21st century, career information and resources, using technology to support career counseling and planning, designing and implementing career development programs and services, career development interventions in schools and community settings, ethical and legal issues in career development interventions, and an evaluation of career planning services. For individuals preparing for a professional practice as a career counselor.

Product Description: How to become a hot property in the competitive job market Filled with self-check questions, exercises, and case studies, this guide will help readers seeking jobs to understand themselves and improve their chances of a fulfilling career...read more

Product Description: Maintaining the practical, interactive focus of the series, this book comprises a collection of case studies of best practice from around the world, covering different situations, environments and course types. They include key areas such as skills, research, supervision, curriculum change and development, support services, implementing change, leadership, quality assurance and improvement and accreditation...read more

Product Description: Maintaining the practical and interactive focus of the series, this book features a collection of case studies of best practice from around the world, covering different situations, environments and course types. They include key areas such as skills, research, supervision and curriculum change and development, support services, implementing change, leadership, quality assurance and improvement and accreditation...read more

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Product Description: Fast track route to jump-starting your career Covers key career management techniques, from lifelong learning to getting promoted, and from surviving office politics to goal setting Packed with lessons and tips from great careers and ideas from great thinkers like Charles Handy Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: `To career used to mean to swerve wildly or to go swiftly. In this beautifully argued, richly documented, original, liberating work, Arthur, Inksen, and Pringle demonstrate that the new careers once more are about swift swerves, unexpected agency, and enacted opportunities and constraints...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a nine-step systematic plan that encompasses creating a dynamic image, adopting behaviors of successful women, and knowing when and how to take risks. Reprint. PW.

The editor-in-chief of Redbook magazine shows businesswomen how to talk like winners, face trouble directly, take smart risks, and bend the rules to their own advantage, offering personal anecdotes from forty high-profile career women.

Product Description: Your desire to lead a life of purpose and achievement can be realized! No matter what your age, you can switch tracks and find a career that leads to success because it's right for you. Career counselor John Bradley says you can evaluate your assets and manage your life direction - even after years spent in the wrong occupation...read more

Product Description: A nine-month long workplace literacy programme at a southern hospital is the setting for Sheryl Greenwood Gowen's case study "The Politics of Workplace Literacy". Using ethnographic techniques, story-telling, and carefully documented observations of workplace relations, the author brings this literacy programme to life, illustrating how classism, racism and sexism continue to be part of the workplace environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)