Product Description: This revised edition of Zunkers successful text continues to provide students with a foundation in career development principles and concepts. The book translates theoretical principles of career development and research into practical counseling objectives, programs, and strategies...read more

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Explains how to succeed in today's competitive and constantly shifting job market by perfecting the tailored pitch, the personal pitch, the power pitch, and the team pitch

Considered to be a classic in the field. The most comprehensive survey and evaluation of the major theories dealing with how an individual's career develops.

This revised edition of Zunkers successful text continues to provide students with a foundation in career development principles and concepts. The book translates theoretical principles of career development and research into practical counseling objectives, programs, and strategies. The historical development of the field is covered, as well as computer use of tests, and how to use DOT (Dictionary of Occupational Titles). The book covers career guidance over the life-span, including career guidance for school age children, college students, and adults in career transition. Procedures for planning and using a career resource center are also included..

Explains what career counselling actually is, why people seek it, and indicates the many contexts where it is used. This second edition examines the issues typically brought to career counselling, and also includes a chapter on the role of career counselling within organisations.

Product Description: An invaluable preparatory guide for entering today’s global business and industrial world, this informative, sophisticated, and entertaining book informs readers about the nature of work in modern society. Focusing on the practical and applied knowledge, it shows how industrial-organizational psychology directly influence our lives as job applicants, trainees, employees, managers, and consumers...read more

Since keeping up with new developments in vocational psychology is important to both psychological practitioners and researchers, this volume is devoted to presenting and evaluating important advances in the field. More specifically, this handbook: * makes readers aware of the theoretical, research and applied aspects of the field; * familiarizes them with a variety of techniques, procedures, and theories available for vocational assessment; and * realistically assesses the significance of vocational psychology for professional functioning and for societal development.

Product Description: Durante los más de quince años que han transcurrido desde su publicación, Los 7 hábitos de la gente altamente efectiva se ha convertido en un fenómeno internacional con más de quince millones de ejemplares vendidos. En las esferas de la empresa, el gobierno, la educación, la familia y, más importante aún, en la esfera personal, decenas de millones de personas han mejorado espectacularmente su vida y sus organizaciones aplicando los principios del clásico de Stephen R...read more

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The fourth edition of Career Choice and Development brings together the most current ideas of the recognized authorities in the field of career development. This classic best-seller has been thoroughly revised and expanded to include the most influential theories of career choice and development, and it contains up-to-date information regarding the application of these theories to counseling practice. This edition contains a wide range of career development theories that explore how people develop certain traits, personalities, self-precepts, and how these developments influence career decision making. This information will challenge teachers, researchers, and those involved in fostering career development to reexamine their assumptions and practices. (view table of contents)

Thoroughly updated and revised, a practical handbook designed to help readers find a career that suits their individual personality type includes workbook exercises, specific job search strategies, and information on today's hottest career tracks in growth areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media, and telecommunications. Original.

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This volume, prepared in honor of Samuel H. Osipow, a prominent teacher, researcher, author, and pioneer in vocational psychology, deals with significant theoretical and practical issues in the field of vocational psychology. As a state-of-the-art review of contemporary models of vocational psychology, this book will provide current and up-to-date coverage of the topics. It will also contain in-depth reviews of models of vocational psychology by leading scholars, including career decision making models, career self-efficacy, occupational stress, cross-cultural assessment of interests, and career counseling services within university systems. A major theme that runs throughout all chapters is the concept of change. This unifying theme is fitting since the authors have prepared their chapters in honor of Osipow, who has significantly changed the field over the last four decades. This volume should serve as a valuable resource for vocational psychology researchers, counseling graduate students, and career counselors. In addition to being a professional text, it should also be a useful supplement text for career development and career counseling courses in graduate programs of counseling, counseling psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology. (view table of contents)

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Explains how family expectations about careers and work are passed from generation to generation, revealing how these expectations affect roles, relationships, and values on the job and how readers can achieve their own personal goals and dreams. Reprint. 10,000 first printing (view table of contents)

Drawing on the healing powers of writing, a guide to coming to terms with the emotional and psychological impact of sudden unemployment helps prepare you for the process of seeking a new job or career. Original. (view table of contents)

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A practical and empowering guide for readers who have lost their jobs may also appeal to individuals who are contemplating leaving their jobs, with stories of those who experienced unemployment and have developed greater happiness and satisfaction despite the odds. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)