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>CAREER PLANNING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Donald Blocher, State University of New York at Albany
Mary Heppner, University of Missouri
Joe Johnston, University of Missouri

This is not the typical career planning book! Instead of taking you through rote assignments and trying to match you up with “a job,” Career Planning for the Twenty-First Century helps you build a life in which you are living your greatest passions every day, a life of unbelievable richness and meaning. It pushes you to reach deep within yourself for a map to your own unique life journey and then explore the work world in search of places and situations where you can thrive.

Special Features

  • Explores the basic concepts of life planning, the changing world of careers, and the process of exploring that world
  • Helps the reader clarify personal values and set both general life goals and specific career goals
  • Looks at the influence of gender on career development and the challenges of living and working in a diverse and multicultural world
  • Gives practical guidance on building a healthy and resilient lifestyle in which one can confront and overcome obstacles
  • Covers the nuts and bolts of writing resumés, preparing for interviews, and searching for opportunities
  • Provides exercises and inventories that help the reader choose directions for exploration, goal-setting and goal attainment

Contents

1. Getting a Life: Empowerment Through Planning
2. The World of Work: New Paradigms Mean New Challenges
3. Exploring Possibilities, Probabilities, and Choices
4. Planning Across the Life Span
5. The Gendered Context of Our Career Choices
6. Understanding Cultural Diversity: Implications for the Workforce
7. What in My Life Is Worth Striving For?
8. Goal-Setting
9. Reality-Testing Goals, Generating Commitments, and Mobilizing Resources
10. Taking Care of You So You Can Take Care of Business
11. Confronting Obstacles
12. Making It All Happen

228 pages
2001/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-271-9
$34.95

     
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