This resource book profiles 119 professional and technical occupations. Each profile lists up to 11 categories of career information: job descriptions; career guides; professional associations; standards/certification agencies; test guides and certification examinations; educational directories and programs; awards, scholarships, grants, and fellowships; basic reference guides and handbooks; professional and trade periodicals; professional meetings and conventions; and other sources of interest to professionals. Each entry also includes, as appropriate: organization, association, or publication name; contact information, including address, phone, toll-free, and facsimile numbers; author/editor, dates, and frequency; and brief description of purpose, services, or content--Highlights (p. vii).
Picking up where the Occupational Outlook Handbook leaves off, this text directs users to career information sources related to specific professions, such as civil engineering, psychology, law, public relations, dance and choreography, and more. It also provides a listing of US state professional and occupational licensing agencies and occupational rankings and statistics.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the literature and professional organizations that aid career planning and related research for 111 careers requiring college degrees or specialized education.
"Job seekers and career planners can turn first to Professional Careers Sourcebook to locate essential career planning sources. Profiled are 129 professional and technical occupations, ranging from account and architect to visual artist and writer. In addition to job descriptions and contact information" -- publisher website (October 2007).
Career profiles list general career guides, information and services provided by professional associations, standards and certification agencies, directories of educational programs and institutions, and titles of helpful books and magazines
Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic, Glaser gathered from the literature of occupational sociology those studies that bear most directly on organizational careers. His objective was to provide the first survey of the substantial body of data on the subject and to place this data in a framework that illustrates its significance for the development of theory. In an extensive introduction, the editor explains the several purposes of the book and describes in detail the process of comparative analysis through which sociological theory on organizational careers can be generated. Organized around general themes such as recruitment, motivation, commitment, mobility, and succession, the writings of prominent sociologists--including Riesman, Caplow, Hughes, Becker, and Wilensky--form the content of the book and systematically cover every important facet of organizational careers. The editor's introductions to each section of the book alert the reader to the general phenomena--such as processes, conditions, categories, hypotheses, and properties--that crosscut and are generally relevant to all organizational careers and are, therefore, the raw material of theory. These introductions also suggest questions and problems for further analysis and research. This book as a whole stands as a demonstration of the contributors' method of how the sociologist, working from the data of research, can generate grounded, formal theory on this or any social phenomenon. This book also presents a vital body of data on organizational careers and a guide to further research that will be of great use both to occupational sociologists and to all those involved in the study of organizations.
