The Sundance Writer
The Sundance Writer

Author: Mark Connelly

Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780155071551

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The Sundance Writer is a comprehensive rhetoric/reader/research guide and grammar handbook all in one reasonably priced paperback text. This textAEs origin is the successful Sundance Reader by Mark Connelly and incorporates the majority of the readerAEs material into the reader portion of The Sundance Writer."

Using Labor Market Information in Career Exploration and Decision Making
Using Labor Market Information in Career Exploration and Decision Making

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Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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This self-study curriculum guide is intended to assist counselors and teachers in learning to use labor market and career information with clients more effectively. The following topics are covered: understanding career development and the use of career and labor market information in career counseling (changing ideas about career development, the role of theory, classification of theories as structural or developmental, and career development theories and career counseling); understanding the labor market (the basic model of the labor market and modifications of the concepts of supply and demand); exploring labor market information sources and systems (major state and federal sources, career information delivery systems, and nongovernmental sources); exploring labor market information resources and products (including discussions of 17 major resources); using labor market information in career counseling (occupational questions and resources and career counseling case studies); and developing a professional plan of action (professional, information, and community development). Appendixes include additional labor market information resources, guidelines for preparing and evaluating career information literature, designated vocational/career competency areas, introductions to the military services and the American labor movement, networking resources for establishing lines of communication, a glossary, and lists of acronyms and additional resources. (MN)

Careercycles
Careercycles

Author: John Caple

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: A conversational approach, replete with numerous examples, provides practical guidelines to assist individuals in assessing where they stand in their working career, and how to utilize the concept that careers pass through recurring cyclic changes for optimizing success. Traditional career maps vs. the career cycles concept, the motivation of discontentment, inner and outer self exploration, and decisions of career commitment and of career change are presented. Proven tips concerning succeeding at job interviews, ways to get the type of work desired, how to set new goals after advancements or setbacks, and when to take risks are also discussed. Information on 20 guidelines for use through the career cycles, a 20-question career quiz, and aspects of career counseling is appended. (wz).

Job Search
Job Search

Author: Robert D. Lock

Publisher: Brooks Cole

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780534340018

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Job Search, Third Edition, the second book in Lock's three-book career planning series, is a comprehensive guide to what an individual must do to find employment. The Third Edition presents the latest information available to help readers select and plan a successful job search, including new information on occupational alternatives, skills, and training requirements. Lock provides the ''nuts and bolts'' of job hunting. The developing sources of job leads, completing employment applications, preparing resumes and cover letters, and interviewing techniques. And he gives readers much more: a discussion of how to understand corporate culture, an in-depth look at how to examine different geographic areas for growth in population and employment opportunities, how to evaluate employment offers, and how to develop the skills necessary to keep a job.

Thirty Days to a Good Job
Thirty Days to a Good Job

Author: Hal Gieseking

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1994-04-26

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1439136661

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This positive, highly focused program provides you with an accelerated schedule that reduces the conventional six- to twelve-month job-search "sleepwalk" into a well-thought-out blitz. In what is the first really fresh job-hunting idea since What Color is Your Parachute?, 30 Days to a Good Job puts you on a strategic, systematic 30-day program that leaves you no time to become discouraged. This positive, highly focused program provides you with an accelerated schedule that reduces the conventional six- to twelve-month job-search "sleepwalk" into a well-thought-out blitz that gets you not one but a half-dozen contacts in each of your prospective companies and up to 150 job contacts in a single month. 30 Days to a Good Job will show you: How to arm yourself with the most effective self-marketing techniques to beat out the competition; How to use a highly structured 30-Day Job Planning Calendar, complete with specific assignments to perform daily; How to speed up your job search by employing Job Prospect Cards (listing company names and key decision-makers within the organization), Life Experience Cards (documenting work, education, and social experiences to help individualize resumes and cover letters), and a Contact Notebook (featuring pertinent information for follow-up letters and phone calls); How to develop your own original, hand-tailored letters and resumes as adjuncts to the all-important and decisive job interviews; How to computerize your job search.