Creating Careers with Confidence Review

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(More customer reviews)Dr. Colozzi has created a workbook which truly allows you to look past the current paradigms you have created in your life and get to the truth of where your talents, values, passions, calling, interests and skills intersect! It is with the meeting of these understandings about yourself that you obtain the vision and confidence to go after the career of your dreams!
Often times, we feel that we must fit into the mold of whatever generic job we see out there, and we forget to think out of the box of what we can create OR to look into a totally different arena of the world of work that is a better fit! The sky is the limit if you take the time to understand your own potential and your passion!
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is searching for a career that does more than pay the bills. If you want to live an inspired life...this is a great first step!!!!


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Creating Careers with Confidence inspires careers and empowers lives as it reflects on life story themes and uses the best of career development theory and practice. Its main focus is helping students discover careers that provide meaning and purpose in addition to income, balance, and fulfillment across various life roles. This self-paced workbook covers essential career management topics such as self-awareness, world-of-work information, person-job matching, networking, decision-making, resume writing, job interviews, and an activity-packed appendix that includes time and stress management strategies. Plus a portfolio summary facilitates academic advising that is useful for informed course selection. The book's tone is practical and engaging and its points are amplified by the various inspirational quotes throughout.

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Ready for Takeoff A Winning Process for Launching Your Engineering Career (Esource: The Prentice Hall Engineering Source) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're being exposed to interesting opportunities, but aren't sure which factors are the most important when deciding, you may find this book valuable. A concise guide for those who are aiming several levels higher than their current position.
A great read.

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Ready for Takeoff is an appropriate companion text for all courses in engineering, and for engineering professionals.Your career in Engineering is about to take off. There is simply no other book on the market like Ready for Takeoff. Author Dean Millar uses plain English, specific examples, and insights from industry experts to explain the steps you need to take to identify, and then go after, the engineering job that's right for you. Part I of this unique book starts by helping you assess your own unique skills and abilities and understand how they match opportunities in the job market. The author then explains the basics of a successful job hunt, including how to write a resume that sells your skills, using your university's career center to your advantage, and nailing the interview. Part II offers career advice and expectations from 32 industry insiders like CEOs and Engineering Directors, and explores career development. Finally, Part III covers the finer points of success in your field such as leadership, motivation, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.

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Job Searcher's Handbook, The (4th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a college professor who teaches a career course and found this book to be good enough to use in the classroom. It covers all aspects of the job search and does a great job asking insightful questions of the reader. There are many pages of fill-in-the-blank questions where the reader can prioritize, set goals, and conjure up strengths. It is a very practical guide in helping someone search for a job, whatever stage of their career they may be in.

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This book is designed to provide simple, step by step instructions to help the student through the entire job searching process. Completely up-to-date, the book offers more information on the global workplace environment, electronic resumes, and Internet resources than any other text on the market. Its easy to follow, direct approach makes this book an effective tool for the job search. Hands-on exercises allow students to determine their individual needs, skills, and direction for securing the job that is right for them; sequentially-arranged chapters guide instructors in a logical process to the successful completion of a course.

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Organizational Behavior Reader, The (9th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)"The organizational behavior reader" contains twenty chapters, each with two or three readings by recognized academic experts, usually adapted from the original source, e.g., Harvard Business Review. Chapters begin with the psychological contract (1), theories of managing people (2), individual and organizational learning (3), individual and organizational motivation (4), ethics and values (5), personal growth and work stress (6), and later topics include managing diversity (12), leadership (13), decision making (15), performance appraisal (18), and managing change (20). The pantheon of authors features experts such as Henry Mintzberg, Jay Conger, Denise Rousseau, Ed Lawler, Peter Senge, Cary Cooper, Deborah Tannen, Geert Hofstede, Hank Sims, Victor Vroom, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Ray Miles, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. There are numerous charts, diagrams, graphs and models. Anecdotes and examples are plentiful. Self-assessments are rare. Few of the readings offer empirical data; the emphasis is on mental models, images, and concepts.
Professors of organizational behavior, looking for readings rather than integrated text, exercises, and cases, as well as a less expensive alternative to traditional college textbooks, will find this book appealing. These authors are, in general, engaging and highly readable. Chapters can be assigned in an order or avoided altogether to please the teacher's preferences. The breadth of topics, the currency of the treatments, and the expertise of the authors provide a solid foundation for the primary college OB course. Graduate students in need of less text structure and faculty in need of less ancillary materials will find the most benefit.
The book is rooted in social psychology and emphasizes perception, learning, thinking, images and personality, e.g., interpersonal communication, attribution, creativity. There is less on the `behavior' side of organizational behavior. Several authors use the device of posing `myths' to contrast with the author's learned, alternative state (`fact'), and sometimes the myths read more like `conventional wisdom' or the author's own attempt to make his or her point more vivid by presenting a myth that exists only in the minds of a few people. For business school students, this reader is more about organizations and people than about business. Business faculty and courses adopting this book will likely want and need to provide a management context.

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For courses in Organizational Behavior, Individual Behavior in Organizations, and Industrial Psychology.This reader provides the best collection of classic, ground-breaking articles, as well as cutting-edge works in the field in a practical, reader-friendly format to support your experiential OB classroom.

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