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The Bound-for-College Guidebook is a step-by-step guide to the
student transition from high school to postsecondary education,
including the self-awareness, exploration, goal-setting,
decision-making, application and enrollment stages that must be
successfully navigated to ensure the best results. This edition
addresses the recent changes and adjustments that have been made in
the college admission process, as well as those that have occurred
as a result of the Varsity Blues Admission Scandal and forced by
the coronavirus pandemic.
Career Challenges examines the career development encounters that
people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a
comprehensive examination of the career development process and why
these eight phases must be understood in order for career success
and satisfaction to be achieved. This analysis is followed by a
meticulous treatment of more than two dozen significant challenges
that members of the workforce must confront and resolve as they
navigate their life experience. The career challenges examine the
right and wrong ways to move through career development and address
everything from conducting an effective job search and knowing how
to manage career growth and mobility to essential tasks like
preparing a resume, managing an interview' and dealing with job
stagnation, change, or loss. Added to this edition are two new
chapters dealing with the changing nature of work, worker, and
workplace in a high technology, post COVID world. Throughout the
book, the author sets life-work balance as a paramount individual
goal and outlines strategies about how this illusive objective can
be achieved. Career Challenges is the next best thing to having a
professional career counselor or recruiter in the room. While
written for the individual experiencing the various life and career
experiences, this book is also of significant value to counselors,
search and staffing professionals, educators, and others playing
important roles in these transitions. Career Challenges is the
reader's map or GPS to a successful and satisfying career.
The Bound-for-Career Guidebook views career identification,
selection, entry, and progression as part of a larger developmental
process-the career development process. In this guidebook for
adolescents and young adults, the author outlines the experiences
and tasks that will facilitate the career development process and
lead to satisfaction and success. The reader will be exposed to the
various educational and career transitions they must consider on
the path to the workplace and specific guidance is offered on how
to maximize entry and advancement. Along the career exploration,
decision-making, and preparation path, the author answers
frequently asked questions and offers an array of facts and myths
that need to be considered. Empowered individuals are better able
to guide themselves through their personal career journey. The
reader's command of the information in the Bound-for-Career
Guidebook will give them that power!
The Bound-for-College Guidebook, now in its second edition,
addresses the high school to college transition from A to Z. The
guidebook provides students and parents with the information and
tools they need for effective exploration, decision-making and
application for admission and financial aid. The student exercises
offered throughout the book help the student create a personal
college guidance portfolio and the dozens of Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs) address everything a student wants to ask and a
few he/she didn't think to ask. It is "must" reading before and
throughout the high school-to-college navigation process. The
Bound-for-College Guidebook is the perfect study guide for
counselors and educators to use in conducting workshops or classes
on the school-to-college transition.
Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career
Development examines the career development encounters that
people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a
comprehensive examination of the career development process and why
these eight phases must be understood in order for career
satisfaction and success to be achieved. This analysis is followed
by a meticulous treatment of 26 things active members of the
workforce “do wrong” or “don’t do” in pursuit of their
career ambitions. Conducting an effective job search, dealing with
job loss or termination, and how best to prosper in the workplace,
are among the subjects included. Throughout the book, the author
sets life-work balance as a paramount goal and outlines strategies
about how this illusive objective can be achieved. Career
Errors is the next best thing to having a professional career
counselor or recruiter in the room. While written for the
individual experiencing the various life and work activities, this
book is also of significant value to counselors, search and
staffing professionals, educators, and others playing important
roles in these transitions
The Bound-for-College Guidebook offers information about the
school-to-college transition in an organized and reader-friendly
approach not found in any other guide. Frank Burtnett has assembled
frequently asked questions and their answers from counselors who
understand what students need to know during the exploration,
decision-making and application process. The student exercises
contained in the guide allow each reader to strategically organize
the search and application process and operate from a position of
power and control rather than one of confusion and bewilderment.
Armed with this information and skilled in these exercises, the
college-bound student is better able to navigate this important
transition.
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