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Creating Careers with Confidence by Edward Colozzi (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100135157897

ISBN-139780135157893

eBay Product ID (ePID)63177958

Product Key Features

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameCreating Careers with Confidence

Publication Year2008

SubjectCounseling / Career Development, Careers / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaEducation, Business & Economics

AuthorEdward Colozzi

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length10.9 in

Item Width8.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-022392

Reviews"Dr. Edward A. Colozzi's Creating Careers with Confidence offers much more than traditional career planning workbooks, and is a fresh approach to career exploration and planning that will capture the hearts and minds of its readers. It facilitates the discovery of one's calling and helps individuals understand the possibility of creating careers that offer personal meaning and fulfillment. It is an ideal workbook for individual clients, community groups, and students and stands out as one of the most engaging, inspiring, and worthwhile workbooks to be published in our field in the past decade." Complete Article > --Darrell A. Luzzo "In your Creating Careers with Confidence workbook, you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland's typology, My Rainbow , Bowlsbey's decision model, Prediger's world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment." --Donald E. Super, PH.D. "Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life's roles, and then how to get it!" --JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D., "In your Creating Careers with Confidence workbook you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland's typology, my rainbow, Bowlsbey's decision model, Prediger's world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment." --Donald E. Super, PH.D. "Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life's roles, and then how to get it!" --JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D., "Dr. Edward A. Colozzi's Creating Careers with Confidence offersmuch more than traditional career planning workbooks, andis a fresh approach to career exploration and planning that will capture the hearts and minds of its readers. Itfacilitates the discovery of one's calling and helps individuals understand the possibility of creating careers that offer personal meaning and fulfillment.It is an ideal workbook for individual clients, community groups, and students andstands out as one of the most engaging, inspiring, and worthwhile workbooks to be published in our field in the past decade." Complete Article > --Darrell A. Luzzo "In your Creating Careers with Confidence workbook, you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland's typology, My Rainbow , Bowlsbey's decision model, Prediger's world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment." --Donald E. Super, PH.D. "Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life's roles, and then how to get it!" --JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D., "Dr. Edward A. Colozzi's Creating Careers with Confidence offers much more than traditional career planning workbooks, and is a fresh approach to career exploration and planning that will capture the hearts and minds of its readers. It facilitates the discovery of one's calling and helps individuals understand the possibility of creating careers that offer personal meaning and fulfillment. It is an ideal workbook for individual clients, community groups, and students and stands out as one of the most engaging, inspiring, and worthwhile workbooks to be published in our field in the past decade." Complete Article > --Darrell A. Luzzo "In your Creating Careers with Confidence workbook, you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland's typology, My Rainbow , Bowlsbey's decision model, Prediger's world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment." --Donald E. Super, PH.D. "Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life's roles, and then how to get it!" --JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D. , "Dr. Edward A. Colozzi's Creating Careers with Confidence offers much more than traditional career planning workbooks, and is a fresh approach to career exploration and planning that will capture the hearts and minds of its readers. It facilitates the discovery of one's calling and helps individuals understand the possibility of creating careers that offer personal meaning and fulfillment. It is an ideal workbook for individual clients, community groups, and students and stands out as one of the most engaging, inspiring, and worthwhile workbooks to be published in our field in the past decade." Complete Article > --Darrell A. Luzzo "In yourCreating Careers with Confidenceworkbook, you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland's typology,My Rainbow, Bowlsbey's decision model, Prediger's world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment." --Donald E. Super, PH.D. "Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life's roles, and then how to get it!" --JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal370.1130973

Table Of ContentA Personal Letter To You From Me Contents Table of Exercises About the Author Acknowledgements The Choice INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW PART I SELF-KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOURSELF The Banyan Tree The Five-Minute Rainbow Connection: Adult Daydreaming Banyan Branches: My Interests Banyan Branches: My Skills Banyan Branches: My Values Banyan Branches Summary Codes My Sellf-Knowledge Code Review, Reflect, Reconnect: The Holland Connection PART II KEY CONCEPTS FOR MAKING SUCCESSFUL CAREER-LIFE DECISIONS The Reflective-Intuitive Decision-Making Process "The Ice Cream Cone": Applying the Reflective Intuitive Process How Reflective-Intuitive Decision Making Works The Career-Life Concept Evaluating My Present Career-Life Roles My Personal Career-Life Rainbow Personality-Environment Matches A Framework for Improved Career-Life Directions PART III THE WORLD OF WORK: WHERE THE JOBS ARE! The World-of-Work Map My Work Task Preferences My World-of-Work Regions Preference Examining the World-of-Work Map A World-of-Work Map Mini-Quiz PART IV MATCHING YOU WITH THE WORLD OF WORK Using My Holland Code to Match World-of-Work Regions and Career Areas My Two-Step Safety Net PART V LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE OCCUPATIONS THAT MATCH YOU Information Resources for Exploration Occupational Research The Informational Interview PART VI YOUR FUTURE CAREER-LIFE SITUATION Self-Knowledge and the Learning Process The Golden Coconut PART VII CREATING YOUR RAINBOW Your Best Next Step APPENDIX 1 CAREER-LIFE THEMES APPENDIX 2 IDEAL CAREER SCENARIO APPENDIX 3 PERSONAL PORTFOLIO

SynopsisCreating 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., 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.", 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.

LC Classification NumberLC1045