Turning Points: Your Career Decision Making Guide (3rd Edition)

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Turning Points is a practical resource that covers self-assessment, career exploration, job search, and goal-setting.

 

It has been revised to provide updated  advice on uncovering job and internship leads, creating resumes and cover letters, and interviewing effectively. Networking skills are emphasized, and the value of college internships is highlighted. Effective goal-setting techniques are introduced. Educational decisions are presented as a crucial dimension of career development. To increase student awareness of why career opportunities are now in constant flux, examples of globalization and rapid technological innovation are interwoven throughout the text. There is a stronger focus on helping both traditional college-age and adult students present their skills effectively. The Instructor's Manual contains the text's major activities that can be posted on a course management system, chapter PowerPoints, assignments appropriate for ePortfolios, and a test bank.

Features

• Students have a variety of activities to assess their interests, skills, personality, and values so that they will be better able to evaluate career options and make sound decisions. The new reflective essays help personalize the material.
• The activities using the ASAP approach have been substantially revised providing more support for first- and second-year students, especially students from non-traditional backgrounds (e.g., first-generation college students, returning adults, veterans, ESL students, and academically underprepared students). The process of researching careers seems less daunting to students, and they will get more meaningful results. Chapters 1, 4 & 5 use the four-step ASAP method for gathering information.
• Students see how to find accurate, up-to-date information using the tool they turn to most readily, the Internet.
• Students are introduced to a unique model of decision-making that will be useful throughout their careers.
• Students, particularly first-generation and international students, understand how selecting college major and deciding whether to go on for further education are linked to the career-planning process.
• Students learn how to increase their skills and maximize their learning as well as engage in professional development in the workplace.
• Students discover strategies that will help them deal with changes brought on by technological, social and economic forces.
• Students are drawn to the text because they see it as interesting and relevant to their needs. The variety of elements appeals to different learning styles and preferences.
• The activities are designed to promote students' critical thinking skills so that they can make educated comparisons between options, find themes and patterns, and reflect on their findings.
• Helps students build face-to-face networking skills that are beneficial both during a job search and on the job. In becoming aware of how potential employers search social-networking sites for "digital dirt" (e.g., inappropriate photos and jokes), students learn what to do (and not to do) during a job search. Ex. Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8 & 13: Informational interview activities; Chapter 8: subsection "Networking: The Key to the Hidden Job Market" (on social-networking sites); Chapter 13: How to Develop a Strong Career Network.
• After making a career or education decision, students often are confused about how to turn their dreams into reality. This brand-new chapter shows students the most effective goal-setting strategies. Students are guided to create a career-development plan. Ex. Chapter 12.
• Students obtain a boost in self-confidence when they realize that they have skills employers value. Understanding their character strengths helps them see that they have personal qualities that are important in the workplace. When students complete skill self-assessments to identify their skills, they are better prepared to create winning resumes and to interview more effectively. Ex. Chapters 3, 9 & 10.
• Mind maps preview chapter material in a visual format. Key Points reinforce the major concepts at the end of each chapter. Students will find it easier to grasp and understand the main ideas.
• Instructors will spend less time creating activities and lectures related to the text’s key concepts. Students are able to easily and more efficiently complete course-related activities using common software programs. Ex. Instructor's Manual.

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