Career Decision Making: A Systematic Approach is designed to help students learn a systematic process of decision making that can be utilized while in college or any time in the future when career changes or additional career choices are made.
Career Decision Making: A Systematic Approach benefits:
- students searching for a major and career path.
- students who have a general idea of what career path to take.
- students who want confirmation of their current career plans.
- individuals who want to change careers at a later time in their lives.
Career Decision Making: A Systematic Approach:
- emphasizes the significance of knowing how to navigate career choice.
- stresses the importance of flexibility in planning and in developing multi-dimensional skills.
- updates the projections about occupational outlook.
- provides additional electronic resources from which students can obtain current facts about the world of work.
Chapter One: Career Choice Journey: Connecting the Dots
Chapter Two: Elements of Effective Decision Making
Chapter Three: Self-Assessment: Interests
Chapter Four: Self-Assessment: Skills
Chapter Five: Self-Assessment: Personality
Chapter Six: Self-Assessment: Values
Chapter Seven: Examining Priorities and Synthesizing
Chapter Eight: Career Exploration
Chapter Nine: Making Decisions
Chapter Ten: Developing a Plan of Action
Chapter Eleven: Clueless and Other Uncertainties: Changing Mind-Sets
Appendix A: Career Investigation Exercises
Appendix B: Career Analysis
Appendix C: Sources for Career Exploration
Appendix D: Self-Assessment/Decision Making
Appendix E: Self-Assessment/Decision Making Examples
Appendix F: Informational Interview Form
Appendix G: Supplemental Articles on Changing Majors
Appendix H: Supplemental Resources of Myths About Major and Career Choice
Appendix I: Supplemental Resources for Top Jobs in 2013