Career Success
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2021
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2021
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2025
Edition: 4
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 268
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Career Success by Marsha Fralick:
- This fourth edition features an updated chapter on career satisfaction and success.
- Concepts from positive psychology are used to help students assume responsibility for career planning, increase motivation, build on their strengths, think positively about the future, and clarify what happiness means to them.
- This textbook helps students increase self-understanding by exploring their personality types, multiple intelligences, skills, interest, and values, along with matching careers.
- Vocational assessment includes the TruTalent Personality, Multiple Intelligences, and Skills assessments. The O*Net Interest Profiler is also integrated into the textbook.
- An online career portfolio summarizes the results of the assessments and provides links to the O*Net database of careers as well as links ot current available jobs at Indeed.com.
- Material is provided to help students set goals based on personality type, interests, values and multiple intelligences.
- Information is provided on current career trends, the career decision making process educational planning, and researching career information and outlook.
- Updated job search strategies include online personal branding and using social media and other online job search tools.
- Interactive activities within the text help students to practice the material learned.
- Frequent quizzes and answer keys withing the chapters help students with reading comprehension and check understanding of key concepts.
- Journal entries help students think critically and apply what they have learned to their personal lives.
- An interactive online edition, Career Success Online, is available.
- Individual and group exercises are included at the end of each chapter.
- The College Success Website at www.collegesuccess1.com has resources for faculty and students including interactive exercises, handouts, and resources that engage students in learning and make teaching easier.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1 Create Your Success
Learning Objectives
What Is Career Success?
Choosing Your Major and Finding Your Ideal Career
Using Motivation to Increase Your Success
What Is the Value of a College Education?
Intrinsic or Extrinsic Motivation
Thinking Positively about the Future
Taking Control of Your Life
Locus of Control
Successful Beliefs
Visualize Your Success
Secrets to Happiness
Keys to Success: Learn to Laugh at Life
Journal Entries: Create Your Success
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
2 Exploring Your Personality and Major
Learning Objectives
Choose a Major That Matches Your Gifts and Talents
Understanding Personality Types
Extraversion or Introversion
Sensing or Intuition
Thinking or Feeling
Judging or Perceiving
Personality and Preferred Work Environment
Personality and Decision Making
Personality and Time Management
Personality and Career Choice
Other Factors in Choosing a Major
Keys to Success: Find Your Passion
Journal Entries: Exploring Interests and Values
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
3 Exploring Interests and Values
Learning Objectives
Exploring Your Interests
Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional
Interests and Lifestyle
Using Values to Make Important Life Decisions
Keys to Success: Act on Your Values
Journal Entries: Exploring Interests and Values
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
4 Exploring Your Multiple Intelligences
Learning Objectives
Your Mindset Makes a Difference
Activity: What Is Your Mindset?
Grit: A Powerful Tool for Student Success
Activity: How Gritty Are You?
What Are Multiple Intelligences?
Build on Your Strengths
Using Emotional Intelligence
Keys to Success: Persistence and Grit
Journal Entries: Exploring Your Multiple Intelligences
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
5 Planning Your Career and Education
Learning Objectives
Keep Your Eyes on the Future
Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and the New Generation Alpha
Career Trends 2024–2030
Artificial Intelligence
Working from Home
Flexibility
Diversity at Work
Preference for Soft Skills
Green Jobs
Finance and Business
Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Higher Earnings in STEM Occupations
Increased Need for Education
Increasing Opportunities in Healthcare, Social Service, Computer, and Mathematical Occupations
Declining Careers in Manufacturing, Retail Trade, Sales, and Administrative Support
Work Skills for the 21st Century
Foundation Skills
Thinking Skills
Workplace Competencies
Reflecting on Your Life Purpose
My Life Purpose Statement
How to Research Your Career
Career Descriptions
Career Outlook
Planning Your Education
Making Good Decisions
Steps in Making a Career Decision
The Decision-Making Process
Keys to Success: Life Is a Dangerous Opportunity
Journal Entries: Planning Your Career and Education
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
6 Updated Job Search Strategies
Learning Objectives
Increasing Your Chances for Employment
Using Your College Career Services
Volunteering
Internships
Working While in College
Get Started with a Resume and Cover Letter
Establishing Your Personal Brand Online
Define Your Brand
Manage Your Online Presence
Set up a Nameplate Website
Using Online Tools
LinkedIn
Facebook
Indeed.com
Classified Ads
Job Search Engines
Employment Agencies
Using Email to Find a Job
The Job Interview
Informational Interviewing
Starting Your Own Business
Taking Action
Keys to Success: Create Your Future
Journal Entries: Updated Job Search Strategies
Success over the Internet
Notes
Sample Cover Letter
Sample Resume for a Recent College Graduate
Exercises
7 Career Satisfaction
Learning Objectives
Find Your Passion
Finding Meaning in Your Work
Money and Job Satisfaction
Money Is Important
Money Is Not So Important
Predictors of Job Satisfaction
How to Be Successful in Your Job
Essential Work Skills for 2020 and Beyond
Emotional Intelligence and Career Success
Communication for Career Success
Some Barriers to Effective Communication
Some Tips for Career Success
What Are My Lifetime Goals?
A Goal or a Fantasy?
Use Priorities to Guide Your Actions
Some Positive Thoughts for the Future
Keys to Success: You Are What You Think
Journal Entries: Create Your Success
Success over the Internet
Notes
Exercises
Index
Dr. Marsha Fralick has been recognized as an Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition for excellence in teaching, curriculum development, and leadership over the last 43 years. She has brought together research in psychology, education, neuroscience, health, and career development to provide students with strategies for college, career, and lifelong success. Her college and career success materials are now used by community colleges and universities nationwide and in Canada. She has a doctorate from the University of Southern California with an emphasis in career counseling, a master’s degree in counseling from the University of Redlands, and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and English from Arizona State University. She has a passion for helping students achieve their goals and dreams in life through developing a positive self-concept and increasing both their skills and motivation to achieve success.