Careers in Action
Edition: 6
Copyright: 2016
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Careers in Action can be used as a reference over the next few years as one moves through different stages in their career planning efforts. Refer to it for help in information interviewing, networking, resume writing, and job interviewing.
In a NEW 6th Edition, Careers in Action by John B. Scanlan features:
- Ideas on presenting peer to peer work experience
- Resume examples veering the latest career options
- A CD with Excel formulas for worksheets
- Job search strategies, the power of LinkedIn, most common career planning mistakes, and MORE!
Chapter One: Who Are You and What Do You Want?
Career Traps
Theoretical Underpinnings
Decision Making: Planful or Painful?
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Chapter Two: Keys to Self-Assessment
Who Are You?
Vocational Self-Concept
Special Considerations
Interests: Can’t I Do What I Like?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Skills
O*NET Is Your Friend
How Holland and O*Net Match Up
Actors, Producers, and Directors
Values: What Is Really Important to You?
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Career Blocks Inventory
Achievement Experiences Skills Exercise
Skills Assessment Grid
Work Values Inventory
Prioritizing Grid
Chapter Three: The College Years
Freedom and Responsibility
Choosing a Major
Internships and Cooperative Education
Student Leadership
A Word About Portfolios
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Student Organization
Chapter Four: People, Paper, and Pixel Chase
Information Interviews
What Do I Need to Know About?
Shadowing
Paper Chase
Pixels, Anyone?
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Information Interview Evaluation Worksheet
Shadowing Evaluation Worksheet
Chapter Five: Put Yourself on Paper
Basic Principles of Résumé Writing
Three Simple Rules: One Page . . . , Ten Years . . . , Perfect
Your Entire Life Flashes Before You
Tell Us About Your Education
What Have You Done?
What Do You Want? The Most Difficult Phrase You’ll Ever Write
Veterans—Welcome to Your Next Mission: You
When Cover Letters Go Bad
Guidelines for Your Cover Letter
The Art of Follow-up: The Thank You Note
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Résumé Development Worksheet
Build a Cover Letter
Chapter Six: Sample Job Search Letters and Resumes
Cover Letter Examples
Résumé Model
Résumé Examples
Chapter Seven: Finding People Who Can Help
Meet the Beatles
Weaving Your Web
Cyber Networking
Building Your Personal Brand
Unleash the Power of LinkedIn
Networking 101: Put Your Plan into Action
Mixin’ and A-Mingling
Finding a Mentor
The Care and Feeding of References
Using Career Fairs
Business Cards
Networking No-No’s
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Networking Log
Personal Contact Network
Chapter Eight: Job Search Strategies
How Long Is This Going to Take?
Work at Home!
Researching Potential Employers
The Hidden Job Market
What To Do About Want Ads
What About Personnel Agencies?
Phone Friendly Job Search
World Wide Waste of Time?
Digital Dirt
What Can You Do About It?
Most Common Mistakes Committed by On-line Job Searchers
On the Move
What To Do if You Get Stuck
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Target Employers List
Contact Card
Daily Job Search Log
Job Search Phone Log
Chapter Nine: Interviewing
Interviewing as a Communication Process
What Do They Want From Me?
What’s It Take to Get a Job Around Here?
Lights, Camera, Interview!
Get the Exam Ahead of Time
Dress the Part
Overview of Interview Day
Nonverbal Communication
Bring in the Lawyers
Special Situations
The Second Interview
Show Me the Money: Salary Negotiations
Bloopers and Blunders
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Mock Interview Report
Chapter Ten: Entrepreneurship: On Your Own
Characteristics of Entrepreneurship
Skills for Entrepreneurs
Financing
Resources
Coaching
Failing
Passion
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Chapter Eleven: Career Shock: You’re Not in Class Anymore
Is It a Good Deal?
Analyze the Offer
A Word About Reneging
Wallets, Wishes, and Reality
Career Shock
What the Well Dressed Worker Is Wearing
Back to School!
Do the Right Thing
Ethical Decision Making
Why People Get Fired
Leaving a Job with Class
Summary
Questions and Exercises
Ethical Scenarios
Job Offer Evaluator
How Far Will My Paycheck Go?
Appendix A: Policies of Cooperative Education
Appendix B: Telephone Reference Checking Form
Appendix C: Equal Opportunity Law and Regulations
Appendix D: Resources for Ex-Offenders
Endnotes
Resources
Index
John B. Scanlan comes by his interest in writing honestly, as his mother was a book editor and newspaper reporter and his father a sales engineer who accepted his son’s lack of math aptitude. He reckons he is on his fourth career, having started as a high school teacher, moving into business, settling in higher education, and then retiring in 2012. For more than 25 years he has taught career courses and advised students in all academic majors. He and his late wife Kathy have three children happily launched in their careers, a fourteen year old grandson leaning toward the sciences, and a five year old grandson who seems to spend a lot of time on his mom’s cell phone.