The Career Planning Guide, Planning Adulting is a motivational workbook designed to help you find inspiration and direction. Find the career you deserve through a specific, step by step format. Through only 10 Chapters you will be guided to explore your past, present and discover your goals to use them planning your future. Use this direct, specific method to educate, understand and motivate yourself to reach your full potential in a successful career. This guide is the first step toward a more rewarding life through exercises and guided reflection. It can be used to choose a Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) and separations, College degree major and as a college guide, avenue for self-employment, become an entrepreneur, navigate new business enterprises, overcome life obstacles and depression, job hunt, find yourself (self-help), resumes, interviewing & confidence building, knowing and pushing your limits, goal setting and understanding the reasons behind them, becoming a more positive person, retirement planning and so much more. The purpose for this guide is to inspire. Not for me to inspire you, but for you to inspire yourself. To find a direction to head towards, and the motivation to do so. By the end of this guide it is my goal for you to have a clear understanding of what career you want during your pursuit of happiness. You may be a high school student, college student, or already in the work force. You may have children, responsibilities, and maybe even reasons you are telling yourself you cannot make a change to find the career you deserve to have. This is not the case. We all have options - sometimes it's the vast sea of options we have that can debilitate us from deciding a direction to go. Fear not, we're going to "weigh" these options on the scale of life. You may be reading this description deciding if this book is right for you. I am proof that this guide works, and the time taken to follow this steppingstone is worth every second. It is not my intention to put you inside my strange head, but to help you use my research and planning skills in your own mind to find your own North Star. So, who am I? Some "young buck" from New York trying to give everybody advice? Negative ghost rider. I have done well, but I'm not the type of person to flaunt it or enjoy talking about it. I am grateful for what I have and may be the happiest person alive. One of my goals is to help others rise to their potential -by helping them find what direction that potential may be best pointed. I simply want to show you how I bought my first investment house and $20,000 motor home at 22 and finished my bachelor's at 23 while Active Duty in the Marine Corps. How I became my franchises' "youngest franchisee ever" at 24, bought my second house, first commercial property, started two more businesses...and so much more through the years. Now, do I promise you will make your first $1,000,000 before 30 and it will be easy? Nope. Not every career is for everyone, hence this guide. If money is your direct objective, strap in; while this guide is not for becoming rich, it may help you find the career you deserve to get you there. This guide will require you to develop a vow to yourself and to spend real, true, American blood, sweat and tears to complete it. Remember, I spent 6 years on and off writing this guide. Determination is going to be needed. Let's use a clear-cut, kiln dried, hog tied method to get you where you want to be, and then create a plan to make it so. Take this journey step by step, chapter by chapter and remove interruptions and distractions when you do so. When an idea or thought pops in your head put it on my copyrighted chart included in this guide. There are many guides, but THIS ONE IS YOURS!

This comprehensive career text combines an innovative theory-based approach with practical knowledge developed during the authors’ combined 100 years of providing career services to college students. • Part One (chapters 1-5) focuses on cognitive information processing theory with detailed, practical examples of the application of the theory in typical career situations, including self-knowledge, occupational knowledge, and decision making. • Part Two (chapters 6-10) provides a multidisciplinary overlay of issues that affect career decisions, such as economic trends, the global economy, organizational culture, and family-work issues. • Part Three (chapters 11-15) focuses on concrete steps for executing a strategic career plan and seeking employment, including an examination of familiar topics such as interviewing, resume writing, negotiating, and work adjustment, from a cognitive and multidisciplinary perspective. Revisions to 3rd edition: *New information about occupational classifications *Labor market projections extended to 2016 *More active learning strategies incorporated into instructor's manual and also embedded in the text *Clearer directions for completing assignments provided in appendices, e.g., career field analysis research paper. *Redesigned 350+ PowerPoint slides based text and instructor’s manual contents.

This is the most comprehensive book if its kind and a superb reference for any social worker. Updated to respond to changes in the job market and the profession since the best-selling first edition, this unique handbook addresses in detail the career management and job search needs of social workers, including self-assessment exercises, strategies for researching the job market and networking, details on curriculum vitaes and portfolios; tips on selecting master's and doctoral programmes, and much more.

"Abstract: The handbook seeks to provide a state-of-the-art reference point for the field of career development. It engages in a trans-disciplinary and international dialogue that explores current ideas and debates from a variety of viewpoints including socio-economic, political, educational, and social justice perspectives. Career development is broadly defined to encompass both individuals' experience of their own careers, and the full range of support services for career planning and transitions. The handbook is divided into three sections. The first section explores the economic, educational, and public policy contexts within which careers are enacted. The second section explores the rich conceptual landscape of career theory. The third section addresses the broad spectrum of helping practices to support both individuals and groups including career guidance, career counseling, and career learning interventions. Keywords: Career; career development, career counseling, career guidance, career learning, career theory, public policy, social justice"--

A Guide for the Idealist is a must for young professionals seeking to put their idealism to work. Speaking to urban and regional planners and those in related fields, the book provides tools for the reader to make good choices, practice effectively, and find meaning in planning work. Built around concepts of idealism and realism, the book takes on the gap between the expectations and the constraints of practice. How to make an impact? How to decide when to compromise and when to fight for a core value? The book advises on career "launching" issues: doubt, decision-making, assessing types of work and work settings, and career planning. Then it explains principled adaptability as professional style. Subsequent chapters address early-practice issues: being right, avoiding wrong, navigating managers, organizations and teams, working with mentors, and understanding the career journey. Underpinning these dimensions is a call for planners to reflect on what they are doing as they are doing it. The advice provided is based on the experience of a planning professor who has also practiced planning throughout his career. The book includes personal anecdotes from the author and other planners about how they launched and managed their careers, and discussion/reflection questions for the reader to consider.

Career Development and Counseling: Theory and Practice in a Multicultural World provides a comprehensive overview of career development theories with a unique multicultural framework. Aligned with the latest standards set forth by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP), the text focuses on applications across a variety of settings and populations. Each chapter contains numerous case illustrations and learning activities designed to help readers understand the complexities of multicultural aspects of individual career development. Counseling students in training, in addition to working counseling professionals, will find this book as a useful resource for today’s diverse world. Career Development and Counseling is part of SAGE’s Counseling and Professional Identity Series.