This new title is part of LifeBound's 'Stair-Step to Student Success' series. In addition to being a resource for students and parents in the trade market, many schools districts across the country offer career classes sophomore year of high school. This title will help teachers present planning for college and career in a reader friendly format based on Carol Carter's expertise on college and career success. Life all of LifeBound's titles, this book comes with matching curriculum. This book will help: inspire you to dream, conduct a self-analysis, learn critical thinking skills, manage your resources, match abilities and interests to career fields, understand the global landscape, rebound from setbacks, and prepare for the real world of work. Posting on LifeBound web site www.lifebound.com Author speaking engagements at national conferences Monthly eletter to 500 educators

With input from teens, parents, and numerous experts, Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning knows just how to talk to high school students about the important decisions involving life after graduation. This easy-to-read guide, with updated content, enables busy students to hone in on the right information for them. Whether it's mapping the road from high school to college, figuring out financial aid, determining if joining the military is the right move, preparing for an interview, or developing early career skills, Teens' Guide addresses each option available to young adults with meaningful information. Inside you'll find valuable advice from guidance counselors, instructors, college admission officials, military officers, and-most importantly-other high school students! Also includes, expert tips for interviews, resumes, and cover letters. With new content written by Justin Muchnick, current high school junior and author of Peterson's® The Boarding School Survival Guide, this guide will help you get ready for life after high school.

Peterson's Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning: Your High School Roadmap to College & Career Success is the must-have eBook for middle school and high school students as they prepare for life after graduation. Whether you're heading to a four-year college, a community or two-year college, the military, or the workforce, Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning offers expert advice and tools to help you succeed. Chapters include The Big Jump to High School, The First Steps to a Career, Planning Your Education While in High School, Tackling the Tests (ACT, PSAT/NMSQT, SAT, and TOEFL), The College Search, Applying to College, Financial Aid Dollars and Sense, Other Options After High School, The Military Option, Jump into Work, Survival Skills, and more. Throughout the book, you'll find real-life advice from students, guidance counselors, parents, and college admissions counselors; helpful checklists and worksheets to help keep you organized; essential information to help you decide if the military is right for you; expert financial aid advice and information on scholarships, grants, athletic awards, loans, work-study, and more. Fun graphics along with the informative, easy-to-read chapters make this the perfect guide for the teen on the go.

Handbook for high school students offering advice on college planning and career exploration.

As a college student, you're poised to enter an exciting process of self-discovery. Fear of the unknown might be holding you back. Don't worry! Hired 'Right' will guide you step by step as you move toward your calling in life. This fast-paced book is packed with information, helpful advice, and Q & A sections all tied together by an engaging story. You'll be empowered by the challenges ahead because you'll learn you were more prepared than you ever imagined. This outstanding book helps students hear their calling while providing practical ideas on how to answer the call. A must read for students and parents. Identifies with students and provides a practical, step-by-step process to help answer the questions about what to major in and what career is right for me.

The college admissions process can seem overwhelming. However, it doesn't have to be intimidating if students have a strategic plan. This college readiness workbook will allow high school sophomores to design a strategy for college acceptance specific to what they want their college experience to be. Students will be challenged to take a good look at themselves, and build a college readiness plan for their remaining high school career. This workbook is designed to equip sophomores to successfully matriculate through high school and transition into college-bound students by exposing them to major concepts covering college readiness, college acceptance, and college life.

There is a Way to significantly increase your chances for landing a great job with a well known and respected employer. If that is your goal, this book can help you achieve that goal. The most successful students realize that they must compete for the best jobs. They also realize that there are steps that they must follow along the way, to put themselves in the best position for success. To be more successful, you should: - Figure out where you want to go (A clear direction) - Investigate what it will take to get there - Create a detailed, step-by-step plan of action - Participate in campus, work and community activities - Build a list of significant accomplishments - Demonstrate the most desirable, work related skills - Prepare for and conduct a comprehensive job search Every year, too many good students lose out to better prepared candidates and must settle for lesser jobs with less impressive employers. This regularly happens to students who: - Don't understand the job hunting process - Fail to adequately prepare for the senior year job search - Are unaware of what is important to recruiters and employers - Don't know how to compete effectively for the best jobs Students understand that their cumulative average is built semester by semester. And yet, most students and parents don't recognize that the same thing is true of the job search plan. The accomplishments, successes, achievements and positive results that you will include on your resume will be accumulated as you move through your four-year college experience. Students who wait until their senior year to think about their resume and job search strategy are unlikely to land a great job. Smart student plan for success. They actively strive to put themselves in the best possible position to land a great job. Those who don't will fall by the wayside. Since every student can improve their chances for a better job by following the week-by-week plan contained in this book, only one question remains. How badly d