Helps you build a life in which you are living your greatest passions every day, a life of unbelievable richness and meaning. This work explores the basic concepts of life planning, the changing world of careers, and the process of exploring that world. It helps the reader clarify personal values and set both general life goals and career goals.

This book introduces a career planning process that will help individuals to deal with the complexities of the turbulent, uncertain and rapidly changing work environment of today. It offers a flexible alternative to traditional career-management approaches, showing how one can continuously reinvent one's work identity and career in a boundaryless, deconstructed workplace.

Uses the National Career Development Association's Career Counseling Competencies, the National Career Development Guidelines for professional school counselors, and CACREP Standards as a framework for covering the knowledge areas and skills required for effective career development interventions in a diverse society.

Focuses on how to prepare for work and life through career planning, money management, and independent living techniques.

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