Information and strategies that allow medical professionals to explore, shift and thrive in new career paths within today's health care industry.

Describes the Four Stages of career management and clarifies the realities of corporate organizational life and the forces which determine your career. Based upon hundreds of interviews with professionals and managers from America's leading corporations. The book gives helpful guidelines for understanding and managing your career. It identifies the Four Stages of an individual's career and what is expected at each stage. It also gives advice on how to move ahead.

This book makes the case that career development practice is a mental health intervention, and provides skills and strategies to support career development practitioners in their work. It explores how practitioners do more than help people navigate career paths, they change people's lives in ways that improve mental health and overall well-being.

Talent management is high on the agenda for today's organizations, they are starting to take more control of how their high potential employees develop and grow their careers. As companies become more global, leaders around the world have found that they lack the knowledge of who has the potential for what, and developing pools of talent as an approach to help them manage this has come to the fore. Strategic Career Management: Developing your talent looks at how organizations can implement career strategies to support the growth of their talent. This book is full of practical insights into how to go about enhancing your own organization's career strategies. Full of essential advice and practitioner case studies, it explores how career strategies work from an organization perspective taking into account individual needs and the implications from research in this field. Recent research has shown a clear link between the extents to which high flyers experience development in their careers and their intention to stay with their employer, therefore career management is a key factor in retaining talent. With this book you can: . Improve you strategic career management . Improve employee relations . Develop a business case for careers . Design and develop critical processes to support your strategy . Explore best practice examples from other organizations . Evaluate your own progress An indispensable tool for organisations looking to develop and retain their talent

This text integrates theoretical material and provides a practical slant. The many discussions and exercises enable readers to explore their own career issues in order to learn practical approaches to career planning. The authors cover basic career concepts and decision making; social conditions affecting career development such as the global economy and organizational culture; and practical information on implementing a strategic career plan. Many books in this area provide an extensive survey of various theoretical approaches to career planning/development. However, this text constitutes a systematically designed course based on the cognitive information processing model of career problem solving and decision making. This model provides a practical and realistic vehicle to inform students about career planning and management interventions and to accommodate students at different levels of decidedness about their career aspirations.

Career Management for Life provides students and employees with an integrative approach to managing their careers on an ongoing basis to achieve a satisfying balance between their work and their family responsibilities, community involvement, and personal interests. The career management model guides individuals through the different phases of their career from figuring out what their first job should be right to navigating the road to retirement. Expert authors Greenhaus, Callanan, and Godshalk bring their wealth of research experience to the book and demonstrate the individual and organizational sides of career management, allowing an appreciation of both. This material is well balanced by a set of practical tools, including self-assessments, case studies, and recommended interviews. The new edition also includes: An emphasis on attaining work-life balance, a topic that is of growing concern to workers at all stages of their careers. An updated focus on today’s career contexts and stages. Material on technology and social media, now integrated throughout the book, to reflect the growing importance of these tools in career management and development. A chapter on international careers, helping individuals face a globalized world. Greater emphasis on alternative career paths, reflecting the newest trends and helping individuals understand all the different career options available to them. This rich and engaging book will help individuals understand themselves better, which in turn allows them to understand what they really want out of their career. Those taking (or offering) classes in career management or career development will come to rely on this book for years to follow.