Download or read book Creating Careers with Confidence written by Edward Anthony Colozzi and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Careers with Confidence inspires careers and empowers lives as it reflects on life story themes and uses the best of career development theory and practice. Its main focus is helping students discover careers that provide meaning and purpose in addition to income, balance, and fulfillment across various life roles. This self-paced workbook covers essential career management topics such as self-awareness, world-of-work information, person-job matching, networking, decision-making, resume writing, job interviews, and an activity-packed appendix that includes time and stress management strategies. Plus a portfolio summary facilitates academic advising that is useful for informed course selection. The book s tone is practical and engaging and its points are amplified by the various inspirational quotes throughout."
Download or read book Latina Teachers written by Glenda M. Flores and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association's Latina/o Sociology Section How Latina teachers are making careers and helping students stay in touch with their roots. Latina women make up the fastest growing non-white group entering the teaching profession at a time when it is estimated that 20% of all students nationwide now identify as Latina/o. Through ethnographic and participant observation in two underperforming majority-minority schools in Los Angeles, as well as interviews with teachers, parents and staff, Latina Teachers examines the complexities stemming from a growing workforce of Latina teachers. The teachers profiled use Latino cultural resources and serve as agents of ethnic mobility. They actively teach their students how to navigate American race and class structures while retaining their cultural roots, necessary tactics in an American education system that has not fully caught up with the nation’s demographic changes. Flores also explores the challenges faced by Latina teachers, including language barriers and cultural acclimation, and professional inequalities that continue to affect women of color at work. An unprecedented look at an understudied population, Latina Teachers presents an important picture of the women who are increasingly shaping the way America’s children are educated.
Download or read book Career Recovery written by Spencer Niles and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Recovery: Creating Hopeful Careers in Difficult Times provides readers with powerful strategies they can use to create hope and manage their careers throughout their lifetimes. The book introduces readers to the hope-action theory, an empowering approach that highlights the connection between hope, academic engagement, student retention, job search success, career goal clarity, and cultivating a meaningful career path. In Section I, the text introduces the essentials of hope-action theory. The chapters illuminate the challenges of effective career self-management in a post-pandemic world and the importance of hope in career planning. Section II examines the crucial process of engaging in self-reflection to develop self-clarity. Readers uncover their unique passions, skills, personal styles, and values. Section III highlights the need for support in career and educational planning. It teaches readers how to move from self-exploration to seeking support and fostering future opportunities. The final section focuses on implementing key decisions and transforming possibilities into realities. Career Recovery is an energizing resource that helps readers discover and channel hope to support the development and management of their chosen career paths.
Download or read book Careers written by Ann M. Brewer and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering career development in the current and future work landscape, this book explores a leading-edge framework for careers, drawing on design thinking to apply career planning to a wide range of individual contexts.
Download or read book Professing to Learn written by Anna Neumann and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research, teaching, service, and public outreach—all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning—disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations? Professing to Learn explores university professors’ scholarly growth and learning in the years immediately following the award of tenure, a crucial period that has a lasting impact on the academic career. Some launch from this point to multiple accomplishments and accolades, while others falter, their academic pursuits stalled. What contributes to these different outcomes? Drawing on interviews with seventy-eight professors in diverse disciplines and fields at five major American research universities, Anna Neumann describes how tenured faculty shape and disseminate their own disciplinary knowledge while attending committee meetings, grading exams, holding office hours, administering programs and departments, and negotiating with colleagues. By exploring the intellectual activities pursued by these faculty and their ongoing efforts to develop and define their academic interests, Professing to Learn directs the attention of higher education professionals and policy makers to the core aim of higher education: the creation of academic knowledge through research, teaching, and service.
Download or read book Create Your Art Career written by Rhonda Schaller and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success. This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.
Download or read book Creating Good Jobs written by Paul Osterman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts discuss improving job quality in low-wage industries including retail, residential construction, hospitals and long-term healthcare, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking. Americans work harder and longer than our counterparts in other industrialized nations. Yet prosperity remains elusive to many. Workers in such low-wage industries as retail, restaurants, and home construction live from paycheck to paycheck, juggling multiple jobs with variable schedules, few benefits, and limited prospects for advancement. These bad outcomes are produced by a range of industry-specific factors, including intense competition, outsourcing and subcontracting, failure to enforce employment standards, overt discrimination, outmoded production and management systems, and inadequate worker voice. In this volume, experts look for ways to improve job quality in the low-wage sector. They offer in-depth examinations of specific industries—long-term healthcare, hospitals and outpatient care, retail, residential construction, restaurants, manufacturing, and long-haul trucking—that together account for more than half of all low-wage jobs. The book's sector view allows the contributors to address industry-specific variations that shape operational choices about work. Drawing on deep industry knowledge, they consider important distinctions within and between these industries; the financial, institutional, and structural incentives that shape the choices employers make; and what it would take to make more jobs better jobs. Contributors Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt, Dale Belman, Julie Brockman, Françoise Carré, Susan Helper, Matt Hinkel, Tashlin Lakhani, JaeEun Lee, Raphael Martins, Russell Ormiston, Paul Osterman, Can Ouyang, Chris Tilly, Steve Viscelli
Download or read book Designing Your Life written by Bill Burnett and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
Download or read book Creating the Work You Love written by Rick Jarow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique and provocative look at work, career counselor Rick Jarow argues for a return to the concept of vocation--finding a "calling" instead of a job. Traditional career guides inventory the individual skills, talents, and abilities that correlate to specific existing jobs. Creating the Work You Love presents a unique alternative approach, using self-reflective exercises based on the seven chakras, to help you determine the elements you need to create a life filled with meaning and purpose. Jarow believes that it is possible to live and act from the most authentic part of oursleves, and to express our strongest values, energies, and talents through our work in the world. Concentrating on the attributes associated with each of the body's energy centers, or chakras, Dr. Jarow helps us form a bridge between our personal priorities and the external activities of the work world. Once this bridge is established, strategies are developed to find a career that nourishes all aspects of our lives.
Download or read book A Field Guide for Career Practitioners written by Jim Peacock and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creating a Pathway to Your Dream Career written by Tom Kucharvy and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you want your life to be like when you’re 25? 35? 55? Do you want a job that will feed you and your family or do you want a career that will be an integral part of your life—a career that will feed your passions, enable the lifestyle you choose, and be a continual source of engagement and pride? But do you really have the luxury of even considering your dream job in an era in which more than 40 percent of college graduates can’t even get jobs that require college degrees, much less jobs in their field? Not only should you think about your dream job—you owe it to yourself to do so. You just need a plan. This book will help you develop that plan by first examining how the careers of the future will differ from those of the past, where these jobs and careers will and won’t be, and the range of skills (many of which are not taught in schools) they will require. With this context, it then lays out a three-stage, 20-step plan that will help you: • Objectively assess and develop your skills and align them with your passions • Assess the career opportunities that will best utilize these skills in pursuit of your passion • Expand your career options and hedge your bets by identifying complementary “safety careers” • Evaluate your post-high school education options and create an education plan that is best suited to you and your career choice • Prioritize the factors you should consider in targeting your critical first career-track job and use that job to expand your long-term career options
Download or read book Encountering Experiencing and Shaping Careers written by Ann M. Brewer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how people encounter, experience and shape their careers. Both the concept and the reality of a career is changing as organisations respond to globalisation and market forces. This impact is reflected in the internal labour market and hence career journeys of individuals. How people think about their career and career choices is more diverse than ever before due not only to environmental transformations but also to variations in the workforce, consisting now of five generations. With each new generation, there is little argument that contemplating career choices, seeking and promoting work opportunities as well as hiring relationships are now markedly different and less certain than previously. People have now and increasingly a greater choice over when, where, how to work and for how long. This book will provide learning for those people early in their careers as well as those in mid to later career, looking to develop or enrich their careers in some way. Understanding how work functions in people’s lives; the personal and family costs incurred in maintaining and exiting a career, and how and why remaining or leaving a career is successful or not, is highly relevant. The need for career support, derived from personal, professional and organisational connections plays an important role in career choice, career transition, and career opportunities. Creativity and other 21st century skills, the vital dimensions of career development, is also discussed in this book.
Download or read book The Opt Out Revolt written by Lisa A. Mainiero and published by Davies-Black Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to be a New Careerist--blazing trails and redesigning the corporate landscape
Download or read book Purpose Impact written by Anita Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at senior professionals who are seeking new challenges, this book is the first to provide clear guidance on how to rethink and relaunch careers that align with wider purpose and societal impact.
Download or read book Careers in Japan written by Mami Taniguchi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Ten years ago we were publishing much about the economic successes in Japan, their management and HR practices. During the recent economic downturn in Japan we have heard much less. This is a real opportunity to learn what Japanese organizations have been doing to respond to the problems. Some of the papers are real case studies and are based in the automotive, hotel and retail sectors. The authors are based at respected universities in Japan.
Download or read book Creating and Sustaining Small Learning Communities written by Grace Sammon and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains: 33 planning templates -- data collection and assessment tools -- frequently asked questions.
Download or read book The Science of Happiness at Work Creating a Positive and Productive Workplace Culture written by Shu Chen Hou and published by Shu chen Hou. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the Secrets to a Happier, More Productive Workplace! Are you tired of the same old workplace routine? Feeling uninspired, unmotivated, and stuck in a cycle of stress and burnout? It's time to break free from the mundane and discover the transformative power of happiness at work! Introducing "The Science of Happiness at Work: Creating a Positive and Productive Workplace Culture." This groundbreaking book takes you on a journey to uncover the hidden secrets behind fostering a positive and thriving work environment. Why Happiness Matters: Happiness isn't just a feel-good emotion; it's a game-changer for productivity and job satisfaction. Studies show that happy employees are more engaged, creative, and resilient. They go above and beyond, leading to increased productivity and overall success for your organization. Unleash the Power of Positive Psychology: Discover the science-backed principles of positive psychology that will revolutionize your workplace. Learn how to tap into employee strengths, promote positive emotions, and create a culture of meaning and purpose. Build a Positive Workplace Culture: Are you ready to transform your workplace into a hub of positivity and collaboration? Learn how to nurture an inclusive culture that fosters trust, open communication, and a sense of belonging. Watch as productivity soars and employee morale reaches new heights! Overcome Barriers to Happiness: Every workplace faces challenges, but "The Science of Happiness at Work" equips you with the tools to conquer them. Say goodbye to stress, burnout, and poor communication. Say hello to a workplace that thrives on support, recognition, and well-being. Embrace the Neuroscience of Happiness: Explore the fascinating neurobiology of happiness and its profound impact on decision-making, stress management, and resilience. Unravel the secrets of a brain that is wired for success and satisfaction. Empower Your Leaders: Strong leadership is the cornerstone of a happy and productive workplace. Discover how leaders can champion happiness initiatives, lead by example, and inspire their teams to greatness. Implement Happiness Strategies: With a step-by-step roadmap, this book guides you through the implementation of happiness initiatives that will revolutionize your organization. Empower your employees through autonomy, create a culture of recognition, and promote work-life balance like never before. Sustain a Culture of Happiness: Sustainable happiness is not a fleeting trend; it's a way of life. Learn how to keep the momentum going, measure progress, and continuously improve your workplace culture for the long haul. Are you ready to embark on a journey that will change your workplace forever? "The Science of Happiness at Work" is your ticket to a brighter, more fulfilling future. Join the ranks of renowned organizations like Google, Zappos, and Patagonia, who have harnessed the power of happiness to achieve unparalleled success. It's time to invest in your most valuable asset – your employees – and reap the rewards of a thriving, positive, and productive workplace culture. Get your copy of "The Science of Happiness at Work" today and embark on a path to workplace transformation. Unlock the secrets to a happier, more productive workforce, and watch your organization soar to new heights of success.
