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Preface xii
Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: A Letter to You 1
The Process 2 Stages and Steps 3 The Internet: A Convenient, Powerful, and Useful Tool 6 Summary 7
The Career Search Guide 7 Self-Assessment 9
Chapter 1
NEEDS, WANTS, AND VALUES: Spotlighting YOU 10
Success Is Everybody's Dream 11
Success Defined 11
Clarifying Needs, Wants, and Values Leads to Successful Goals 15
Basic Needs Relate to Our Survival 15
Needs Relate to Wants 17
Needs and Wants Relate to Feelings and Shoulds 18
Needs and Wants Relate to Values 19
Values Act As Motivators for Decisions 20
Personal Growth 21
Self-Actualization 22
Beyond Needs and Wants 25
The Work Ethic: A Personal Philosophic View 26
Just a Job, or a Career? 27
Summary 29
Self-Assessment Exercises 29
Group Discussion Questions 36
Chapter 2
PERSONALITY AND PERFORMANCE: Pieces of the Puzzle 38
Areas of Interest: The Personality Mosaic 39
Personality Mosaic 40
Scoring Your Answers 42
Interpreting the Personality Mosaic 44
The Personality Hexagon 47
Dealing with Data, People, and Things 52
Data 53
People 53 Things 53
Activity Analysis 54
Skills 54
The Skills Trio 56
Getting an Edge on the Job Hunt Process 57
A Quick Look at Your Personal Style and Careers 59
Summary 61
Self-Assessment Exercises 62
Group Discussion Questions 70
Chapter 3
THE CAREER CONNECTION: Finding Your Job Satisfiers 71
Making the Career Connection 72 Occupational Information 101 72
Career Focus: Job Chart Inventory 76
Realistic 77
Investigative & Artistic 79
Social & Enterprising 81
Conventional 82
Some Combinations and Other Considerations 83
Exploring Further-Researching Your Options Using the O*NET Database,
GOE, and OOH 84
Summary 87
Self-Assessment Exercises 88
Group Discussion Questions 92
Chapter 4
WORK: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities 93
Charting the Future: A Global Philosophic View of Work 94
The Time of No Time 94 Work Past and Present 95 The Global Panorama 95
Social Perspectives: Challenges and Options 99
Economics Oversimplified 99
State of the Ark People: Worldwide 100
State of the Ark People: United States 100
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Consumer Society Goes Global 102
Energy Fires Up the Industrial/Technical World 103
Military Security 103
Economy Meets the Environment 104
Our Basic Needs 105
Options Banish Gloom and Doom 107
Sustainable Systems Defined 109
How Do They Work? 109
Hope on the Economic Horizon: Business As Unusual 117
Microlending: An Idea Whose Time Has Come 117
The Real Economy 118
The Ethical Perspective: Time for a Change 119
Being Good: Ethics for a New Age 120
Global Consciousness: Thinking the Unthinkable,
Doing the Undoable 120
People Power 121
Jobs Lost and Gained 123
Job Market Outlook and Opportunities: Realities and Balance 124
Personality Types in the Job Market 126
Realistic Type 126
Investigative Type 126
Artistic Type 126
Social Type 127
Enterprising Type 127 Conventional Type 128
Social-Investigative-Artistic (SIAs) and Other Combinations:
The Hard Cases 128
Back to the Future: Job Market Outlook and Opportunities 129
New Paradigms 132
Summary 133
Self-Assessment Exercises 133
Group Discussion Questions 135
Chapter 5
WORKPLACES/WORKSTYLES: Companies That Work 137
Seven Categories of Workplaces 138
Business 138 Industry 139
Education 139
Communication/Entertainment 139
Health 140
Government 140
Military 141
Career Ladders Large and Small 141 Wanted: Rewards on All Levels 145
Don't Overlook Benefits 146
Rewards of a Different Sort: The Emotional Contract 148
Workplace Values: Ethics 101 150
Autonomy Dimensions: Who's Boss? 152
Workplace Diversity 154
Gender in the Workplace 155 Gender Bender: Women 155
Gender Bender: Men 157
Family, Career, or Both? Minding the Family 158
Child/Elder Care 160
Teenagers and Young Adults 160
The Aging Worker in the Workplace 161
Minorities/Immigrants/Refugees: The "Other" 162
The Disabled and Their Abilities 163
Stressed for Success 164
Summary 167
Self-Assessment Exercises 167
Group Discussion Questions 170
Chapter 6
TIMESTYLES/WORKSTYLES: Alternatives That Work 172
Full-Time Alternatives 173
The Computer Commute 175
Work in the In-Between 176
Work of One's Own-the Entrepreneur 178
Third-Wave Prosumers 187
New Views 188
Leisure Styles 188
Community 189
The Ins and Outs of Workplaces: Doing the Research 191
Information Interviewing 193
Work Experience 197
Summary 198
Self-Assessment Exercises 199
Group Discussion Questions 206
Chapter 7
THE JOB HUNT: Tools for Breaking and Entering 207
Develop Job Search Objectives, Strategies, and Tactics 208
Hiring Managers 212
Networking 213
Job Recruiters and Agencies 217
Job Ads 219
The Resume 220
The Chronological Resume 224
Functional and Hybrid Resumes 227
Cover Letters 234
Letters of Reference 240
The Application Form 243
The Interview 244
Getting Prepared 246
Interview Behavior 249 Practice Questions 250
Follow-Up 255
Job Offers: Too Many or Too Few? 256
Electronic Communications, Scanners, and the Internet 262
Summary 268
Self-Assessment Exercises 271
Group Discussion Questions 278
Chapter 8
DECISIONS, DECISIONS: What's Your Next Move? 279
Attitudes 281
Stay Calm 281
Be Persistent 281
Keep Your Perspective 281
Be Confident 282
Four Options 282
Back to School 282
Various Routes to Educational Credit/Training 289
High School Credit 289
College Search 289
College Credit: Alternatives 289
Back to the Job Market 291
Same Job/New Approach 291
Deciding Not to Decide 292
Decision Making: A Four-Phase Process 292
Gather Information 292
Weigh and Brainstorm Alternatives and Outcomes 293
Check Values 297
Design Strategies 298
Job Hunting... Again? Again! 299
The Great Gap 301
Change Is Here to Stay 302
Success: New Directions 303
Summary 304
Self-Assessment Exercises 305
Group Discussion Questions 312
Chapter 9
WORK AFFECTS THE SOUL: The Final Analysis 313
Chapter 1 Needs, Wants, and Values: Spotlighting YOU 314
Chapters 2 and 3 Personality and Job Satisfiers 316
Chapter 4 Work: Challenges, Options, and Opportunities 318
Chapters 5 and 6 Workplaces/Workstyles/Timestyles 319
Chapter 7 The Job Hunt: Tools for Breaking and Entering 322
Chapter 8 Decisions, Decisions: What's Your Next Move? 323
Notes 325
Index 335
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Vocational guidance, Job hunting