This is not the typical career planning book! Instead of taking you through rote assignments and trying to match you up with “a job,” Career Planning for the Twenty-First Century helps you build a life in which you are living your greatest passions every day, a life of unbelievable richness and meaning. It pushes you to reach deep within yourself for a map to your own unique life journey and then explore the work world in search of places and situations where you can thrive.

Special Features

• Explores the basic concepts of life planning, the changing world of careers, and the process of exploring that world
• Helps the reader clarify personal values and set both general life goals and specific career goals
• Looks at the influence of gender on career development and the challenges of living and working in a diverse and multicultural world
• Gives practical guidance on building a healthy and resilient lifestyle in which one can confront and overcome obstacles
• Covers the nuts and bolts of writing resumés, preparing for interviews, and searching for opportunities
• Provides exercises and inventories that help the reader choose directions for exploration, goal-setting and goal attainment

Contents

1. Getting a Life: Empowerment Through Planning
2. The World of Work: New Paradigms Mean New Challenges
3. Exploring Possibilities, Probabilities, and Choices
4. Planning Across the Life Span
5. The Gendered Context of Our Career Choices
6. Understanding Cultural Diversity: Implications for the Workforce
7. What in My Life Is Worth Striving For?
8. Goal-Setting
9. Reality-Testing Goals, Generating Commitments, and Mobilizing Resources
10. Taking Care of You So You Can Take Care of Business
11. Confronting Obstacles
12. Making It All Happen

228 pages
2001/paperback/ISBN 0-89108-271-9
$34.95