Career Management is designed to help students understand themselves and their careers, to develop the skills necessary to manage their careers effectively, and to act as a mentor or human resource manager helping other workers develop their own careers. Significant decisions regarding job search, career change, and a job's affect on the family and/or spouse's career are just some of the major career challenges addressed by the authors.

Career Management

Business & Money

Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.

Callanan, Gerard A.

Job Hunting & Careers

Dryden Press

Career Management for Life

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.

Godshalk, Veronica M.

Routledge

Career Management, Fourth Edition blends theory, practical recommendations, and case studies to help students develop the necessary skills to manage their own careers or to act as a human resource manager assisting others as they develop their careers. Offering a useful combination of both individual and organizational actions relevant in career management, the authors introduce students to basic concepts underlying theory and then illustrate their practical applications, either with regard to an individual′s career or within firms. Now in a two–color design, the Fourth Edition retains the authors′ well-established career management model, providing a helpful framework for establishing career goals and for making appropriate career choices. This thoroughly revised edition provides new ways of conceptualizing careers along with an understanding of modern trends in the business world and the broader environment that influence career decision making. Key Features • *NEW* Chapter-ending cases: Each chapter now ends with a topical "real-life" case that examines either individual or organizational career management. These scenarios highlight core chapter material and are accompanied by critical thinking questions, making them useful for guiding classroom discussion. • Practical pedagogy reinforces the theories and research presented: Updated and streamlined learning exercises allow individuals to practice specific competencies involving career exploration, goal setting, strategy development, and the identification of a preferred work environment. Applied examples throughout the text illustrate key ideas, bringing them to life. • Significant new material brings the text up to date: This edition addresses international careers, social capital, mentoring, and entrepreneurship; updated information on different forms of self-assessment (for learning about one′s values, interests, talents, personality, and lifestyle preferences); and a new chapter on Career Contexts and Stages.

Sage Publications, Inc.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.\nThis insightful Advanced Introduction provides a road map for building and maintaining a sustainable career. Delving into the meaning of a ‘sustainable career’, the book examines the factors that threaten a career’s sustainability, such as economic turbulence, changes in organizational practices, and advances in technology, offering actions that can be taken to overcome these threats and strengthen the sustainability of careers.\nKey Features:\nIdentifies the role of gender in building a sustainable career 
Introduces a new model of career sustainability, emphasizing the relevance of employees’ home life in building a sustainable career 
Demonstrates how building a sustainable career is the shared responsibility of employees and their families, employers, and society 
Establishes that some groups in society are substantially more vulnerable than others and require additional or different resources to build and maintain a sustainable career\nThis Advanced Introduction will be a valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of sustainable careers, human resource management, and organizational behavior. It will also be useful for practitioners and policy makers in these fields as well as individuals who want to build a more sustainable career.

Advanced Introduction to Sustainable Careers (Elgar Advanced Introductions series)

Edward Elgar Publishing

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Career Management

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Career Management

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