Career errors : straight talk about the steps and missteps of career development / Frank Burtnett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burtnett, Frank, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Vocational guidance.

Teaching.

Teachers--In-service training.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Summary:

"Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development examines the career development encounters that people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a comprehensive examination of the career development process and why these eight phases must be understood in order for career satisfaction and success to be achieved. This analysis is followed by a meticulous treatment of 27 things active members of the workforce "do wrong" or "don't do" in pursuit of their career ambitions. Conducting an effective job search, dealing with job loss or termination, and how best to prosper in the workplace, are among the subjects included. Throughout the book, the author sets life-work balance as a paramount goal and outlines strategies about how this illusive objective can be achieved. Career Errors is the next best thing to having a professional career counselor or recruiter in the room. While written for the individual experiencing the various life and work activities, this book is also of significant value to counselors, search and staffing professionals, educators, and others playing important roles in these transitions." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Entering, reentering, and moving about the world of work

Clueless about how the career development process works

Sub par decision-making leading to catastrophic consequences

A good search spoiled

Unknown occupations are off the career radar

Missed or failed education, training, and retraining opportunities

Inability to find or use good information

Over-aspiring and under-aspiring with troubled results

Ignorance of human resources and life experiences as career teachers

The perils of poor time and calendar organization

Failure to use professional counselors

Finding, acquiring, and moving into the first or any job

Inability to adapt to change

Inadequate job search skills

A killer resume and you are the deceased

The interview that implodes

Poor writing resulting a failure to communicate

Mismanagement of transitions

You didn't get the job and don't know why

To accept or not accept, the job offer that is

Coping with new job anxieties and stresses

Holding out for the "dream job"

Insufficient encounters with career helpers

Achieving career satisfaction and dealing with the occasional crisis

Blundered growth, mobility, and maintenance opportunities

Inability to achieve life-work balance

Faulty treatment of termination, job loss, and other career dilemmas

Ignoring the knowledge explosion

Winding down exiting career

Poor posturing for career end and retirement

Mishandling change late in career

Voices that matter

Learning from the experts

Conclusion

Appendix

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798765170953

1-4758-4843-9