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Anderson, Nancy – 1995
This book seeks to help people connect their emotions with their daily tasks and interactions. It attempts this connection by clarifying for the reader his or her passions. Each chapter unfolds as a "Passion Secret." There are ten passion secrets: (1) The first step to power is clarity; (2) Powerful people do not want to be like anyone…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Careers
Kummerow, Jean M., Ed. – 1991
This book contains seven articles intended to help counselors guide people in career and life planning. Both new directions in career planning and new directions in the workplace are discussed. The following articles are included: "Career and Life Planning: A Personal Gyroscope in Times of Change" (Judith A. Waterman); "Career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning
Huff, Sheila M.
Some issues in connection with competency-based education (CBE) and the world of work discussed by the author include the relevance of CBE programs to work, the changing attitudes of students and young workers toward work, "credentialism" or the continual upgrading of educational requirements for employment, underemployment and CBE, and others.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Development, Competency Based Education, Credentials
Herr, Edwin L. – 1995
Employment-bound youth have largely been ignored in the literature on careers and on counseling and guidance. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides recommendations and specific suggestions for actions that counselors, administrators, and policy makers can adopt to respond to the challenge of providing for employment-bound youth. Chapter…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Counselors
Ryan, Dan, Ed.; McCarthy, Maureen, Ed. – 1994
Recent passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has rekindled debates on the responsibilities of postsecondary institutions to serve students with disabilities. This book provides a comprehensive guide to an institutional response to the ADA. It gives practical advice for responding to students and professionals with disabilities, and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Career Development, Disabilities
Dehner, Mary – 1994
This book is designed to help recent college graduates and persons who are between jobs to find and keep a secure job. It helps readers to analyze themselves and their potential for getting a job. It includes information on the following: self-analysis and defining abilities, getting started with a plan and job search, what is personally…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Lock, Robert D. – 1996
This career planning guide is the second in a series on career decision making and the job search. Intended for use by students in career planning courses or by individuals with the help of a counselor, this book focuses on finding and getting the right job once the career planning process is complete. Chapter 1 offers a brief survey of theories…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
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Tennessee Univ., Knoxville. Dept. of Technological and Adult Education. – 1990
Intended primarily for principals and guidance counselors, this monograph contains 15 articles written by practitioners associated with, and staff of, the Comprehenisve Career Development Project for Secondary Schools in Tennessee. The following articles are included: "Changes: From Crisis Counseling to a Comprehensive Career Development…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Comprehensive Guidance
Stevens, Paul – 1993
This book explores the career transition journey that a typical person undertakes when resolving difficulties with his or her worklife. It is written from the viewpoint of a counselor who has counseled more than 1,700 persons individually and more than 2,000 people in workshops, incorporating their experiences. The book is organized in three…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Change, Career Development, Career Guidance
Conger, Jay A. – 1989
A systematic understanding of how various behavioral components (vision, articulation skills, empowerment, unconventionality, and risk-taking) work together to set apart certain individuals as charismatic leaders is presented. Using illustrations from the careers of charismatic leaders, including Steve Jobs, Lee Iacocca, Mary Kay, John DeLorean,…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Business Administration, Career Development, Change Strategies
Darcy, Robert L.; Powell, Phillip E. – 1973
Young people can do a better job of preparing for the future if they are given an opportunity to learn more about the economy, its changing technology and the increasing importance of human resources. Also relevant to career development are questions of values and institutional change. Reflecting these varied concerns, the book is organized into…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Consumer Education
Aubrey, Robert; Cohen, Paul M. – 1995
This book discusses wisdom as an organizational strategy for developing human potential in learning organizations. It explores learning at four levels: (1) where the learning revolution is going; (2) why wisdom is a paradigm for the new economy; (3) what organizations are doing to enhance learning; and (4) how to assess one's own learning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adults, Andragogy
Pickman, Alan J. – 1994
This book, which can be of value both to professionals in the field and to persons receiving the services, presents an overview of the profession of outplacement counseling. It contains a wide variety of information, including both counseling theory and practical suggestions. The book also contains many brief case histories of actual outplacement…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
Leong, Frederick T. L., Ed. – 1995
This book is designed as a resource for graduate students learning about counseling or counselors and psychologists who provide career counseling to racial and ethnic minorities or who do research with minority groups. The book is divided into sections on "Theory and Research,""Assessment and Intervention," and "Future…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Behavior Patterns, Blacks
Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs; Whicker, Marcia Lynn – 1997
This guide offers practical advice on successfully finding an academic job. The first chapter outlines factors that affect the academic job search, including demographic trends, the general state of the economy and prevailing political climate, the need for cultural diversity on academic faculties, conditions within specific academic disciplines,…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
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