Career Development:Life and Career Strategies and Technologies - Tapa blanda

For courses in Career Exploration and Job Search. Unique in scope and perspective, this text focuses on the methodologies, processes, and techniques for conducting a job search in today's highly competitive, over-crowded marketplace. It features a dynamic, three-pronged approach that combines the best of traditional and state-of the-art psychological, business, and cyberspace information, tools, and techniques. The strategies outlined in this book prepare students to market their own education, experience, skills, and talents to best advantage.

In today's fast-paced, ever changing economy, knowledge of current technologies and their impact on the job search is more crucial than ever. Not only must job seekers be focused in their search, but they must also be able to adapt new methods of exploration and communication. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, job searchers must be visible in the marketplace in order to locate those jobs that afford them the best opportunities and are best suited to their interests. Then, they must have the most competitive tools to land the desired jobs. In Career Development: Strategies and Technologies for Career and Life Balance, Fourth Edition , Dr. Breidenbach has revised and expanded the job search process to include information that will ultimately help every job seeker achieve success in their career and life pursuits:

• CD-ROM Business Cards
• Interactive Interviewing
• Negotiations
• Enrepreneurship
• Politics
• Money and Taxes
• 401(k) and 403(b) Options
• Investments
• Retirement Planning