Building Your Career: A Guide to Your Future

For undergraduate courses in Career Development or Career Planning. Designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors required to make effective educational and career decisions, this practical, self-help guide uses a systematic, hands-on approach that involves students in their own career search through a wide variety of exercises and innovative worksheets that pull together personal, family/social, and career traits, preferences and conditions. Throughout, students use their self-information to explore relevant occupational clusters that are presented in terms of both a current and future-oriented workplace. It moves them systematically through a decision-making cycle of Awareness, Exploration, Choice, and Commitment. Each chapter involves students in acquiring knowledge and learning skills, while examining their attitudes, values, and behaviors.