Hired! The Job Hunting and Career Planning Guide

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UNIT 1. DISCOVERING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF

 1. Know Yourself: A Self-Awareness Journey

 2. Charting the Future: Goal Setting and Decision Making for Life

 3. Researching Careers: The Changing Nature of Work

 4. Exploring Through Experience: Learning Outside the Classroom

   

UNIT 2. CREATING OPPORTUNITIES

 5. Developing Your Portfolio: Self-Managed Career Planning

 6. Connecting to Employers: Job Search Correspondence and Job Applications

 7. Marketing Tools: Your Resume and References

 

UNIT 3. SELLING YOUR TALENTS

 8. Networking and Job Sourcing: Grow Your Possibilities

 9. Interviewing: Achieve Job Search Results

 

UNIT 4. BALANCING YOUR CAREER AND PERSONAL LIFE

10. Navigating: Your Professional Direction

11. Cultivating Meaningful Connections: Personal Goals, Work-Life Balance, and Relationships

12. Financing Your Life: Planning and Implementing a Financial Plan

 

Self-assessment section.

~Provides students the opportunity to actively explore their interests, values, skills, and personality preferences.

Resume and Interview Sections.

~Enables students to be prepared for the steps in the job search process and presents them with the opportunity to respond in writing to issues presented directly in the textbook.  

Student Reaction and Think Pieces.

~Provides students the opportunity to consider why certain information is being gathered in the portfolio and how they can best use it as well as giving them the opportunity to respond in writing to issues in the text.

Networking section.

~Assists students in understanding the role of networking and increasing their networking skills.

Highlighted Information.

~Offers students additional relevant information and provides variety within the textbook (statistics, jokes, stories, etc.).

Chapter learning objectives.

~Gives students and instructors a roadmap of what can be expected in terms of student learning in each chapter.

Recommendations on how to dress and prepare for an interview.

~Assists students by providing suggestions on what to wear for the job interview.

Graphics and fonts.

~Offers students engaging and interactive features and improved visual appeal.

Life/career planning; a holistic approach to career development.

~Helps students to realize that there is more to life than paid work.

Comprehensive instructor’s manual.

~Provides instructors with chapter-by-chapter suggestions for facilitating course concepts. Suggests in-class activities, discussion topics, and lecture topics. Overhead transparencies are provided.

Experienced author team—Mike Henle, and Mike Stebleton are respected and distinguished in their field.

~Gives students and instructors a textbook that is authored by a two professionals with extensive experience in the areas of career and student development including teaching life-career planning courses.

 

NEW!  Each chapter now includes: 

1)      A profile of a traditional and non-traditional student–Gives students a profile of someone to whom they can relate.

2)      A “Do You Measure Up? or “Are You Prepared?” goal-setting activity–These activities emphasize specific self-assessment and goal-setting activities that the student completes for implementation in their plan. 

3)      A “What Employers Say” workplace information–The workplace information helps students develop greater understanding of the workplace and keys to success in their career plan, job search or workplace activities.

 

NEW!  The theme of goal setting is woven throughout the book–Shows students how to develop individualized plans with consistent goal-setting themes that link the chapters together and result in an overall career plan.

 

NEW!  Networking activities and types are expanded in Chapter 8 and throughout–Helps students gain a stronger understanding of networking for all phases of their career planning including exploration, goal-setting, experiential activities, job search and career development.

 

NEW!  Goal-setting binder contains tear-out critical assignments for placement–Enables students to focus their goal-setting and action plans and organize supplement portfolio items.

 

NEW!  Chapter 12 features a practical focus on financial planning–Concentrates on developing a more practical and individualized plan for every need and financial situation based on their particular stage of life.

  

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Henle/Stebleton HIRED!  The Job-Hunting/Career-Planning Guide, 4e

 

As a student taking a career development course, or a career seeker actively looking for placement…

This goal-oriented text shows you that career choice is not a single event but a life-long process.  You are in charge of your career and your success.  HIRED! helps you discover your own career philosophy.  This book will walk you through discovering your authentic self, creating opportunities, selling your talents, and balancing your career and personal life.  Students and career seekers alike are taught how to develop an ongoing, flexible portfolio of information about themselves and their work to prepare them for satisfying and productive lives in an ever-changing world.

 

The workbook approach and step-by-step exercises will keep you focused on the critical issues–self-developed goals, action plans, and execution of those plans.  At the same time, various goal-setting techniques will help convey the importance of planning to overcome career obstacles–and increase the likelihood of career success.

HIRED!  The Job-Hunting/Career-Planning Guide, 4e

Michael Stebleton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Michael Henle, The College of William and Mary

 

Career choice is not a single event—it’s a life-long process! 

 

For a student taking a career development course, or a career seeker actively looking for placement the fourth edition of Hired! remains a practical, life-career planning guide designed to reach a variety of audiences.  However, unlike other textbooks, Hired! focuses on helping students develop an ongoing, flexible portfolio about themselves and their work–to prepare them for satisfying and productive lives in our ever-changing world. The writing activities encourage students to take a proactive role in creating their own career philosophy and their futures.  The workbook approach and step-by-step exercises keep students focused on the critical issues–self-developed goals and action plans–and the execution of those plans.  At the same time, various goal-setting and planning techniques will help job seekers overcome career obstacles and increase the likelihood of career success. 

 

New to this edition

 

·         The theme of goal setting is woven throughout the book.

·         The role of online social networking in the career planning, networking, and job search process is addressed.

·         The financial planning chapter (ch. 12) has been expanded and focuses on practical issues faced by traditional and nontraditional students.

 

Each chapter now includes: 

 

1)      A profile of a traditional and non-traditional student, providing students a profile of someone to whom they can relate.

2)      A “Do You Measure Up? or “Are You Prepared?” goal-setting activity.  These features emphasize specific self-assessment and goal-setting activities that the student completes for implementation in their plan. 

3)      A “What Employers Want” workplace information featyre.  The workplace information helps students develop greater understanding of the workplace and keys to success in their career plan, job search or workplace activities.

 

 

Start strong. Finish stronger.

 

www.MyStudentSuccessLab.com

 

Mike Henle is Associate Director of MBA Career Services at The College of William and Mary’s Mason School of Business.  Previous to this role he held various staff and faculty positions at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management including Director of the Undergraduate Business Career Center.  Additionally, he served in a faculty position at St. Mary’s University Minnesota and adjunct faculty positions in several community colleges.  Possessing an MBA in finance, an MA in educational psychology, and a BA in psychology, Mike has over 20 years of experience in the areas of leadership, professional development and corporate finance.  He has made presentations at numerous national and regional conferences.

 

Mike Stebleton, Ph.D., is a faculty member in the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.  He recently held adjunct faculty positions at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota and Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, MN.  Additionally, Stebleton worked as a counseling faculty member at a community college for over three years.  His research interests include:  narrative approaches to career development, the role of media on career-decision making, and multicultural influences impacting career.  Mike is one of the authors of a textbook titled: Hired:  The Job Hunting/Career-Planning Guide, 3 ed., published by Prentice-Hall (2006).  He has presented at numerous state and national career development conferences.   

 

For Career Development, Job Search, Career and Life Planning Courses.

 

Hired! is a Career development and planning guide with a strong focus on practical applications.  Unlike other textbooks, Hired! focuses on helping students develop an ongoing, flexible portfolio of information about themselves and work in order to prepare them for satisfying and productive lives in an ever-changing world. The exercises and writing activities encourage students to take a proactive role in creating their futures, motivating them to become personally responsible for their life and to become an active participant in its process. The workbook approach and step-by-step exercises keep students focused on the critical issues, self-developed goals, action plans, and execution of those plans.  At the same time, various goal-setting techniques will help convey the importance of planning to overcome career obstacles and increase the likelihood of career success.