Career Management & Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to managing contemporary careers. Although grounded in theory, the book also provides an extensive set of exercises and activities that can guide career management over the lifespan. Authors Brad Harrington and Douglas T. Hall offer a highly useful self-assessment guide for students and other individuals who want to deal with the challenge of succeeding in a meaningful career while living a happy, well-balanced life. Key Features Bridges theory and application: While the book helps readers gain a better understanding of theories on careers, work life, and human resources, it also guides them to develop a tailored, personalized career strategy for themselves. Offers a rigorous self-assessment process: Serving as the book′s foundation, this self-assessment guide gives readers a wealth of information and insight regarding their own career priorities and strategies. Provides a more thorough experiential view than existing books: This book integrates work from both the career management and the work life field while most academic literature treats these two areas separately. Intended Audience Career Management & Work/Life Integration is a great resource for employers and career planning offices. This book will also by ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in Career Management; Leadership Development; Organizational Behavior; and Human Resource Management in the departments of business, management, and organizational psychology. Instructor′s Resources Available upon request, an instructor′s resource CD accompanies the book and includes such teaching aids as PowerPoint slides, and teaching notes for each chapter, as well as assignments, key concepts, and terms for each chapter.

Academic research by economists, educators, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists has made the study of careers in organizations an important interdisciplinary focus in the social sciences. This annotated bibliography, first published in 1983, brings together significant academic research from various disciplines.

Career Management for Life provides students and employees with an integrative approach to managing their careers on an ongoing basis to achieve a satisfying balance between their work and their family responsibilities, community involvement, and personal interests. The career management model guides individuals through the different phases of their career from figuring out what their first job should be right to navigating the road to retirement. Expert authors Greenhaus, Callanan, and Godshalk bring their wealth of research experience to the book and demonstrate the individual and organizational sides of career management, allowing an appreciation of both. This material is well balanced by a set of practical tools, including self-assessments, case studies, and recommended interviews. The new edition also includes: An emphasis on attaining work-life balance, a topic that is of growing concern to workers at all stages of their careers. An updated focus on today’s career contexts and stages. Material on technology and social media, now integrated throughout the book, to reflect the growing importance of these tools in career management and development. A chapter on international careers, helping individuals face a globalized world. Greater emphasis on alternative career paths, reflecting the newest trends and helping individuals understand all the different career options available to them. This rich and engaging book will help individuals understand themselves better, which in turn allows them to understand what they really want out of their career. Those taking (or offering) classes in career management or career development will come to rely on this book for years to follow.

Thanks to their education, experience, and general philosophical orientation, many engineers fail to notice critical issues in the workplace that can directly impact their career advancement and day-to-day job satisfaction. This text focuses on career management, and the accompanying importance of human and social interactions in the office. Althou

Attention all artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, actors, and anyone working in creative fields -- even if your chosen profession is not the most traditional one, cultivating and growing a successful, financially rewarding career is still your goal. In Career Management for the Creative Person, Lee Silber provides you with expert advice on overcoming some of the specific challenges faced by right-brainers who want a career that is both satisfying and successful. Freelancers, those thinking about changing careers midstream, and even creative people working in corporate environments need a set of skills that will turn their passion into a viable career. These skills include: * How to chose the career that best suits your talents * Setting realistic goals using right-brain techniques * How to avoid the pitfalls that ruin a creative career * How to schmooze your way to success * How to create a business plan when you are the business * How to be disciplined when you are your own boss When you find an outlet for your creativity in the form of a career, you'll discover a freedom in your working life that you can live with for the long term. You can follow your passion, build a brilliant career, and have financial security -- if you know which skills to use. Let Lee Silber show you the way.