Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 –Entering, Reentering, and Moving about the World of Work
Chapter 1 – Clueless about How the Career Development Process Works
Chapter 2 – Sub Par Decision-making Leading to Catastrophic Consequences
Chapter 3 – A Good Search Spoiled
Chapter 4 – Unknown Occupations are Off the Career Radar
Chapter 5 – Missed or Failed Education, Training, and Retraining Opportunities
Chapter 6 – Inability to Find or Use Good Information
Chapter 7 – Over-aspiring and Under-aspiring with Troubled Results
Chapter 8 – Ignorance of Human Resources and Life Experiences as Career Teachers
Chapter 9 – The Perils of Poor Time and Calendar Organization
Chapter 10 – Failure to Use Professional Counselors
Part 2 – Finding, Acquiring, and Moving into the First or Any Job
Chapter 11 – Inability to Adapt to Change
Chapter 12 – Inadequate Job Search Skills
Chapter 13 – A Killer Resume and You are the Deceased
Chapter 14 – The Interview that Implodes
Chapter 15 – Poor Writing Resulting a Failure to Communicate
Chapter 16 – Mismanagement of Transitions
Chapter 17 - You Didn’t Get the Job and Don’t Know Why
Chapter 18 – To Accept or Not Accept, the Job Offer that Is
Chapter 19 – Coping with New Job Anxieties and Stresses
Chapter 20 – Holding Out for the “Dream” Job
Chapter 21 – Insufficient Encounters with Career Helpers
Part 3 – Achieving Career Satisfaction and Dealing with the Occasional Crisis
Chapter 22 – Blundered Growth, Mobility, and Maintenance Opportunities
Chapter 23 – Inability to Achieve Life-Work Balance
Chapter 24 – Faulty Treatment of Termination, Job Loss, and Other Career Dilemmas
Chapter 25 – Ignoring the Knowledge Explosion
Part 4 – Winding Down Exiting Career
Chapter 26 – Poor Posturing for Career End and Retirement
Chapter 27 – Mishandling Change Late in Career
Part 5 – Voices that Matter
Chapter 28 – Learning from the Experts
Conclusion
Appendix
Index
About the Author
