A Job Search Manual for Counselors and Educators: How to Navigate and Promote Your Counseling Career

A Job Search Manual for Counselors and Educators: How to Navigate and Promote Your Counseling Career by Shannon Hodges. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781556202971.

This career planning handbook is full of practical, how-to tips for counselors looking for positions in counselor education, college and community college counseling, schools, and community agencies. Whether you are trying to land your first job, changing career paths, or launching your own private practice, this engaging book demystifies the process and highlights what you need to know and do to target and attain fulfilling work. Topics include tapping into the hidden job market, developing a resume/vita, writing winning cover letters, using job search planning tools and techniques, enhancing networking skills, interviewing with search committees, handling rejection, and moving from one counseling setting or specialty to another. With more than 40 years of career counseling experience between them, Hodges and Connelly offer frontline expertise and humorous personal anecdotes that help make the search process more enjoyable.