Career Success

Career Success by Marsha Fralick. Misc. Supplies edition. ISBN: 9781792466984.

Career Success by Marsha Fralick: This fourth edition features an updated chapter on career satisfaction and success. Concepts from positive psychology are used to help students assume responsibility for career planning, increase motivation, build on their strengths, think positively about the future, and clarify what happiness means to them. This textbook helps students increase self-understanding by exploring their personality types, multiple intelligences, skills, interest, and values, along with matching careers. Vocational assessment includes the TruTalent Personality, Multiple Intelligences, and Skills assessments. The O*Net Interest Profiler is also integrated into the textbook. An online career portfolio summarizes the results of the assessments and provides links to the O*Net database of careers as well as links ot current available jobs at Indeed.com. Material is provided to help students set goals based on personality type, interests, values and multiple intelligences. Information is provided on current career trends, the career decision making process educational planning, and researching career information and outlook. Updated job search strategies include online personal branding and using social media and other online job search tools. Interactive activities within the text help students to practice the material learned. Frequent quizzes and answer keys withing the chapters help students with reading comprehension and check understanding of key concepts. Journal entries help students think critically and apply what they have learned to their personal lives. An interactive online edition, Career Success Online, is available. Individual and group exercises are included at the end of each chapter. The College Success Website at www.collegesuccess1.com has resources for faculty and students including interactive exercises, handouts, and resources that engage students in learning and make teaching easier.