Three Formats Available
The textbook is available in three formats: printed, e-book (RedShelf and VitalSource), and interactive Web version.
The Web version includes interactive elements that engage students in learning and includes automated grading features. It can be integrated into your course management system for ease of access. Here is a video of the Web version showing sample interactive and an overview of the career assessments.
Video of Interactive Features and Assessments of the Web Version of Career Success
Features
- 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 personality types, multiple intelligences, interests, and values along
with matching careers.
- Vocational assessments include the TruTalent Personality, Multiple Intelligences and Skills Assessments.
The O*Net Interest Profiler is also integrated into the text.
- An online career portfolio summarizes the results of the assessments and provides links to the O*Net database of careers as well as links to
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 including 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 within 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 editon, College and Career Success Online, is available. Individual and group exercises are included at the end of each chapter.
- This website has resources for faculty and students that make teaching and learning easier. The Instructor Manual contains the PowerPoint Library, Test Bank, and over
500 pages of interactive exercises, handouts, and video suggestions.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Create Your Success
What is your personal definition of career success? Choosing your major and finding your ideal career; using motivation to increase your success; education and lifetime earnings; thinking positively about the future; taking control of your life; visualizing your success, secrets to happiness, creating your success.
Chapter 2: Exploring Your Personality and Major
Choosing a major that matches your gifts and talents; understanding personality types (extraversion, introversion, sensing, intuition, thinking, feeling, judging, perceiving); personality and preferred work environment, decision making, time management, money management, and career choice; other factors in choosing a major, finding your passion. This chapter contains the updated TruTalent Personality Assessment.
Chapter 3: Exploring Interests and Values
Exploring your interests (realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional); interests and lifestyle; using values to make important life decisions, act on your values.
Chapter 4: Exploring Multiple Intelligences
Your mindset makes a difference; grit, a powerful tool for student success; multiple intelligences; build on your strengths; using emotional intelligences; creating your future. This chapter contains the updated TruTalent Multiple Intelligences Assessment.
Chapter 5: Planning Your Career and Education
Keep your eyes on the future; baby boomers, generation X, the Millenials, Generation Z and the new Generation Alpha; developments affecting future careers; career trends for 2024-2030; work skills for the 21st century; researching your career; planning your education; making good decisions.This chapter contains the updated TruTalent Skills Assessment.
Chapter 6: Updated Job Search Strategies
Increasing your chances for employment; get started with a resume and cover letter; establishing your personal brand online; using online tools; the job interview; starting your own business; taking action; you are what you think.
Chapter 7: Career Satisfation
More on finding your passion; finding meaning in your work; money and job satisfaction; predictors of job satisfaction; how to succeed in your career; essential work skills for 2020 and beyond; communication for success; emotional intelligence and success; lifetime goals; using priorities to guide your actions; some positive thoughts for the future.
Request a Complimentary Review Copy for Possible Adoption
Online Edition
Contact me at marsha@marshafralick.com or Carla Lundman of HumanEsources at carlal@humanesources.com for an online demo of this textbook. Here is a brief video introducing the online version.
Printed Edition
If you are considering this text for possible adoption in your course and would like a complimentary printed copy of new 4nd Edition, I can expedite a copy from the publisher.
Send your request to:marsha@marshafralick.com Include this info in your email:
Title:Career Success, 4th Ed.
Your name
Your address
College name
Course name
Annual course enrollment
What is the title of the current text you are using?
Anticipated number of copies you will order for students next semester
Request Instructor Copies
Printed Edition
To order instructor copies, please ask your department chair to request copies from Paul Meyer of Kendall Hunt Publishing at pmeyer@kendallhunt.com. Please provide this information:
Title: Career Success, 4th Edition
Name of Department Chair
College Name
Address for mailing the textbooks
Number of instructors using the textbook
Anticipated number of copies you will order for students next semester
Online Edition
Contact Carla Lundman of HumanEsources at carlal@humanesources.com to set up the account for your college and coordinate with your bookstore.
Purchase a Resource Copy
If you are using this text as a resource in your class or at your college, and not considering adoption, you can purchase a printed copy at Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Ordering the Printed Edition for Your Bookstore
Career Success, 4rd Edition
ISBN: 979-8-3851-5998-7
Kendall Hunt Publishing
Author: Marsha Fralick
Ordering the Online Edition for Your Bookstore
Career Success, 4rd Edition
ISBN: 979-8-9863054-8-6
Contact Carla Lundman of HumanEsources at carlal@humanesources.com to set up your account and coordinate with your bookstore. |
