Reality And Career Planning

A guide to personal growth.

This career planning handbook describes how to identify specific assets within each of these four elements: knowledge, skills and abilities; personal characteristics; resources; and passion. It includes activities to explore personal career assets and how to apply them to a new line of work or a new way of working.

Do you really know what you want to be when you grow up? Have an idea, but dont know the first step? Need guidance or a test-free way to find the true you? Well, dont wait another second! Learn how to use the resources already out there for you! Turn your interests into a career just for you. Learn exactly what you need to do and create a plan. Become prepared for the real world!

This book makes the case that career development practice is a mental health intervention, and provides skills and strategies to support career development practitioners in their work. It explores how practitioners do more than help people navigate career paths, they change people's lives in ways that improve mental health and overall well-being.

The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on emergent thinking, the place of spirituality and the search for meaning and purpose in, with and through work, the integration of being and becoming as dimensions of career development. It will be vital reading for all those working in and studying career development, either at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level and provides a new and refreshing approach to this fast changing subject. Key themes include: Factors such as complexity, change, and contribution People's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment Contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the working world