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Great Jobs for Political Science Majors

Mark Rowh

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

Great if you are still an undergraduate! 3 out of 5 stars.
35 of 35 people found this review helpful.

This book is really insightful to those who are still earning their undergrad degrees. It offers many tips on resume writing, networking, and assessing ones own skills. If I were a junior in college this would have been a great source of information and inspiration. However, for someone who has been out of school for a short period of time, it doesn't offer much in the way of career guidance. It does offer good tips on graduate school and how to find the program that is right for you depending on what type of job you are interested in after. It also lists all the professional associations for a political scientist.

Tell Me Something I Didn't Know 2 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book may be somethat interesting for polisci majors when they are first starting out, but once a person has their degree and their resume, it is not worth the time to read it.

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Each book in the Great Jobs for... series helps students discover new employment possibilities, assess strengths and interests, and develop a path for advancement and success in a chosen field. Ideal for those exploring which major to take in college.

Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09: Library Edition (Occupational Outlook Handbook (G P O))

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Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work

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"This is a must-have for any researcher in vocational psychology or career counseling, or anyone who wishes to understand the empirical underpinnings of the practice of career counseling."
-Mark Pope, EdD
College of Education, University of Missouri - St. Louis
past president of the American Counseling Association

Today's career development professional must choose from a wide array of theories and practices in order to provide services for a diverse range of clients. Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work focuses on scientifically based career theories and practices, including those derived from research in other disciplines. Driven by the latest empirical and practical evidence, this text offers the most in-depth, far-reaching, and comprehensive career development and counseling resource available.

Career Development and Counseling includes coverage of:

• Major theories of career development, choice, and adjustment
• Informative research on occupational aspirations, job search success, job satisfaction, work performance, career development with people of color, and women's career development
• Assessment of interests, needs and values, ability, and other important constructs
• Occupational classification and sources of occupational information
• Counseling for school-aged youth, diverse populations, choice-making, choice implementation, work adjustment, and retirement
• Special needs and applications including those for at-risk, intellectually talented, and work-bound youth; people with disabilities; and individuals dealing with job loss, reentry, and career transitions

Edited by two of the leading figures in career development, and featuring contributions by many of the most well-regarded specialists in the field, Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work is the one book that every career counselor, vocational psychologist, and serious student of career development must have.

Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment (Career Opportunities)

Paul R. Greenland, Annamarie L. Sheldon

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Conservation and environmental jobs account for between 1 and 3 percent of total U.S. employment, and educational options for this field have grown significantly in recent years. According to U.S. News & World Report, there are now some 515 colleges that offer degrees in natural resources and conservation fields, 266 that offer environmental sciences programs, and 241 that offer environmental studies programs. "Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment" features more than 70 profiles of careers in these flourishing areas. Cutting across several broad industries - such as agriculture, education, engineering, law, and science - jobs in conservation and the environment can be found in such diverse settings as nonprofits, government agencies, educational institutions, hospitals, utilities, and other public and private businesses. Career profiles include: Agricultural consultant, Atmospheric scientist, Environmental attorney, Environmental engineer, Environmental science professor, Farm manager, Fish and wildlife officer, Forester, Landscape architect, Outdoor education instructor, and, Wilderness guide.

The UnCollege Alternative: Your Guide to Incredible Careers and Amazing Adventures Outside College

Danielle Kwatinetz Wood

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Think College is the Only Path to Success? Think Again!

Want to think out of the box? Want to change your perspective on your future? Feeling ambivalent about going to college and going into debt? Then join the world of alternative thinking, risk-taking, adventure seeking, and change. Join the Uncollege revolution and learn that you can create a profitable, exciting, creative, and amazingly successful future without a college degree.

Whether you're a high school student considering your next step, a college student seeking change, or even a college graduate looking for creative alternatives to the conventional path, this is up-to-date guide will provide a wealth of life-changing ideas and resources, including advice on:

• Great careers without a college degree
• Taking time off before or during college
• Opportunities for adventures around the world
• Internships, apprenticeships, and training programs
• Community service projects that pay
• Starting your own business

You are living the most exciting time in history! Seize the day! Take the Uncollege Alternative!

Guide to America's Federal Jobs: A Complete Directory of Federal Career Opportunities (Guide to America's Federal Jobs)

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Decent Book for the Novice 3 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

Ok this is a very useful, detailed guide. If you are new at looking for employment with the FEDS this guide is for you. It's very easy to read, well put together and all the information is there on one book. If you are already familiar on how to look for federal employment, know where to go and how to apply, this book could be somewhat useful. In my case I was looking for something that could have tips on improving my chances withing the federal system, unfortunately there are not real tips, just factual information. There is some room for improvement.

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The process for applying for federal jobs has changed dramatically. In a nutshell: information about job vacancies and the application process are handled electronically--there is practically no contact with people! This book tells how to find available positions, how to apply for them, lists the types of jobs available, and shows where to obtain additional information.

Career Anchors , Discovering Your Real Values

Edgar H. Schein

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In many cases, people select a career for all the wrong reasons, and find their responses to the workplace are incompatible with their true values. This situation results in feelings of unrest and discontent and in lost productivity. To help people avoid these problems, the newly-revised Career Anchors is designed to help people uncover their real values and use them to make better career choices. This revised edition includes two new sections, "Major Stages of the Career" and "Career Movement, Progress, or Success." Instructions and other components have been revamped for clarification, the references have been updated, and the contents have been rearranged for more convenient usage in classes and workshops. Career Anchors can help you think through your career options and give you a clear understanding of:

• Your own orientations toward work
• Your motives
• Your values
• Your talents

The Career Anchors Instrument and Trainer's Manual provide a systematic way of exploring how you perceive yourself, based on your own experiences. The instrument is divided into three parts?the orientations inventory, the career anchor interview, and the conceptual material. Career Anchors will help people:

• Define the themes and patterns dominant in your life
• Understand your own approach to work and a career
• Provide reasons for choices
• Take steps to fulfill your own self-image

If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else

David P Campbell

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Fantastic - required reading for EVERY highschool student! 5 out of 5 stars.
22 of 23 people found this review helpful.

This book helps you to understand the things you should consider throughout your teenage years, or even later, that will influence your adult life. It particularly focuses on choosing a career. The primary point is how to ensure you get and keep lots of options open throughout your life. Although it's really written for highschool students, college students would find it useful also. Actually, it's valuable even for adults. Very easy reading; only takes about an hour to read, but is well worth the time.

I wish I'd read this book years ago! 5 out of 5 stars.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I've heard the title of this book quoted for years. When I saw a copy at my inlaws house, I decided to read it.

Although it doesn't take lots of time to read, the return on time invested can be incredible. This is probably the best book I've read on goal setting--and I've read a ton.

I particularly like Campbell's realistic approach. He doesn't try to get you to squeeze your life into a predetermined, micromanaged mold. Instead, he offers lots of advice on how to increase your options as you go through life.

I'll be getting this book for my favorite high school grads for sure. But if you're a little past high school, as I am, don't count yourself out. This book could help just about anyone.

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This book is a refreshing ingenious approach to per-sonal growth that will help you find to do with your life and improve your relationships with family and freinds. Dr. Campbell points out to readers the many paths to a satisfying, successful life.

We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us

June Nash

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The true people's history of the mines 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

The best part about this book is that it was written 20 years after June originally arrived in Bolivia to write a book on the miners. Now she has returned and reviews the history of those 20 years and shows where today's miners, family and culture stands. This book is not a comparision of the past with the present but rather a building upon a tremendous history and struggle.

For the person not familiar with the mines and miners of Bolivia this is an excelent introduction. Here one meets a world turned upside down and inside out. Mountains are filled with spirits and miners, men ans women - side by side - fight for a better life. June enables one to share in the peoples' long history of struggle through insightful first hand accounts. She also shares her personal experience while reporting the stories and brings a more human element to the work.

June has done an excellent job identifyng and bringing to light the intricate web of cultural, political, and economical elements of Bolivian mining. I myself have relatives from the mining regions of Bolivia and wish to congratulate June on her depth and understanding of the people she presents. It is rare to find someone that has the ability to understand the cultural nuances that have a 5,000 year old tradition and see how the still prevail, albiet sometimes hidden or changed, in today's world. I wish to congratulate her on taking the time to understand the people she was studying and not perpetuating common stereotypes, of disorder, ignorance or misbegotten religious views.

I highly recommend this book to all!

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In this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.

Career Opportunities in Education And Related Services (Career Opportunities)

Susan Echaore-McDavid

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With about one in four Americans enrolled in educational institutions, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranks educational services as the second largest industry, accounting for nearly 13 million jobs. "Career Opportunities in Education and Related Services, Second Edition" profiles 103 jobs in this rewarding field. New career profiles include: Administrative support professional, Coach, Cook, Groundskeeper, Independent instructor, Library technician, Rehabilitation counselor, School custodian, School security professional, Security services professional, and more.