9780757586583

College and Career Success

Author(s):
ISBN:
978-0-7575-8658-3
Edition:
5
Copyright:
2011
Pages:
524

ISBN: 978-1-4652-0358-8
$60.33
ISBN: 978-0-7575-8658-3
$75.41

New Edition

Symposium Button - Spring 2011College & Career Success, 5th ed. has been updated to help students through college, career, and lifelong success in an environment where e-learning is prevalent. Students can have a successful journey through college and into their career with positive academic and personal skills, as well as guidance for choosing a career that is right for their personality and interests.

Same great features: 

  • The Do What You Are (DWYA) personality assessment and the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) learning style inventory.
  • Personality type and learning style information help students identify what will work for them.
  • Interactive activities, group exercises, and journal entries help students think critically and apply the material they have learned.
  • Frequent quizzes and answer keys within the chapters help with reading comprehension and check understanding of key concepts.
  • Access to The College Success Website with resources for students and faculty. Student resources include key ideas and Internet links related to each chapter and Word documents for the journal entries. Resources for faculty include the Instructor Manual and other resources for teaching college success courses.

     

 New to this edition: 

  • Reorganized chapters now in the following format: Career Success, College Success, Lifelong Success. By having career first in the text, students are motivated to be successful if they have made a good choice for their college major.
  • An increased emphasis throughout on positive thinking, hope for the future, and developing future-mindedness.
  • Emphasis throughout on helping students to identify their personal strengths as a way to increase motivation. Students explore their personality strengths, values, interests and multiple intelligences as a foundation for building lifelong personal career success.
  • A new section on developing an e-learning style to help students get the most from online reading.
  • Journal entries are now designed with scaffolding to help developmental students with writing by providing topic sentences, brief outlines, and lists of possible ideas to consider when writing their responses.
  • Updated Career Trends now include "green jobs", jobs in technology and social media, healthcare, and e-commerce
  • The Interest Profiler from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been incorporated into the interest chapter. Students can identify their top interests and explore matching careers in the O*Net database of careers.
  • A new section on Moral Reasoning, based on Kohlberg's work,  has been added to the Critical Thinking chapter with new exercises to challenge students.
  • Humor in every chapter with cartoons designed to emphasize important points.
  • Color graphics illustrate the major points and enhance visual learning.
  • New motivational quotes to inspire students to be successful.
  • Updated information on the College Success Website with resources for faculty and students.


Also available in a concise format for shorter courses:
Career and College Success: Concise Version ISBN 978-0-7575-9186-0