| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Understanding the new career -- Three career cases: The Barnes family, Helen Casey, The Smith family -- The changing landscape of careers -- The changing nature of families -- The new careers -- Our career and work-life model -- 2. The self-Assessment Process -- The basic areas of self-assessment -- Reflecting on the past -- Identity as a core competence -- Clarifying your values -- Understanding your interests and passions -- Lifestyle -- Understanding your life goals and personal vision -- Skill assessment -- 3. Integrating your self-assessment and developing implications -- Integrating your self-assessment -- Developing themes from your data -- Coding your data -- Grouping your data -- Assigning tentative themes -- Constructing the final themes with supporting data -- Sample themes -- Developing career and work-life implications -- 4. Finding ideal work -- Job loss -- Assessing the labor market -- Identifying the right opportunities for you -- Job search tools: references, resumes, starting a professional portfolio, cover letters -- Conducting the job search -- Networking and the job search -- Informational interviews -- Guidelines for conducting an informational interview -- Questions to ask -- Identifying the ideal employer -- Special challenges and tips for international students who want to work in the United States -- Career decision making -- 5. Career development strategies -- Organizational career paths -- From career ladders to career lattices -- Vertical careers and organizational advancement -- Managing up -- Alternative career paths -- Salzman's typology -- Backtrackers -- Plateauers -- career shifters -- Self-employers -- Urban escapees -- The portfolio career -- Ongoing development -- Organizational career systems -- International assignments -- Financial considerations |
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6. Work and family -- Men and women, families and work -- Dual-career couples -- Dual-career families -- Sources of stress -- Role conflict -- 7. Workplace flexibility -- Flexible work arrangements -- Flextime -- Compressed work week -- Part-time and reduced load work -- Job sharing -- Telecommuting -- Leaves -- Sabbaticals -- Other elements of the family-friendly workplace -- Family-friendly workplace culture -- The dark side of flexible work arrangements -- 8. Career development over the lifespan -- Lifespan development: are career and life stages still relevant today? -- Adult life stages -- Gender and life stages -- A new model for middle and later years: learning cycles -- The second (or third or fourth) career -- Protean careers and older workers -- How do we tap the potential of older workers? -- Use development relationships -- Opt for new and varied job experience -- Improve person-job brokering -- Use information technology -- Retirement -- How do I want to design my life for the third phase? -- Financial planning and careers in later life -- Summarizing careers over the lifespan -- Book summary |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Career development
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Self-evaluation
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Vocational interests
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Work and family
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Quality of work life
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Vocational guidance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hall, Douglas T., 1940-
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Sage eReference (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9781483329345 (electronic bk.) |
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1483329348 (electronic bk.) |
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