Career Errors

Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development

By (author) Frank Burtnett

Publication date:

07 August 2014

Length of book:

252 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475807509

Career Errors: Straight Talk About the Steps and Missteps of Career Development examines the career development encounters that people experience across their life-span. The book begins with a comprehensive examination of the career development process and why these eight phases must be understood in order for career satisfaction and success to be achieved. This analysis is followed by a meticulous treatment of 25 things members of the workforce “do wrong” or “don’t do” in pursuit of our career ambitions. Conducting an effective job search, dealing with job loss or termination, and how best to prosper in the workplace, are among the subjects included. Throughout the book, the author sets life-work balance as a paramount goal and outlines strategies about how this illusive objective can be achieved. Career Errors is the next best thing to having a professional career counselor in the room. While written for the individual experiencing the various life and work activities, this book is also of significant value to counselors, educators, and others playing important roles in these transitions.

Introduction Part 1 –Entering, Reentering, and Moving about the World of Work Chapter 1 – Clueless about How the Career Development Process Works Chapter 2 – Sub Par Decision-making Leading to Catastrophic Consequences Chapter 3 – A Good Search Spoiled Chapter 4 – Unknown Occupations are Off the Career Radar Chapter 5 – Missed or Failed Education, Training, and Retraining Opportunities Chapter 6 – Inability to Find or Use Good Information Chapter 7 – Over-aspiring and Under-aspiring with Troubled Results Chapter 8 – Ignorance of Human Resources and Life Experiences as Career Teachers Chapter 9 – The Perils of Poor Time and Calendar Organization Chapter 10 – Failure to Use Professional Counselors Part 2 – Finding, Acquiring, and Moving into the First or Any Job Chapter 11 – Inadequate Job Search Practices Chapter 12 – A Killer Resume and You are the Deceased Chapter 13 – The Interview that Explodes Chapter 14 – Poor Writing Resulting in Poor Documents Chapter 15 – Avoiding the Now What Dilemma Chapter 16 - You Didn’t Get the Job and Don’t Know Why Chapter 17 – To Accept or Not Accept, the Job Offer that Is Chapter 18 – Coping with New Job Anxieties and Stresses Chapter 19 – Insufficient Encounters with Career Helpers Part 3 – Achieving Career Satisfaction and Dealing with the Occasional Crisis Chapter 20 – Blundered Growth, Mobility, and Maintenance Opportunities Chapter 21 – Inability to Achieve Life-Work Balance Chapter 22 – Faulty Treatment of Termination, Job Loss, and Other Career Dilemmas Chapter 23 – Ignoring the Knowledge Explosion Part 4 – Winding Down Exiting Career Chapter 24 – Poor Posturing for Career End and Retirement Chapter 25 – Mishandling Change Late in Career Conclusion

If you want to know where your job search or career path went wrong, author Frank Burtnett is ready to tell you. A counseling professional whose background includes student services and admissions work, Burtnett writes as if he is addressing students directly – not in the 'I'm your pal' way that we've come to associate with this genre, but in the 'You'd better listen because this is your life' tone that I wish more people would use. . . .[I]t would be a good bet for parents or mentors, who can glean good advice to offer for perplexing problems.