Discover Your Career Path: A Guide to Finding Success After College with You Majored in What?

Shankar: The book was new and had excellent delivery.

United States on Oct 18, 2023

666ragerrr666ragerrr: Perfect shape, knowing it would be different from the original book (the blue one) I would’ve got the other one when they were in stock. Other than that, good book

United States on Oct 16, 2022

Carly Dennis: Katherine Brooks provides a progressive and realistic look at how students can identify career choices! As a career counselor, I spend a lot of time walking students through assessments and having conversations about their interests, values and skills. Upon reading this book, Brooks appealed to my creative, "I'm sick of the same ol' thing all the time" side. I utilized some of her activities from the book, including the wandering map and possible lives, into my career decision making class. It was a innovative approach to having the students DECIDE how a career can fit into their lives, not how they fit into a specific career field. Students tend to spend too much time wanting this magic idea for a career spit out by an assessment that they rarely stop to think about WHO they really are. Brooks provides a process oriented approach to helping students discover who they are and how they make meaning throughout their lives; in the long run, I believe this will be more helpful and fulfilling to them. Similar to happenstance theory, Brooks also spends a lot of time on chaos theory and describes career planning as a non-linear path. This is one of my favorite themes from the book. It's...

United States on Nov 13, 2013

kerri gratton: I found Katherine's book engaging and interesting. Her knowlege and experience in the career placement field helps with offering insights that I found thought provoking and useful. I enjoyed completing the exercises and found they helped me identify some of my strengths and weaknesses as well as motivate me to move forward in my job search. I would recommend reading this book if you are currently thinking about earning a degree, graduated from university, applying for a practicum, grad school, or entering the workforce.

Canada on Jun 09, 2012

Alexandra A,: Working for more than 10 years with liberal arts college students in a career center setting, I find this book to resonate extremely well with that population. I wish I could give them each a copy! The myth of the linear career path (major=career) is so dominant it's hard to get students to see past it. But this book gives me a clear way to explain it (plus lots of great anecdotes and tangible activities). The author also uses the power of story to appeal to liberal arts students by quoting literature and movies - content with which young people in college are highly familiar and comfortable. The more logistical advice on resumes and interviewing is very solid and reflects industry standard for new college grads of this era. But the real gold is the positive spirit and conceptual framework for helping our "open-minded" (not "lost" or "clueless" - words have power, after all) students tackle a daunting process that they may otherwise stick their heads in the sand to avoid. I started implementing it with students the day I read the book!

United States on Jun 29, 2011

O: "you majored in what?" provides a fresh, detailed approach to career research. about 22 years ago, i needed a career change. i attended counseling classes, and also went through the then-current volume of bolles' ubiquitous "what color is your parachute;" although i was successful in my effort, i wish this book and approach had been available then (yes, even though this book is aimed at graduating college students, i think career-changers could benefit equally from its content). the WCIYP approach is terrific as far as it goes, but it is not as straightforward and freeing-from-stereotypes as would have been helpful to me. "you majored in what?" is an open-ended brainstorming of a sort, with a framework laid out to really allow me to link experience,strengths and interests. the author uses the term "wandering map" to describe the basic tool upon which the "search" is built. "wandering" sounds a little too unfocused to me; i think it really works more like a "brainstorming map." other reviews here provide terrific detail on the content, so i'll stop here.

the book is easy to read and follow, and yet is a complete, detailed description of a confidence-building career search...

United States on Aug 01, 2009