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

You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path From Chaos to Career by Katharine Brooks is the perfect book for academic development and career counseling. It's easy to read, provides great value for money, and is sure to leave readers feeling satisfied. It's also a great gift for those looking to make sense of their career path. Get this book today and start your journey from chaos to career!

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Are you a recent college graduate feeling overwhelmed by the transition from student to professional? Are you unsure of how to take the skills you gained from your major and apply them to the job market? You Majored In What?: Mapping Your Path From Chaos To Career is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to make sense of their college degree and start a successful career. This book provides guidance on how to take the knowledge and experience you gained in college and create a plan for a successful future. With an in-depth look at the job market and the skills employers are looking for, You Majored In What? is the perfect guide to help you make the most of your college degree.
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Details of Discover Your Career Path: A Guide to Finding Success After College with You Majored in What?

  • Item Weight ‏ ‎: 1.2 pounds
  • Best Sellers Rank: #628 in Job Interviewing #700 in Vocational Guidance #1,840 in Job Hunting
  • Job Interviewing (Books): Job Interviewing
  • Hardcover ‏ ‎: 320 pages
  • Publisher ‏ ‎: Viking Adult; First Edition
  • ISBN-10 ‏ ‎: 0670020826
  • Language ‏ ‎: English
  • Dimensions ‏ ‎: 6.32 x 1.12 x 9.28 inches
  • Reading age ‏ ‎: 18 years and up
  • Vocational Guidance (Books): Vocational Guidance
  • Job Hunting (Books): Job Hunting
  • ISBN-13 ‏ ‎: 978-0670020829
  • Customer Reviews: 4.4/5 stars of 376 ratings

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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

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Item Weight ‏ ‎ 1.2 pounds 3.53 ounces 3.03 pounds
Best Sellers Rank #628 in Job Interviewing #700 in Vocational Guidance #1,840 in Job Hunting #2 in Academic Development Counseling#42 in Children's Books on Emotions & Feelings #2 in Children's Sociology Books #5 in Academic Development Counseling
Job Interviewing (Books) Job Interviewing
Hardcover ‏ ‎ 320 pages
Publisher ‏ ‎ Viking Adult; First Edition Diane Alber Art LLC Diane Alber Art LLC
ISBN-10 ‏ ‎ 0670020826 1951287134 1951287347
Language ‏ ‎ English English English
Dimensions ‏ ‎ 6.32 x 1.12 x 9.28 inches
Reading age ‏ ‎ 18 years and up 3 - 7 years, from customers 5 - 8 years, from customers
Vocational Guidance (Books) Vocational Guidance
Job Hunting (Books) Job Hunting
ISBN-13 ‏ ‎ 978-0670020829 978-1951287139 978-1951287344
Customer Reviews 4.4/5 stars of 376 ratings 4.9/5 stars of 5,154 ratings 4.9/5 stars of 1,168 ratings
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