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Workshops

Working a Career Fair

Competencies that Build Career Success

Company Research

Self-Assessment

Want To vs. Should

Four Things Everyone Wants

Flow - Work As Play

Clarifying Your Values

Identifying Your Interests

Assessing Your Skills

Skills Sort Exercise

Motivation, Interests & Skills

Putting It All Together

Next Steps

Tools on The Web

Bibliography

Applying to Graduate School

Winning Interview Techniques

Navigating the Job & Internship Market

Negotiating Your Future

Networking 101

Online Search Strategies

Finding a Place to Start: Self Assessment

Bibliography On Skills, Interests, Values and the Career Planning Process:

  • Bolles, Richard N., 1999 What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (Annual), Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998. [Dewey Library]
  • Butler, Timothy, and Waldroop, James, Discovering Your Career in Business, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997. [1. Dewey Circulation desk / Diskette HF5381.B798 1997 disk In Library 2. Dewey Stacks / HF5381.B798 1997 In Library]
  • Figler, Howard, The Complete Job Search Handbook, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1988.
  • Newhouse, Margaret. "Outside the Ivory Tower: A Guide for Academics Considering Alternative Careers." Cambridge, MA: Harvard Career Services, 1993.
  • Rosen, Stephen, and Paul, Celia, Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals, Academic Press, 1997.
  • Schein, Edgar, Career Anchors : Discovering Your Real Values and Guide, Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer & Co., San Francsico, CA, Revised edition, March 1993.
  • Tieger, Paul & Tieger-Barkon, Barbara, Do What You Are, Little Brown & Company, Boston, MA 1992.

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