A Kids Career Handbook

A Kids Career Handbook
Author: Anita Radosevich
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08-16
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ISBN:

The book interior includes Workbook and it is here to accompany the first published Kids Career Handbook. Are you looking for the ultimate resources to help kids explore exciting career paths? A Kids Career Handbook is perfect for you! Do you have a child who is curious about careers? Are you looking for a way to help them explore their options and make informed decisions about their future? If so, then you need A Kids Career Handbook (For Parents and Children). This comprehensive guide is packed with information that will help kids of all ages learn about different careers, from doctors and lawyers to firefighters and artists. It includes: A wide range of career profiles: Each profile provides an overview of the job, including the duties, education requirements, and salary potential. Tips for exploring careers: Kids will learn how to shadow professionals, research different careers, and develop their own career goals. Parent-child activities: These activities will help parents and kids talk about careers together and create a plan for the future. This fantastic workbook has 15 of the most exciting careers for kids! Each career comes to life with: Child-friendly images that leap out of the pages, depicting each career. Quick explanations of each profession so it's easy to understand. A list of core skills needed for each job, showing kids what they can learn and be great at. Basic tools they might need, like a superhero's special gadgets to do their job well. Real-life stories from people working in those careers, inspiring kids to dream big. Questions to spark kids' imaginations and make them think about their future. Space to write down any thoughts and ideas. Extra activities and resources to keep their journey of discovery going. A Kids Career Handbook (For Parents and Children) is the perfect resource for any child who is interested in learning more about careers. It is also a great tool for parents who want to help their children make informed decisions about their future. Here are some of the benefits of reading this book: Kids will learn about a wide range of careers and their different requirements. Kids will develop their own career goals and learn how to achieve them. Kids will learn how to research careers and talk to professionals about their jobs. Parents and kids will have a better understanding of careers and how to help kids make informed decisions about their future. Whether you're a teacher, a parent, or a guardian, this handbook will help you support kids on their exciting journey to zero in on their passion!

The UX Careers Handbook

The UX Careers Handbook
Author: Cory Lebson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000484068

This second edition of The UX Careers Handbook offers you all the great advice of the first edition—freshly updated—plus a new chapter on critical soft skills, much more on becoming a UX leader, and a 17th user experience (UX) career pathway. The UX Careers Handbook, Second Edition, offers you an insider's advice on learning, personal branding, networking skills, building your resume and portfolio, and actually landing that UX job you want, as well as an in-depth look at what it takes to get into and succeed in a UX career. Whether your interests include design, information architecture, strategy, research, UX writing, or any of the other core UX skillsets, you'll find a wealth of resources in this book. The book also includes: Insights and personal stories from a range of industry-leading UX professionals to show you how they broke into the industry and evolved their own careers over time Activities and worksheets to help you make good decisions and build your career Along with the book, you can explore its companion website with more resources and information to help you stay on top of this fast-changing field. Not only for job seekers, The UX Careers Handbook, Second Edition, is a must-have for Employers and recruiters who want to better understand how to hire and keep UX staff Undergraduate and graduate students thinking about their future careers Professionals in other careers who are thinking about starting to do UX work Cory Lebson has been a UX consultant and user researcher for over two decades. He is Principal and Owner of a small UX research consultancy, a builder of UX community, and a past president of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA). Not only a practitioner of UX, Cory teaches and mentors to help professionals grow their UX skills and conducts regular talks and workshops on topics related to both UX skills and career development.

Skills for Success

Skills for Success
Author: Karen E. Wolffe
Publisher: American Foundation for the Blind
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Blind children
ISBN: 9780891289432

This innovative handbook offers special education teachers, career counselors, and parents a comprehensive range of tested techniques and strategies to help youngsters who are blind or visually impaired begin to build the skills they need for successful careers. It introduces specific activities for preparing visually impaired children from preschoolers through middle school for the next level of schooling and to become independent in daily life, confident about their career choices, and skillful on their future jobs.

The Encore Career Handbook

The Encore Career Handbook
Author: Marci Alboher
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0761175105

Until recently, most Americans equated the end of a successful career with the beginning of retirement. No more. Now they want to stay in the game (or better, change the game). They want to leave a mark. Make a difference—and continue to make money. From Encore.org, the leading organization in the field, comes a road map to every step of the encore career journey. Here’s how to plan the transition. How much you need to make. The pros and cons of going back to school. When to volunteer, and when to intern. How to network effectively and harness the power of social media. Who’s hiring and for what jobs? (Check out the Encore Hot List of 35 viable careers). A comprehensive, nuts-and-bolts guide, filled with inspiring stories and answering—in extensive FAQ sections—the concerns of its readers, this book is everything you need to help you strike a balance between doing good and doing well--in a way that will sustain you through this new stage of life.

Career Handbook

Career Handbook
Author: Canada. Human Resources Development Canada
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
Total Pages: 1090
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The purpose of this handbook is to provide useful, reliable, and accessible information about occupations to counsellors and their clients. The handbook is arranged according to the National Occupational Classification and contains information about occupations in 897 distinct groups. Each group is presented in the form of an occupational profile that provides a holistic picture of the occupation, with certain elements emphasized for counsellor interpretation. Each group is displayed on two facing pages with standardized sections including occupation codes, descriptor profile (prominent aptitudinal, interest, and worker function elements of the occupation), examples of job titles, employment requirements, typical workplaces or employers, occupational options such as mobility, similar occupations classified elsewhere, and comments.

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People, Third Edition

The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People, Third Edition
Author: Carol Eikleberry
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307768503

You don't have to stifle your creative impulses to pay the bills. For anyone who's ever been told, "Don't quit your day job," career counselor Carol Eikleberry is here to say, "Pursue your dreams!" Now in its third edition, her inspiring guide provides knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools to help artistic individuals figure out how to remain different, unconventional, and hard-to-categorize while finding work they love. The revised third edition of the popular guide for offbeat individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills, talents, and passions. Updated throughout, including new inspiration and tips for keeping a creative job notebook. Descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, Web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). Previous editions have sold more than 60,000 copies.Reviews“What a great manual for young rebels and older freethinkers who are plotting their next career move.”—Boston Globe From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Careers Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Future

The Careers Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Future
Author: DK
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0241575338

From creating life-saving vaccines to developing the most incredible computer games, this job e-guide features hundreds of careers, including trending opportunities. Do you have a passion but can't work out how to make a career out of it? Do you want to change your career but don't know where to start? Are you worried about career development? Or are you overwhelmed by so much advice you are lost in a sea of information? You're not the only one - and The Careers Handbook is here to steer you in the right direction. This indispensable e-guide is ideal for teenagers and newly qualified graduates. Career counsellors will also find this a trustworthy companion for helping students with their future career planning. So, whether you want to become a nurse or home decorator, a chef or cyber-security analyst (or you simply have no idea!) this book is your ultimate source. Concise and combining a user-friendly approach with a bold, graphic design, The Careers Handbook is like having your very own career coach.

The Handbook of Career Advising

The Handbook of Career Advising
Author: Kenneth F. Hughey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1118443578

The Handbook of Career Advising "The Handbook of Career Advising not only provides a general introduction to this important academic advising function, but offers many practical applications that can help students make realistic and timely career decisions. As students face an ever-changing and complex workplace, helping them integrate their academic and career decisions has never been more important. This book is an excellent resource for advisors; it helps them become more cognizant of the critical role they play and will facilitate the development of the knowledge and competencies required to perform this important advising task." Virginia Gordon, associate professor emeritus, The Ohio State University "This book provides a wealth of information for anyone whose work involves helping students discover how intentional choices in curricular and cocurricular educational experiences can prepare them for tomorrow's workplace. The theoretical foundations, information and resources, frameworks for practice, and recommendations for the future included in this book will guide academic advisors as they positively influence students' lives by helping them systematically and enthusiastically approach their career development." Mary Stuart Hunter, assistant vice provost, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina "The Handbook of Career Advising provides excellent information, resources, and examples of how academic advisors can become more knowledgeable and comfortable in providing career advising. Here, authors address critical issues such as diversity, working with specific student groups, and working with undecided or exploratory students. This book provides examples that illustrate how career and academic advising are significant parts of the teaching and learning process that support student success on our campuses." Casey Self, executive director, Academic Advising, University College, Arizona State University, and 2009 NACADA president

The Teen Vogue Handbook

The Teen Vogue Handbook
Author: Teen Vogue
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-11-28
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0698197224

Amy Astley, former Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief, says: “The Teen Vogue Handbook is a dream book, a truly creative book filled with tips on the stylish life from the top people in the industry.” The key to this book is the mix of beautiful pictures, career advice and profiles of everyone and every aspect of the fashion industry. There are hugely famous people interviewed (Marc Jacobs, Bruce Weber, Patrick DeMarchelier) alongside assistants and others who are just getting started. The book includes 6 sections: Designers, Editors, Stylists, Beauty, Photographers and Models. And in every section, the people in the profile share simple tips on how to live the Teen Vogue lifestyle, now.

Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning 12th Edition

Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning 12th Edition
Author: Justin Ross Muchnick
Publisher: Peterson's
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0768940664

With input from teens, parents, and numerous experts, Teens' Guide to College & Career Planning knows just how to talk to high school students about the important decisions involving life after graduation. This easy-to-read guide, with updated content, enables busy students to hone in on the right information for them. Whether it's mapping the road from high school to college, figuring out financial aid, determining if joining the military is the right move, preparing for an interview, or developing early career skills, Teens' Guide addresses each option available to young adults with meaningful information. Inside you'll find valuable advice from guidance counselors, instructors, college admission officials, military officers, and-most importantly-other high school students! Also includes, expert tips for interviews, resumes, and cover letters. With new content written by Justin Muchnick, current high school junior and author of Peterson's® The Boarding School Survival Guide, this guide will help you get ready for life after high school.