Career Errors

Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development

Career Errors

Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development

Frank Burtnett (Author)

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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 27 things active members of the workforce “do wrong” or “don’t do” in pursuit of their 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 or recruiter in the room. While written for the individual experiencing the various life and work activities, this book is also of significant value to counselors, search and staffing professionals, educators, and others playing important roles in these transitions

Preface

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 – Inability to Adapt to Change

Chapter 12 – Inadequate Job Search Skills

Chapter 13 – A Killer Resume and You are the Deceased

Chapter 14 – The Interview that Implodes

Chapter 15 – Poor Writing Resulting a Failure to Communicate

Chapter 16 – Mismanagement of Transitions

Chapter 17 - You Didn’t Get the Job and Don’t Know Why

Chapter 18 – To Accept or Not Accept, the Job Offer that Is

Chapter 19 – Coping with New Job Anxieties and Stresses

Chapter 20 – Holding Out for the “Dream” Job

Chapter 21 – Insufficient Encounters with Career Helpers

Part 3 – Achieving Career Satisfaction and Dealing with the Occasional Crisis

Chapter 22 – Blundered Growth, Mobility, and Maintenance Opportunities

Chapter 23 – Inability to Achieve Life-Work Balance

Chapter 24 – Faulty Treatment of Termination, Job Loss, and Other Career Dilemmas

Chapter 25 – Ignoring the Knowledge Explosion

Part 4 – Winding Down Exiting Career

Chapter 26 – Poor Posturing for Career End and Retirement

Chapter 27 – Mishandling Change Late in Career

Part 5 – Voices that Matter

Chapter 28 – Learning from the Experts

Conclusion

Appendix

Index

About the Author

Product details

Published	26 Jun 2019
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	2nd
Extent	276
ISBN	9781475848434
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Frank Burtnett

Frank Burtnett calls upon his experiences as a professional counselor and counselor educator to provide the advice, guidance, and nuances of career development issues that must be addressed if personal satisfaction is to be achieved. His “straight talk” approach is candid and refreshing.

Richard Yep, chief executive officer of the American Counseling Association
The author's wisdom is priceless...few have seen so much with such clarity, insight and hope.

Rich Feller, Ph.D., past president of the National Career Development Association and Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University