Career success: actions that lead to achievement and satisfaction -- Understanding the career development process -- The importance of career exploration, decision making, and goal setting -- Learning about yourself: Implications for your future career -- The dynamics of the American Workplace: Past, present, and future -- Strategies for learning about the world of work -- Mounting a career search: asking the right questions -- Sources of information about careers -- Relating education to career development -- Educational paths to careers -- Identifying job opportunities -- First steps in the job-seeking process -- Strategies for successful career and job interviews -- Career growth, mobility, and maintenance -- Factors influencing career success -- Counselors as career development allies -- Parents, people, and the career development process -- Some closing thoughts about expectations -- Appendix: Career and college websites.
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