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Martin Yate's CareerSmarts: Jobs with a Future is about finding work, but it's aimed not so much at the entry-level job-seeker as the downsized or dissatisfied employee who needs or wants to make an occupational change that will be compatible with today's aspirations and tomorrow's demands. The first part examines ways to establish a viable career direction; the second offers analysis of more than 175 opportunities in health care, technology, business and professional services, and public service.
From Library Journal
Yate is a former personnel director and the author of the popular "Knock 'Em Dead" series of job-search books. While his previous titles focused on getting and keeping jobs, his latest deals with career identification and selection. He takes the reader through a process of identifying personal preferences, resulting in a "professional competency profile" that is generated by scoring oneself as low, average, or high on such variables as basic functional skills, thinking skills, and people skills?measures that are of course subject to the vagaries of the reader's self-perception. The second section contains job descriptions and industry analyses that are well written and thorough but far from exhaustive?a list of further readings for each entry would have been a welcome addition. Still, although many self-assessment factors are not considered and many occupations are absent, this work provides a theoretically sound, reader-friendly approach to career decision-making. Used in conjunction with other career materials and resources, it is a valuable addition to the career self-help literature.?Alan J. Farber, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
