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Information for Educators

Since 1982, Indiana University Bloomington Career Development Center and Arts & Sciences Career Services has been writing and publishing college-level textbooks to meet our criteria for quality career development resources. One is designed for exploratory students and the other covers job and internship search strategies. Both are excellent texts for use in the classroom setting or career library.

Ready or Not: The Art and Science of the Job Search

Ready or Not cover imageReady or Not: The Art & Science of the Job Search, published in 2009, represents a paradigm of job searching that emphasizes research and highly customized, focused application materials. Designed for use in job-search strategies courses, and particularly those that emphasize strategies for liberal arts students, the text covers the gamut of issues related to the job search. It also includes an appendix with activities and practice exercises for each chapter. Click here for an excerpt (pdf, 85KB) from the book.

Table of contents:

  • You (self-research)
  • Researching Careers
  • Finding a Job or Internship
  • Resumes
  • Cover Letters and Other Correspondence
  • Interviewing
  • The Business of Money (budgeting and negotiation)
  • Transitioning from College to Work

Specifications:

  • Eight chapters plus introduction and appendix
  • 198 pages, 6.75" x 8.25"
  • Includes a variety of sample resumes and correspondence with commentary

Choices and Challenges: Charting Your Career Path

Charting Your Career Path cover imageChoices and Challenges: Charting Your Career Path, published in 2002 (newly-written version coming in summer 2010), is written for exploratory students and career exploration courses. The textbook features activities in each chapter and takes students through the self-assessment phase (including Holland's theory of interests and Jungian/Myers-Briggsian personality), career and major exploration, decision making, and goal setting.

Table of contents:

  • Effective Career Planning: What It Means to Your Success
  • Clarifying and Assessing Your Values: What's Important to You?
  • Discovering Your Skills: Assessing Your Strengths and Talents
  • Understanding Your Interests: What Are Your Passions?
  • Personality Preferences: Exploring Your Uniqueness
  • Making the Connections
  • Choosing Your Major Route: Don't Let Choosing a Major Become a Roadblock
  • Gathering Good Information: Researching Careers
  • Making Career Decisions: a Journey of Learning
  • Setting Goals and Moving Forward
  • Roadmap of the Working World: Understanding Employers' Expectations
  • Adaptability in the Workplace: The Value of Diversity
  • It's a Different World: How Technology has Changed and the Way We Look at Jobs
  • Go Global!: Planning and Preparing for the Global Job Market

Specifications:

  • Nine chapters plus introduction
  • 144 pages, 8.5" x 11" perforated workbook
  • Various charts and self-assessment exercises

Ordering Information

To place a textbook order, please call the Indiana University Bookstore at 1-800-553-6471 and ask for Mail Order; or fax a purchase order to (812) 855-4984.

  • Ready or Not: The Art and Science of the Job Search (ISBN #0-615-30284-X)
  • Choices and Challenges: Charting Your Career Path (ISBN #1-58902-909-7)

Questions

Please direct any questions to Beth Kreitl, Associate Director of Student Services.