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Each two-volume book contains four major sections:. - Introduction and Overview: Provides forewords by notables in the field and an outline of the book. - Essays: Features eight to 10 essays on topics such as workplace issues, financial aid, diversity, and more. - Directory: Contains descriptions and contact information for hundreds of organizations, schools, and associations, arranged by topic. - Further Resources/Indexes: Includes glossaries, appendixes, further reading, and indexes

"Move ahead in your career--without leaving your family behind. What happens when you're no longer setting goals and chasing dreams that work for you alone? When the career choices you make have ripple effects on your family? Can you uproot your household for an overseas assignment even if it's a surefire path to promotion? How do you make time for your kids--or yourself--if you work more than one job? These are some of the questions you ask yourself as you struggle to balance managing your career with managing your family. In Managing Your Career, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent from negotiating a flexible schedule to overcoming the parenthood penalty whether you're taking time off, treading water, or reentering the workforce. You'll learn to: assess the impact of downshifting on your career, your home life, and your identity, make time for professional development, communicate effectively with everyone, from your boss to your toddler, boost your impact and visibility, even with an erratic schedule, build support systems to get you through rough patches at work and cope with childcare failures"--

Intro -- Preface -- Introduction -- Moira Rayner -- Her Excellency Frances Adamson -- Dr Helen Szoke -- Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea -- Anna Burke and Kelly O'Dwyer -- Lucinda Nolan -- Lisa Croxford -- Jodie Sizer -- Tracey Spicer -- Jennifer Keyte -- Lucinda Dunn, OAM -- Dr Sharon Lierse -- Lucy Roland -- Dr Hannah Piterman -- Dr Jennifer Whelan -- Samone McCurdy -- Conclusions -- Comebacks -- Additional Reading -- Acknowledgements.

This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields, it serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for specialists, professionals and post-graduate students in the careers field to study. This book allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs influencing the adaptation, adaptivity, adaptability and employability of individuals in a turbulent, uncertain, and chaotic work world. In addition, it offers the practising professional new perspectives of career constructs and measures to consider in career counseling and guidance for the contemporary career.

"Mapping Career Counseling Interventions provides an innovative insight into identifying and resolving problems within career management. In recent years, a myriad of counselling tools has been developed so that psychologists can offer the most appropriate support possible. To guide the selection of such tools, this book offers a "map" that introduces and links 63 frequent career management difficulties with more than 160 qualitative interventions and solutions"--

Transitions and continuous change -- The first industrial revolutionin the United States -- The second industrial revolution -- The third industrial revolution -- The fourth industrial revolution -- Forces impacting your career and employability -- How key megatrends of change impact organizations and careers -- The talent shortage and skills gap -- Higher education prepares students for jobs, careers, and life -- Career planning : preparing for future jobs and careers -- Shifting organizations and talent management -- Where are the jobs? -- Career planning for individuals

In this article, the author describes an innovative approach for conceptualizing and managing career development tasks in the 21st century. Theoretical foundations and key concepts related to career flow theory are discussed.