Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Careers - General

Handbook of Vocational Psychology identifies, reports, and evaluates significant developments in vocational psychology and career counseling, and in doing so provides both professional clinicians and students with an informed understanding of both the current state and continuing progress in the field. As in previous editions, the fourth edition links theory and research with the more applied aspects of this field: four sections cover, in order, the field's history, theory, research, and practical applications. Clinicians, students, and academics at all levels of experience will find that...

The nature of human resource development (HRD) has been, and remains, a contested topic the debate was sparked in part by Monica Lee s seminal 2001 paper which refused to define the discipline of HRD, but has been accentuated by increasing globalization, political unrest, inequality and the erosion of boundaries. Should HRD now be seen as more than training, or a sub-function of large western bureaucracy? This book represents a very wide view of HRD: that it is at the core of our selves and our relationships, and that we continually co-create ourselves, our organisations and societies....

Faculty members, administrators, and professionals with experience at all levels of higher education offer candid, practical advice to help beginning academics understand matters including:
The different kinds of institutions of higher learning and expectations of faculty at each.
The advantages and disadvantages of teaching at four-year colleges instead of research universities.
The ins and outs of the job market.
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This book addresses the difficult decisions in the life of law students, graduates and young law professionals in deciding the area of legal practice to pursue as a career.
The number of legal fields and subfields is over one hundred, making it virtually impossible for an upcoming lawyer to explore all of these career avenues. Many
students finish law school with little understanding of what specific law careers involve, for example, or what sports or space lawyers routinely do. 

This book highlights the time-consuming nature of law education and training...