Career Errors: Straight Talk about the Steps and Missteps of Career Development

by Frank Burtnett

Overview

The book is packed with strategies the reader can use to navigate the assortment of career transitions that individuals’ experience across the life-span.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475848410
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/26/2019
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.31(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dr. Frank Burtnett is a counseling and counselor education veteran who writes for individuals of all ages who are experiencing the school to college, education to career, employment to employment, and career to retirement transitions. His books offer concise and pragmatic solutions to the issues and problems that people experience during those transitions.

Table of Contents

Preface Part 1 –Entering, Reentering, and Moving about the World of Work Chapter 1 – Clueless about How the Career Development Process Works Chapter 2 – Sub Par Decision-making Leading to Catastrophic Consequences Chapter 3 – A Good Search Spoiled Chapter 4 – Unknown Occupations are Off the Career Radar Chapter 5 – Missed or Failed Education, Training, and Retraining Opportunities Chapter 6 – Inability to Find or Use Good Information Chapter 7 – Over-aspiring and Under-aspiring with Troubled Results Chapter 8 – Ignorance of Human Resources and Life Experiences as Career Teachers Chapter 9 – The Perils of Poor Time and Calendar Organization Chapter 10 – Failure to Use Professional Counselors Part 2 – Finding, Acquiring, and Moving into the First or Any Job Chapter 11 – Inability to Adapt to Change Chapter 12 – Inadequate Job Search Skills Chapter 13 – A Killer Resume and You are the Deceased Chapter 14 – The Interview that Implodes Chapter 15 – Poor Writing Resulting a Failure to Communicate Chapter 16 – Mismanagement of Transitions Chapter 17 - You Didn’t Get the Job and Don’t Know Why Chapter 18 – To Accept or Not Accept, the Job Offer that Is Chapter 19 – Coping with New Job Anxieties and Stresses Chapter 20 – Holding Out for the “Dream” Job Chapter 21 – Insufficient Encounters with Career Helpers Part 3 – Achieving Career Satisfaction and Dealing with the Occasional Crisis Chapter 22 – Blundered Growth, Mobility, and Maintenance Opportunities Chapter 23 – Inability to Achieve Life-Work Balance Chapter 24 – Faulty Treatment of Termination, Job Loss, and Other Career Dilemmas Chapter 25 – Ignoring the Knowledge Explosion Part 4 – Winding Down Exiting Career Chapter 26 – Poor Posturing for Career End and Retirement Chapter 27 – Mishandling Change Late in Career Part 5 – Voices that Matter Chapter 28 – Learning from the Experts Conclusion Appendix Index About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Frank Burtnett calls upon his experiences as a professional counselor and counselor educator to provide the advice, guidance, and nuances of career development issues that must be addressed if personal satisfaction is to be achieved. His “straight talk” approach is candid and refreshing.

Richard Yep

The author's wisdom is priceless...few have seen so much with such clarity, insight and hope.

Rich Feller

Career Errors is packed with the things we “do wrong” or “fail to do” in the pursuit of career success. Frank Burtnett’s conversational style of writing is like having a counselor in the room. Everyone picking up this book will see themselves on its pages.

William E. Cox

Career Errors runs the gamut of challenges people face throughout their career development. Frank Burtnett offers sound counsel to readers across the life-span about how to address these matters and ultimately achieve life-work balance.

Pat Turner

If you want to know where your job search or career path went wrong, author Frank Burtnett is ready to tell you. A counseling professional whose background includes student services and admissions work, Burtnett writes as if he is addressing students directly – not in the 'I'm your pal' way that we've come to associate with this genre, but in the 'You'd better listen because this is your life' tone that I wish more people would use. . . .[I]t would be a good bet for parents or mentors, who can glean good advice to offer for perplexing problems.

St. Paul Pioneer Press

This resource examines the development encounters that people experience across the life span. It begins with a comprehensive examination of the process and why these phrases must be understood for career satisfaction and success to be achieved. A meticulous treatment of 25 things members of the workforce 'do wrong' or 'don't do' in pursuit of career ambitions is also included. Conducting an effective job search, dealing with job loss and prospering in the workplace are among the other subjects. Throughout, the author sets life-work balance as a paramount goal and outlines strategies for achieving this illusive objective.

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