Launch Your Career in College: Strategies for Students, Educators, and Parents

by Adele M. Scheele

Overview

Adele Scheele, a widely published career strategist, has created a roadmap designed to inspire students to use their time wisely, to help their parents become better coaches to their children, and to empower college faculty and administrators to become more active mentors.

Only a fraction of students actually know how to use college as a stepping-stone for educational exploration and social connection. Most students are keenly disappointed when the expected transformation from college to career does not automatically happen. They do not know that they have to make it happen through their own engagement. Packed with practical and accessible advice, Scheele's approach provides critical strategies to the burgeoning number of students—whether they are children of advantaged parents or children of immigrants, high school students anticipating their college career, or adult women re-entering college after years of working or childrearing. All students are seeking the American Dream, hoping that the secret to success will be included with their diplomas. Launch Your Career in College provides a guide to maximizing the returban on their educational investment.

Offering practical and accessible advice for college students, Launch Your Career in College offers a guide to maximizing the returban on students' and their parents' financial and educational investments. College is an experiment in hope. It is an expensive investment of time—often more than four years—and of money—anywhere from $4000 to $40,000 per year. Yet the biggest investment, by far, is that of hope—hope that by simply attending college students will be able to turban their majors into successful careers and rewarding lives. Students and their parents expect that college will be the single transforming agent to make them acceptable, valuable, knowledgeable, professional, and employable. Seldom is this expectation voiced, but it is there, deeply embedded in our views about higher education. It is not just hoped for. It is believed to be true. This books can help students, educators, and parents make that hope a reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275985127
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/30/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Adele M. Scheele has appeared as a career expert on such programs as NBC's Today Show and NPR. She is well known as an author and as a speaker at seminars in both the corporate and academic worlds. As former Director of the Career Center, Cal State Northridge she is an internationally recognized expert in change management. She has been hailed by business leaders, professional associations, and colleges as an original, articulate voice for men and women forging career success. She motivates and coaches people so that they can take more courageous risks for greater fulfillment in their personal and professional lives.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Alexander Astin, Ph.D.
Preface
Transforming the College Experience
Building Relationships from Friends to Mentors
Making Your Papers and Projects Work for You
Developing Your Best Self: Using Campus Clubs
Finding a Career—No Matter Your Major
Gaining Internships, Working, Service Learning, and Volunteering
Discovering Your Purpose
Finding Your First Job
Your Year-By-Year Success Plan In College
Making the Transition

What People are Saying About This

Randy M. Miller

"Scheele's refreshing approach in this book is inspiring and relevant for today's student....A must read for the competitive student."

Millie Loeb

"I'd recommend this book for everyone, my own daughter included, who wants to get the most from their college experience."

Dick Bolles

"This is a true story. I found a manuscript on my desk, with no one's name on it, so I started to read it—in the middle. I found so many really neat ideas in it, that I started to jot some down, for my personal files. This book has got some of the wisest counsel for college liberal arts students, about what to do with their training and degree, that I have ever read. Only belatedly did I discover the manuscript was a new book by an old friend of mine, Adele Scheele—one of the smartest, most caring career counselors I have ever met."

Alan Glazer

"[This book] belongs on every college student's bookshelf. It's full of practical advice about transitioning from high school to college, getting the most out of one's college experience, and launching a first career."

James E. Stofan

"Dr. Scheele's book not only demonstrates how students can maximize their educational experience but it also shows how these same strategies will lead them to success in their careers....A must read for college students."

Jolene Koester

"Adele Scheele's book is an excellent and easy-to-read resource for college students (and their parents) on how to get the most out of their college experience. As a veteran university career center director, Scheele provides straightforward and practical advice on how students can take charge of their education, make the right connections on campus with professors and peers, and then turn that learning into the right career path. Her book is a useful guide to the college experience."

Editorial Reviews

[O]ffers students practical advice and strategies to develop while in college, such as mentor-protege relationships, which can yield opportunities for college and later career success. Scheele discusses the value of projects, campus clubs, internships, and volunteer activities to future job success….Recommended. Undergraduate students at all levels.” —Choice

“Before you think of packing a toothbrush, talk to students who have preceded you and ask what they wish they had done differently.” —Newsday

“Launch Your Career in College would be great required reading for first-year students. Each chapter, serving as an umbrella for targeted subsections, teaches students how to approach their college years proactively and strategically. Laying the groundwork to ensure that students commence on a successful career jourbaney. Scheele places the responsibility for success clearly where it belongs — with the student….While students will benefit greatly from reading Launch Your Career in College, counselors, professors, and advisors also stand to gain. Because the scope of the book's material is broad, Scheele's topics and anecdotes can be observed and applied from a variety of perspectives….[a] worthwhile book because it encourages readers — students and academics alike — to capitalize on the cumulative returban on investment that emerges from the college experience.” —Campus Career Counselor

“Career development can and should take place during college years, and this well-written book describes how to best use college to prepare for career life….The high point may be the very helpful rundown of career planning activities to do in each of the four college years.” —Career Opportunities News

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