College Career Centers
Sell your skills, not your degree since graduating, you probably have developed skills beyond what you learned in college. Hence, may not have to return to college if you want or need to change careers.
Introduction to the Boston College Career Center
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Real Life Teens: Preparing For College $49.95 In this modern world getting a college education is extremely important for one’s life and career goals. Today, too many teens are dropping out of high school. This program is designed to help teens get more involved in their own college preparation. Real Teens discusses the issues and problems faced by teenagers dealing with college preparation and shows the importance of preparing for college. Subjects covered include: Ways to prepare for college. The importance of graduating from High School. SAT’s and their importance. The importance of choosing the right college. Developing good study habits. Where to ask for help with college preparation. Future Careers. Runtime: 20 minutes |
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200 Best Jobs for College Graduates $14.95 In just two steps, 200 Best Jobs for College Graduates helps you quickly and easily narrow your career options (step 1: the lists) and learn more about jobs of interest (step 2: the job descriptions). This new edition features best job lists showing careers with the most improved outlook since the last edition. For each job, the book now includes career pathways from the 16 U.S. Department of Education career clusters, new career facts, and the latest data available for good career decision making. |
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The Community College Experience PLUS $34.95 This book is written with the community college student in mind, the non traditional student who needs basic information, as well as encouragement that going to college and balancing work and family can be accomplished. It also provides first generation students with an understanding of college’s culture and function. Their success will hinge on whether or not they are adequately prepared for the unique challenges that they will face. This book covers a range of topics that will give the first time community college student the advantage: from examining why a student has enrolled in college, to forging meaningful relationships while in college, to how to write, make presentations, and study effectively, to what a student will do after attending a community college. Different from the version of the book published in 2005, this expanded edition offers more exercises at the end of the chapters so that students can spend time reflecting and researching the ideas that are presented. More information has been added about health issues and relationships so that students are better prepared physically, mentally, and emotionally to make the commitment to complete a certificate or degree. Features include: Community College Student Profile At the beginning of every chapter. Allows students to see themselves in the profiles. Embedded chapter exercises Practice and Critical Thinking; Collaboration and Reflection. Allows instructors to stop at key points in the text and provide an activity for students. VARK Learning Styles application chart Allows students to see how circumstances will change when they go directly into (or back into) their career after graduation from college. “Think About It” questions At the end of each chapter. Allows students to think about the implications of the subjects in each chapter. “Research It Further Ideas” At the end of each section in the book. Allows the student to take the information in each chapter a step further by providing ideas for research and presentations. Integrity Matters Included in each chapter, covers both academic and personal information. Allows students to understand how integrity is essential to education and a good life. Path of Discovery Journal Entry included in each chapter. Readers are asked to reflect on and write about a topic presented in the chapter. From College to University and From College to Career These sections apply the chapter’s content to the world beyond the community college. Allows students to see how these essential keys to college success are building blocks for fulfillment. Case Scenarios A few case studies are presented to allow students to apply what they learned from the chapter to real life scenarios. Author: Amy Baldwin Published: December 2005 ISBN: 0 13 221560 8 384 Pages |
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Graduate with a Job: Getting College Students Hired & Equipping Them for Career & Life Success $14.95 Get Ready to Get Hired! Graduate With A Job teaches breakthrough and dynamic principles designed to get students hired! Stephen Jennings, author of the book Promoting Yourself turns to the principles he’s studied, taught, and lived for more than 16 years in this breakthrough and inspiring guide that will dramatically improve student’s ability to stand out from the crowd and get hired. “So what separates the candidates? Communication. Giving an appropriate answer in an interview is OK but having a portfolio to back it up is great. That is the candidate that will get my attention.” ~ Captain John Spinner, Human Resources Officer What’s the key to getting hired? Being able to effectively market, promote, package and communicate your skills, talents, and experience. Students will learn how to take their experience while in school and create a personal Success Portfolio, making them stand out from the crowd as a top candidate and ultimately get them hired. Students will also learn the key to true success in a career and in life, helping others as Christ taught us. www.GraduateWithAJob.com Stephen L. Jennings, Speaker, Author & Coach is also the author of the breakthrough book Promoting Yourself. His passion is helping others achieve their goals for career and life success. He has over 16 years experience in sales, management and leadership roles utilizing the tools taught in this book and teaching others. He is a contributing writer for ChristianJobs.com. He received his business degree from Campbell University and later went on to earn his MBA from Averett University. He is also an ordained pastor. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Theresa and their three children, Eli, Grace, and Sophia. |
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College Major Quizzes: 12 Easy Tests to Discover Which Programs Are Best $14.95 Despite an economic slowdown or perhaps because of it college business is booming. More and more people are choosing to go back to school to upgrade their skills or change careers entirely. More high school seniors are entering college, not because they know what they want to study or what career to pursue, but because they feel like they should. The result: more and more students facing the giant brick wall that is choosing a college major. Whether its the doe eyed freshman without a clue, the disenchanted junior who realizes English is not the right degree for him, or the unemployed secretary who feels like she needs to get in on the health care craze but doesn’t know how, the nation is full of current and college bound students who have a very hard choice to make and no methodical way to make it. The twelve assessments in College Major Quizzes coaches them through the process of making that decision. By assessing their skills, interests, values, goals, personality, preferences, motives, assumptions, learning styles, and long term career plans this book will help readers explore their options, evaluate the merits of each, and then choose the college program that fits them and their career goals best. |
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The Best Test Perparation for the CLEP College-Level Examinationprogam [With CDROM] $29.95 REA’s CLEP College Composition & College Composition Modular Test Prep Earns You College Credits! If you’re looking for an easy and inexpensive way to earn college credit, why not take either the CLEP College Composition or the CLEP College Composition Modular exam? The CLEP College Composition & CLEP College Composition Modular test prep is the latest addition to REA’s CLEP library. Our CLEP test preps are perfect for adults returning to college (or attending for the first time), military service members, high school graduates looking to earn college credit, or home schooled students with knowledge that can translate into college credit. The CLEP College Composition and CLEP College Composition Modular exams assess the writing skills taught in most first year college composition courses. This test prep gives you targeted review chapters that focus on the writing skills tested on both of the exams, including: The book includes four full length practice tests (two for CLEP College Composition and two for CLEP College Composition Modular) that mirror the actual CLEP exams. Every exam comes with detailed feedback on every question. We don’t just say which answers are right—we explain why the other answer choices are wrong—so you can identify your strengths and weaknesses while building your skills. Our interactive TestWare CD features two of the book’s practice tests (one for CLEP College Composition and one for CLEP College Composition Modular) in a timed format with automatic scoring, diagnostic feedback, and detailed explanations of all answers. We help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you’ll succeed when it counts! A study schedule and test taking strategies round out this complete test prep package. REA has a vast library of CLEP test preps that can help you earn college credit while saving you valuable time and money. Visit www.rea.com to see all of our CLEP titles. What is CLEP? CLEP is the College Board’s credit by examination program for more than 30 subjects. Each exam passed earns the student between 3 12 credits at more than 2,900 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. REA is the acknowledged leader in CLEP preparation, with the most extensive library of CLEP titles and software available. Most titles are offered with REA’s exclusive TestWare software to make your practice more effective and more like exam day. REA’s CLEP test preps will help you earn valuable college credits, save on tuition, and advance your chosen career by earning a college degree. |
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College Cooking $13.56 College Cooking |
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Essentials of College Mathematics, 2nd Edition $93 With applications to fourteen different career categories, The Essentials of College Mathematics, Second Edition is designed for students from a wide range of technical and career fields that require a solid understanding of basic math, elementary algebra, trigonometry, and geometry. Economical and easy to use, it is written in a step by step format, incorporates a “spiral learning” approach, and is supported by numerous examples, exercises and practice tests. Throughout the text, examples are presented in both symbolic and narrative form and all concepts are applied directly to careers and professions. Clear explanations and real world applications make this the most relevant and student friendly textbook for today’s students. Features include: Six step approach to problem solving–is introduced in the preface and incorporated into many applications Provides students with a systematic and logical framework for analyzing, comparing, estimating, and solving workplace applications. How to Boxes–are clearly identified throughout Give step by step direction for simplifying mathematical expressions, solving mathematical equations, and performing other mathematical operations. Demonstrate how to solve various math problems using color, examples and detailed explanations. Chapter exercises–provide a balance of drill and applied exercises Self Study Exercises–conclude each chapter and are organized by learning outcome. Chapter Review Exercises–serve as an extensive review and are organized by chapter section. Chapter Practice Tests–simulate a chapter test. Supplemental Exercises–are provided on a CD and accompanying website. Tips–are integrated throughout the text. Authors: Cheryl Cleaves & Margie Hobbs Published: August 2005 ISBN: 0 13 171480 5 704 Pages |
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The Secret to Getting a Job After College $14.95 The Secret to Getting a Job after College: Marketing Tactics to Turn Degrees into Dollars is an easy to follow guide for all majors to help you launch your career in any job market. In just four chapters, you will learn tips and tactics to attract the attention of an employer and win the competition with other candidates to get the job you want. Bonus Feature: Exclusive Online Content: Gain access to exclusive content to a companion website Includes references to many job search resources Resume examples for a variety of majors Links to useful websites Here are some of the topics that will be covered: Chapter 1: Finding Your Job: Identifying Your Best Opportunities Summary of easy to find sources of information to focus your job search Destroy the myth of what kind of job a college graduate should seek Where to uncover the jobs most students fail to ever find Create your personal brand Chapter 2: Getting the Interview: Creating Your Marketing Plan Learn to create a cover letter that generates a call from an employer See what makes a great resume that cannot be ignored Find out how to get on top of an employer’s lists of candidates How to leverage the Internet faster and more effectively Chapter 3: Acing the Interview: Building a Relationship and Selling Yourself Learn to prepare for any interview situation Find out what market research you need to do before the interview Learn the tricky questions that interviewers toss at you Know which answers work and which answers fail Chapter 4: Getting the Offer: Closing the Sale How to be sure your references will support you when the employer calls Gain the knowledge to get an offer from an employer you will want to accept Obtain tips on how to be well positioned for your next job after you start your first job |
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Career Opportunities In The Food And Beverage Industry $5.98 Career Opportunities In The Food And Beverage Industry |
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