Bound-for-career guidebook : a student guide to career exploration, decision making, and the job search / Frank Burtnett.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168).

List of student exercises -- Career facts and myths -- Career success: actions that lead to achievement and satisfaction -- Understanding the career development process -- The importance of career exploration, decision making, and goal setting -- Learning about yourself: Implications for your future career -- The dynamics of the American Workplace: Past, present, and future -- Strategies for learning about the world of work -- Mounting a career search: asking the right questions -- Sources of information about careers -- Relating education to career development -- Educational paths to careers -- Identifying career opportunities and making initial contact -- Strategies for successful career and job interviews -- Career maintenance, mobility, and advancement -- Factors influencing career success -- Counselors as career development allies -- Parents, people, and the career development process -- Some closing thoughts about expectations -- Appendix: Career and educational information sources.

Provides information and exercises for career choice, development, and the transition from student life to job search.