Career toolkit (4th ed ) (4^th Ed.)
Skills for Success

The Career Tool Kit is designed to especially help community college and vocational school students of all agesdevelop the skills and attitudes needed to successfully complete their educational program:search for, find, and win the job they want transition smoothly from school to work or successfully re-enter the workforce and build a long, happy, and successful working life, all in a user-friendly and visually appealing design.

Coverage of important topics includes developing and maintaining a positive self image, managing time, budgeting and organizing finances, avoiding or reducing credit debt, and tracking down the resources available at school, in the community, and online. A focus on self-awareness teaches readers how to get to know themselves better so that they understand what kinds of jobs might best suit their unique talents and qualities, how to network and locate job opportunities, and how to present themselves in the best possible light on a resume as well as in an interview, and how to handle both failure and success. Additional topics discuss workplace communication with managers, co-workers, clients, and customers qualities and skills that employers look for in their employees rights on the job critical thinking at work improving and maintainingmental health and social intelligence motivation, and more.

TAKING INVENTORY.

1. Choose Your Equipment: Finding the Right Mind Set.

2. Keys to the Toolkit: Unlocking Your Personal Power

3. Manage Your Time and Money: Making the Most of Key Resources

4. Sharpen Your Tools: Your Basic Skills

PART II. GETTING STARTED.

5. Explore the Job Market: Finding a Fit

6. Tools that Create Opportunities: Getting the Hang of Networking

PART III. MOVING ON.

7. Put Your Tools to Good Use: Building Your Personal Brand

8. Select Your Tools for the Interview: Winning Strategies to Seal the Deal

9. Today's World: Diversity in the Workplace

10. Stay Ahead of the Curve: Getting the Job Done With Communication

11. Pack Up Your Toolbox: Standing Out on the Job

Carol Carter was a C student in high school. During her senior year, she got a wake-up call when her brother told her that she had intelligence, but she wouldn’t go far in life unless she believed in herself enough to work hard. She began college knowing she was “behind the eight ball” in terms of her skills. What she lacked in experience, she made up for with elbow grease and persistence. She maximized her strength as an interpersonal and intrapersonal learner. The work paid off and she graduated college with honors and a desire to help other students.

Carol is committed to helping students of all ages turn on their brains, get motivated, and discover their abilities. As President of her own company, LifeBound, she teaches study, interpersonal, and career skills to middle school,  high school students and college students to help them become competitive in today’s global world. She trains and certifies coaches in academic coaching skills, and focuses on at-risk students with her volunteer teaching at the federal prison and her LifeBound work in the Denver housing projects. “All students are at-risk for something, whether it is academic, emotional, social, or economic,” says Carol. “If each of us is allowed to be human and accept our flaws, we can overcome our limitations and be the best for ourselves and others.” 

Carol also speaks on educational topics nationally and internationally, and is pictured here with some students at the Aziza Schoolhouse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.  Her first book, Majoring in the Rest of Your Life, launched her writing career and opened the door to her work on the Keys to Success series and The Career Toolkit.

Gary Izumo is an educator and consultant for the University of California, Davis — The Center for Human Services, where he has been honored for excellence in teaching and outstanding service.  Gary conducts worksh

Expanded weaving of technology throughout–Particularly in the Learning from Experience, Technology at Work, and Your Tool Kit at Work features. Shows students the ever-increasing importance of technology in today's workplace.

Workplacemythsversusrealities–In every chapter. Ensures that students have an accurate sense of the modern workplace.

Additional topics include–In-person and online networking skills, workplace communicationwith bosses, co-workers, clients, and customers, qualities and skills that employers look for in their employees, rights on the job, critical thinking at work (decision making and problem solving), improving and maintaining your mental health and social intelligence, and motivation, patience, listening, etc. Students are given practical advice that they can use throughout their careers.

School to work focus sharpened. Addresses both vocational and community college students by balancing the existing examples and profiles with some success stories, interests, and experiences of older or re-entry individuals as well as younger community college students.