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Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (15th Edition)
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Fabulous resource, more than 4,100 pages in 5 volumes! One of the most useful and widely used career directories in the field.
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Detailed Description
This classic, an ideal starting place for conducting career research, is an essential resource for public, college, high school, and junior high school libraries; career centers; guidance offices; and other agencies that are involved with career exploration.
Each article in this edition offers expanded career information, sidebars, and other user-friendly features. Called out by graphic icons are the top 10 fastest-growing careers and the top 10 careers that experts predict will add the greatest number of positions through the year 2018.
More than 2,500 websites are listed in the career articles and refer users to professional associations, government agencies, and other organizations. More than 100 on-the-job interviews, ranging from worker profiles to daily routines to workers' comments about their occupation, are also included in major career articles.
Designed to hold students' attention and relay information effectively, this 5-volume set (more than 4,100 pages!) is the ideal starting place for career research.
This edition features:
- Comprehensive overviews of 94 industries
- More than 750 up-to-date job articles
- More than 35 new career articles
- The latest information on salaries and employment trends
- On-the-job interviews with professionals
- More than 800 sidebars, providing additional reading on industry issues and history, useful websites, industry jargon, and much more
- Approximately 500 photographs of people at work, with more than 100 new to this edition
- Career articles keyed to four different government classification systems
- More than 2,500 websites listed for further information
- Career Guidance section in Volume 1, providing information on interviewing, job hunting, networking, writing resumes, and more
- A comprehensive job title index in each volume, plus additional indexes in Volume 1
- New information on using social networking sites for job-hunting, electronic resumes, and more
For grades 9 and up. Black-and-white photographs. Indexes. Appendixes. 4,128 pages in 5 volumes. 8.5 x 11. November 2010.
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