Career Development or Economic Sociology

Career Development: Life and Career Strategies and Technologies

Author: Monica E Breidenbach

In today's fast-paced, ever changing economy, knowledge of current technologies and their impact on the job search is more crucial than ever. Not only must job seekers be focused in their search, but they must also be able to adapt new methods of exploration and communication. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, job searchers must be visible in the marketplace in order to locate those jobs that afford them the best opportunities and are best suited to their interests. Then, they must have the most competitive tools to land the desired jobs. In Career Development: Strategies and Technologies for Career and Life Balance, Fourth Edition, Dr. Breidenbach has revised and expanded the job search process to include information that will ultimately help every job seeker achieve success in their career and life pursuits:

• CD-ROM Business Cards
• Interactive Interviewing
• Negotiations
• Enrepreneurship
• Politics
• Money and Taxes
• 401(k) and 403(b) Options
• Investments
• Retirement Planning

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Reality—City on the Hill.

I. RÉSUMÉS.

1. Résumé Information Research.
2. Résumé Formulae.
3. Cyberspace Résumés.

II. INTERVIEWS DEFINED.

4. Interviews.
5. Job Interviews.
6. Negotiation.

III. MARKETING.

7. Marketing Process.
8. Market Potential.
9. Entrepreneurship.
10. Business Politics.

IV. FINANCIAL LITERACY.

11. Money and Taxes.
12. 401(k)s and Other Investment Options.
13. Education as Investment.
14. Retirement.

APPENDICES.

A. Entrepreneur's Quiz.
B. Personality Inventory.
C. Letters.
D. Market Value.
E. Procrastination.
F. Glossary.
G. Résumé Skill Words Lists
Sample Résumé.
H. Budget.
I. You and the Law.

Interesting textbook: The Lexus and the Olive Tree or Fatal Purity

Economic Sociology: State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism

Author: Carlo Trigilia

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, the volume identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move from economics to economic sociology.

• Most comprehensive and up-to-date overview available by an internationally renowned, award-winning economic sociologist

• Systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology

• Organizes the perspectives and methods of economic sociologists of the classical and contemporary eras, including coverage of modernization, globalization, and the welfare state

• Provides insights into the social consequences of capitalism in the past and present for students of economic sociology.