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Career Achievement: Growing Your Goals, 3rd Edition
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Instructor and Life Coach Kari Blackett's Career Achievement: Growing Your Goals teaches students how to personally and professionally achieve their goals. Whether searching for a first job, planning a career change, or unexpectedly searching for employment, Career Achievement provides valuable information to land the perfect job and advance a desired career path. This comprehensive text couples the most tried-and-true steps to achieving career goals with new principles and tools that are absent in other career development books. Career Achievement is a powerful combination of both proven and new career assessment, marketing, communication, and management tools.
Chapter 1: Jump-Start Your Career
Chapter 2: Skills and Interests—Your Career Assets
Chapter :3 Where Are the Jobs? Maximize Your Career Options
PART II: Marketing Tools: Promoting Your Skills
Chapter 4: Networking—It’s Always Who You Know
Chapter 5: Professional Resumes the Easy Way
Chapter 5A: Winning Resumes: Real Student Examples for Resumes and References
Chapter 6: Professional Cover Letters and Applications
PART III: Moving Forward: Interview, Follow-Up, and Managing Change
Chapter 7: Successful Interviews
Chapter 8: Follow-Up and Negotiation
Chapter 9: Step Up Your Career
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About the Author
Karine Blackett
Dr. Karine B. Blackett is a certified life coach whose professional credentials span more than 20 years of student success and career management experience. Dr. Blackett studied at the University of Malta and worked in Kenya, Africa, through her undergraduate degree with the University of Minnesota. She holds an English Language Teaching Certificate from
New School University in New York and taught English as a second language in Southern Japan. Dr. Blackett received her master’s degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Colorado State University. She received her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Dakota.
Dr. Blackett has taught for several institutions, including doctoral online courses for Walden University and Aspen University, master’s online courses for Kaplan University, and undergraduate online courses for Virginia College
Online, National American University, and the American Public University System. In addition to teaching, Dr. Blackett is a course instructional designer and consultant for several institutions. In the past, she has served as the career services manager for National American University. She is a published author and contributor in the college success and career management fields and is an accomplished public speaker.
Dr. Blackett is a Master Facilitator with The Pacific Institute, an advisor to Jim Madrid and Advanced Sports Technology (http://jimmadrid.com/ast), and consults with many colleges and universities worldwide. Dr. Blackett was also a consultant with Coach Pete Carroll’s “A Better LA” anti-gang program (http://www.abetterla.org).
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