Best Careers For Future College Grads - April 2024

Careers: The Graphic Guide to Planning Your Future

"This is the prettiest, most well-organized, useful and up to date guide to careers that I have ever seen." — Dick Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?It's never too early for your teen or tween to start thinking about a career, and Careers is the perfect way to do it. Inspiring and imaginative as well as practical, Careers has charts and tables that help middle- and high-schoolers gauge interest about possible careers — it's like having a personal college and career advisor by their side whenever they need it!Covering more than 400 jobs in fields that range from STEM to sports,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1465429735
• UPC: 790778029739
• ASIN: 1465429735
• ISBN: 1465429735
• Brand: DK Publishing Dorling Kindersley
• Manufacturer: DK Children

College Grad Seeks Future: Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect Career

In the coming year, college graduates will have a more difficult time than ever entering the job market. Opportunities in traditional fields are shrinking as the competition increases exponentially. Despite this glaring truth, far too many post-collegians automatically consider the most visible, traditional careers - usually out of confusion, uncertainty, and peer and parental pressures. Fields like law, medicine, and banking (just to name a few) are often overpopulated, and thus extremely competitive for entry level positions.  In College Grad Seeks Future, Howard and Matthew Greene will... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312315422
• ASIN: 0312315422
• ISBN: 0312315422
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World

Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455570249
• ASIN: 1455570249
• ISBN: 1455570249
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens, Third Edition: Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job

This updated career guide for teens draws on the principles of What Color Is Your Parachute? to help high school and college students zero in on their favorite skills and find their perfect major or career.No idea what you want to be? No worries! This fun, rewarding guide draws on the time-tested principles of the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? to help you discover your passions, skills, and potential college majors and dream jobs.  Why now? Because when you identify your interests and passions early, you can make informed decisions on what additional schooling (and tuition debt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1607745771
• ASIN: 1607745771
• ISBN: 1607745771
• Brand: Ten Speed Press
• Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive

Kevin Horsley Broke a World Memory Record in 2013...And You're About to Learn How to Use His Memory Strategies to Learn Faster, Be More Productive and Achieve More SuccessWith over 200,000 copies sold, Unlimited Memory is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and has been the #1 memory book on Amazon for more than two years. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages including French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian.Most people never tap into 10% of their potential for memory.In this book, you're about to learn:How the World's Top Memory Experts Concentrate and Rem... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
• ASIN: B00I3QS1XQ
• Manufacturer: TCK Publishing

The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507433X
• ASIN: 032507433X
• ISBN: 9780325074337
• Brand: Heinemann
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

After High School: A guide that includes a self-scoring interest suvey, an informal assessment of abilities, and an informal assessment of values to help students plan their future after high school.

After High School is a best-selling self-directed guide for high school students to help them plan their future. The book contains a self-scoring Interest Survey, a self-scoring assessment of abilities, and a self-scoring assessment of values. After High School helps students to identify their strengths and then shows them how to best match these to occupational categories and also specific careers. The book also contains an up-to-date occupational list of more than 450 careers. In addition, information is provided to help students set their future goals and better understand some of the fact... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1460906292
• ASIN: 1460906292
• ISBN: 1460906292
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. In Where You Go is Not Who Yo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455532681
• ASIN: 1455532681
• ISBN: 1455532681
• Brand: Frank Bruni
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emerging adulthood. Dr. Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that twentysomethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood.Drawing from a decade of work with hundreds of twentysomething clients and students, THE DEFINING DECADE weaves the latest science of the twentysomething years with behind-closed-doors stories from twentysomethings themselve... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0446561754
• ASIN: 0446561754
• ISBN: 0446561754
• Brand: Meg Jay
• Manufacturer: Twelve

Discover Your Best Possible Future/a Step-By-Step Guide to Choosing a College, a Major, a Career

• ASIN: 0310544912
• ASIN: 0310544912
• ISBN: 0310544912
• Manufacturer: Zondervan

The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D.  into their ideal job   Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration.   Those who do make it share an important asset th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553419420
• UPC: 884853481564
• ASIN: 0553419420
• ISBN: 0553419420
• Brand: Kelsky Karen
• Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press

Mastering Essential Math Skills: 20 Minutes a Day to Success, Book 2: Middle Grades/High School

For the best possible experience as a buyer, we suggest that you use the Ships From and Sold by Amazon.com option. This book Includes free online video tutorials. One for each lesson! THIS BOOK IS NOW Ava ILABLE IN A SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION. Perfect for English language learners. ASIN # 1733501851. CHECK OUT THE NEW AND IMPROVED 3RD EDITION OF THIS BOOK. IT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY EDITED. IT NOW CONTAINS A HANDY RESOURCE CENTER AND GLOSSARY. ISBN# 978-0999443385Use by tens of thousands of students.Perfect Math For Students Who Are Math Challenged.Includes award-winning online video tutorials. One... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0966621123
• ASIN: 0966621123
• ISBN: 0966621123
• Brand: Richard W Fisher
• Manufacturer: Math Essentials

LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward

You'd love to get your kids through college debt-free—but your kids aren't getting any scholarships, you haven't saved for college, and you make too much to get government financial aid. Is there still hope? Yes, but you’ll need someone to guide you. In LAUNCH, academic strategist Jeannie Burlowski lays out clear, step-by-step strategies that empower parents to get their kids through high quality, best-fit colleges debt-free—and then directly into jobs they love afterward. Experts rave about LAUNCH:“The checklists at the end of each chapter in this book are fabulous. They’re golden. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0998488607
• ASIN: 0998488607
• ISBN: 0998488607
• Manufacturer: Falcon Heights Publishing LLC

How Not to Be a Dick: An Everyday Etiquette Guide

On the one hand, nobody wants to be a dick. On the other hand, dicks are everywhere! They cut in line, talk behind our backs, recline into our seats, and even have the power to morph into trolls online. Their powers are impressive, but with a little foresight and thoughtfulness, we can take a stand against dickishness today. How Not to Be a Dick is packed with honest and straightforward advice, but it also includes playful illustrations showing two well-meaning (but not always well behaved) young people as they confront moments of potential dickishness in their everyday lives. Sometimes they f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1936976021
• ASIN: 1936976021
• ISBN: 1936976021
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Zest Books TM

Stuff Every Graduate Should Know: A Handbook for the Real World (Stuff You Should Know)

The New York Times best seller makes the perfect graduation gift for young adults in the real world!   This ultimate pocket-sized guide for life after school is filled with information for every step of the road to adulthood. Just because you’ve got a diploma in hand doesn’t mean you know everything—especially if it’s doing laundry, cleaning your house, or acing an interview. Topics include:   ·      How to Find Your First Apartment ·      How to Write the Perfect Résumé ·      How to Survive Living with Your Parents ·      How to Make (and Stick to!) a Bu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594748608
• ASIN: 1594748608
• ISBN: 1594748608
• Brand: Quirk
• Manufacturer: Quirk Books

College Grad Seeks Future : Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect Career

College Grad Seeks Future: Turning Your Talents, Strengths, and Passions into the Perfect

• UPC: 11000943

College Grad Seeks Future - eBook

In the coming year, college graduates will have a more difficult time than ever entering the job market. Opportunities in traditional fields are shrinking as the competition increases exponentially. Despite this glaring truth, far too

• UPC: 775777326