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ISBN:
9780323311298
Copyright:
2016
Publication Date:
08-06-2015
Page Count:
366
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$55.99
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Career Development for Health Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition
by Lee Haroun, MA, MBA
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
![cover image - Career Development for Health Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,4th Edition](https://covers.elsevier.com/200fw/9780323311298.jpg)
ISBN:
9780323311298
Copyright:
2016
Publication Date:
08-06-2015
Page Count:
366
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$55.99
![VitalSource](images/vitalsource-brand-icon.png)
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Filled with tips and strategies for classroom and career success, Career Development for Health Professionals, 4th Edition provides students with the skills needed to achieve four important goals: 1) successfully complete their educational programs, 2) think like health care professionals, 3) find the right jobs, and 4) attain long-term career success. This edition includes a new chapter on professionalism and online activities allowing students to apply what they’ve learned. Ideal for self-paced and independent study, this practical resource helps students grow into competent, caring, well-rounded employees.
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- NEW Becoming a Professional chapter defines professionalism as it relates to health care occupations, emphasizes its importance, and presents examples of professionals in action.
- Self-paced format with interactive exercises, stop-and-think review, and end-of-chapter quizzes allows students to work through the text independently.
- Conversational, easy-to-read style helps students understand and relate to the material by delivering information in small, easily absorbed chunks.
- NEW! Full-color photos and illustrations make the book much more visually appealing to today’s students.
- NEW case studies give students a real-life look into school, job-search, and on-the-job situations.
- NEW study and job-search strategies explain how to study for classes, job applications, resumes and resume trends, guidelines to preparing different types of resumes (print, scannable, plain text, and e-mail versions), protecting against job scams, online job searching, and preparing for the job interview.
- UPDATED on-the-job strategies and Success Tips focus on professional certification exams, the use of social media, general job requirements, online classroom learning, employment laws, and necessary skills and National Health Care Skill Standards.
- Chapter objectives and key terms at the beginning of each chapter preview the material to be learned while reading the chapter.
- Prescriptions for Success and Resume Building Blocks emphasize the importance of a resume and how it is a ‘work in progress’ from the first day of a student’s education.
- Prescription for Success exercises ask students to apply what they have learned to on-the-job situations.
- NEW reference chart on the inside front cover provides an outline to the book’s content, making it easy for students to find the information they need.
- Useful Spanish Phrases appendix provides a quick reference for translations that will prove valuable in today’s workplace.
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- NEW Becoming a Professional chapter defines professionalism as it relates to health care occupations, emphasizes its importance, and presents examples of professionals in action.
- NEW! Full-color photos and illustrations bring concepts and health care skills to life.
- NEW case studies offer a real-life look into school, job-search, and on-the-job situations.
- NEW study and job-search strategies explain how to study for classes, job applications, resumes and resume trends, guidelines to preparing different types of resumes (print, scannable, plain text, and e-mail versions), protecting against job scams, online job searching, and preparing for the job interview.
- NEW reference chart on the inside front cover provides an outline to the book’s content, making it easy to find the information you need.
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1. Your Career Starts Now
2. Your Resume Starts Now
3. Developing Your Personal Skills
4. Strategies for Adult Students
5. Strategies for English-as-a-Second Language Students
6. Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities
7. Developing Your Paper Skills I: Intake of Information
8. Developing Your Paper Skills II: Output of Information
9. Developing Your Practical Skills
10. Developing Your People Skills
11. Becoming a Professional NEW!
12. Beginning the Job Search
13. Finalizing Your Employment Presentation Materials
14. The Interview
15. After the Interview
16. Success on the Job
17. Navigating Your Career
Appendix A: Professional Organizations for Health Care Occupations
Appendix B: Useful Spanish Phrases
Index
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