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Career Advising: An Academic Advisor's Guide

Career Advising:

An Academic Advisor's Guide
by Virginia N. Gordon

Pages:  160

Order Number:  P08

NACADA Member Price:  $30

Nonmember Price:  $35

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Career Advising:   An Academic Advisor's Guide is especially for academic advisors who work with students trying to make career decisions. Career Advising will be an invaluable guide as you help students understand the relationships between their academic and career choices and the impact these decisions have on their future personal and work lives.

 

ISBN No. 0-7879-8367-5

Published: 2006


Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1:  Integrating academic and career advising

(Topics - Historical paths, Who needs career advising?,Career advising principles, Career counseling and career advising,Career services cooperation, Setting career advising goals, Identifying and assessing outcomes

Chapter 2:  Career Advisor Competencies

(Topics - Theoretical competence, Decision-making competence, Communication competence, Referral competence, Teaching competence, Assessment competence, Evaluation competence, Research competence, Advisor training programs)

Chapter 3:  A Career Advising Framework: The 3-I Process

(Topics - The 3-I Process, INQUIRE, Career concerns, Students with special needs, Communicating, Advisor questions)

Chapter 4:  3-I Process: INFORM

(Topics - Acknowledging the major-career connection, Exploring self-information, Student concerns/advisor responses, Educational information, Occupational information, Sources for collecting occupational information, Evaluating information)

Chapter 5:  3-I Process: INTEGRATE

(Topics - Career information organizing systems, Decision-making influences, Personal influences, Career resources for advising offices, 3-I Process)

Chapter 6:  Career Advising Methods

(Topics - Group career advising, Career courses, Computerized career-guidance programs, Internet resources, Career assessment, Advisor's role)

Chapter 7:  Future Challenges

(Topics - Workplace trends, Higher education trends, Implications for students, Implications for advisors)

 


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