If you're a college/university career services professional,
you might be asking yourself a simple but essential question:
"How will Career Wisdom for College Students
actually help my students? What makes it worth tapping our already
limited budget for new books?"
In other words: "Why should
our career center buy your book?"
Simple.
Career Wisdom Author Peter
Vogt Knows College Students—and Your Essential
Work as a Career Services Professional. Career
Wisdom author Peter Vogt is publisher of the renowned national
newsletter Campus
Career Counselor, which has subscribing campus career
centers at more than 400 colleges and universities across the
United States and Canada. Peter is also The MonsterTRAK Career
Coach for MonsterTRAK,
the college student/recent graduate community of leading global
career web site Monster.
Peter has counseled and written about college students and careers
for more than a decade. Career Wisdom is the result
of that ongoing research and experience!
Career Wisdom Helps
ALL of Your Students—Freshmen Through Seniors—Not
Just Soon-to-Be Graduates. Other career books aimed at
college students focus primarily on seniors and recent graduates
and the job search, leaving your freshmen, sophomores, and juniors
(who need just as much help, if not more!) out of luck. Career
Wisdom for College Students covers all four years of college,
freshman through senior, so that all of your
students gain the knowledge and confidence they need to succeed
after graduation.
Career WisdomDoesn't
Gather Dust on Your Career Center Library's Shelf. Is
there anything more frustrating than feeling like you've thrown
your career center's money away—on, for example, a book
your students never bother picking up, let alone reading? Career
Wisdom's brief pieces and jump-in-anywhere-you-want-to format
(think Don't Sweat the Small Stuff or Chicken Soup
for the Soul) ensure that your busy, sometimes impatient
students actually read the book ... and thus benefit from it!
Career Wisdom for College Students also
serves as an excellent supplemental textbook for the career development
courses you teach—especially if you want to get your students
really thinking critically (beyond the nuts and
bolts) about key career development activities like self-assessment;
career exploration (and major exploration); internships, co-ops,
and other experiential learning activities; and the post-graduation
job search.
