Career Countdown: Your Future Starts Now

Career Countdown: Your Future Starts Now is an insightful guide to professional success, detailing the knowledge and skills needed to develop professionally and further one’s career. Organized into four modules, the book provides useful lessons on Learning Skills, Managing Personal Finance, Professional and Career Skills, and Writing Skills. Each section includes thought provoking discussion questions and exercises. Career Countdown provides a foundation towards improving how you learn, bettering how you manage money, increasing your value to employers, and furthering your writing abilities.

Table of Contents

Module 1: Learning Skills

• Interpersonal Communication Skills
• How to Read a Textbook
• Effective Note-taking
• Academic Skills
• Learn How to Learn

Module 2: Managing Personal Finances

• A Business Approach to Personal Finance
• Rules of the Game: Credit, Debt, FICO
• Financial Crisis Management
• Being a Smart Consumer

Module 3: Professional and Career Skills

• Career Services
• Career Connections: Volunteering
• Career Connections: Networking
• Personal Makeovers
• Counting Your Minutes - Five Tips for Time Management
• Customer Service

Module 4: Writing Skills

• Written Words for College and Career
• Pre-Writing Right
• The Writing Process
• Using Communication Tools Effectively
• Common Student Writing Issues
• Delivering Effective Oral Presentations

Product Information

Educators

This title offers the following ancillaries:

• Interactive eLessons
• Discussion Questions and Exercises
  
• Bundled Course Packs

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