Now there is a text especially designed for career exploration classes in family and consumer sciences. Other classes that will find this text well suited are HERO classes, cooperative education classes, and school-to-work programs at the high school level. This text will help you introduce students to the many career opportunities available in this field. The first three parts of the text are designed to help students choose careers, find jobs, and achieve success on the job. The last part of... Read full description

Now there is a text especially designed for career exploration classes in family and consumer sciences. Other classes that will find this text well suited are HERO classes, cooperative education classes, and school-to-work programs at the high school level. This text will help you introduce students to the many career opportunities available in this field. The first three parts of the text are designed to help students choose careers, find jobs, and achieve success on the job. The last part of the book explores the many career areas related to family and consumer sciences.

Features Include:

• Provides discussion of the 16 skills that employers say re basic to success in the workplace.
• Includes information on work and family and a chapter in entrepreneurship.
• Highlights career profiles of successful professionals in various family and consumer science occupations, detailing the day-to-day responsibilities of their work.
• The careers are organized into five broad job fields: business, education and communication, human services, science and technology, and the arts. Within each, the more specific areas of career interest are explored, such as foods and nutrition, clothing, housing, child care, etc.
• Chapters include Objectives, New Terms, summary Review Questions and suggested Activities.

Partial Contents Include:

• Deciding What is Right for You
• Learning and Deciding about Careers
• Preparing for a Career in Family and Consumer Sciences
• Basic Skills for the Workplace
• Communication Skills
• Understanding Personal Management skills
• Group Effectiveness and Leadership Skills
• The Job Search
• Job Interviews
• Job Orientation
• Job Performance
• Job Evaluation and Change
• Careers in Business
• Careers in Education and Communications
• Careers in Human Services
• Careers in Science and Technology
• Careers in the Arts
• A Career as an Entrepreneur.

STUDENT ACTIVITY GUIDE
This 152 page guide contains a variety of activities to reinforce the text material.

TEACHER'S RESOURCE GUIDE
Provides many aids for the teacher, including bulletin board ideas, introductory activities, suggested learning experiences, reproducible masters, chapter test masters, and a complete answer key.

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