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LAUNCH
YOUR CAREER IN COLLEGE: Strategies for Students, Educators, and Parents
Only a fraction of students actually know how to
use college as a stepping-stone for educational exploration and
social connection. Most students are keenly disappointed when the
expected transformation from college to career does not automatically
happen. They do not know that they have to make it happen through
their own engagement. Packed with practical and accessible advice,
Scheele's approach provides critical strategies to the burgeoning
number of students--whether they are children of advantaged parents
or children of immigrants, high school students anticipating their
college career, or adult women re-entering college after years of
working or childrearing. All students are seeking the American Dream,
hoping that the secret to success will be included with their diplomas.
Launch Your Career in College provides a guide to maximizing the
return on their educational investment.
Offering practical and accessible advice for college
students, Launch Your Career in College offers a guide to maximizing
the return on students' and their parents' financial and educational
investments. College is an experiment in hope. It is an expensive
investment of time--often more than four years--and of money--anywhere
from $4000 to $40,000 per year. Yet the biggest investment, by far,
is that of hope--hope that by simply attending college students
will be able to turn their majors into successful careers and rewarding
lives. Students and their parents expect that college will be the
single transforming agent to make them acceptable, valuable, knowledgeable,
professional, and employable. Seldom is this expectation voiced,
but it is there, deeply embedded in our views about higher education.
It is not just hoped for. It is believed to be true. This books
can help students, educators, and parents make that hope a reality.
“This is a true story. I found a manuscript on my desk, with
no one's name on it, so I started to read it--in the middle. I found
so many really neat ideas in it, that I started to jot some down,
for my personal files. This book has got some of the wisest counsel
for college liberal arts students, about what to do with their training
and degree, that I have ever read. Only belatedly did I discover
the manuscript was a new book by an old friend of mine, Adele Scheele--one
of the smartest, most caring career counselors I have ever met.”
- Dick Bolles, author,What Color is Your Parachute?
“Adele Scheele's book is an excellent and easy-to-read resource
for college students (and their parents) on how to get the most
out of their college experiece. As a veteran university career center
director, Scheele provides straightforward and practical advice
on how students can take charge of their education, make the right
connections on campus with professors and peers, and then turn that
learning into the right career path. Her book is a useful guide
to the college experience.”
- Jolene Koester, President of California
State University, Northridge
“Dr.
Scheele's book not only demonstrates how students can maximize their
educational experience but it also shows how these same strategies
will lead them to success in their careers....A must read for college
students.”
–
James E. Stofan, Executive Director Alumni Affairs & Protocol
University of California
“[This
book] belongs on every college student's bookshelf. It's full of
practical advice about transitioning from high school to college,
getting the most out of one's college experience, and launching
a first career.”
–
Alan Glazer, Ph.D., Stager Professor of Business
Chair, Department of Business, Organizations, and Society
Franklin & Marshall College
Available in
bookstores on October 30, 2005 |
