Taking Charge: Your Education, Your Career, Your Life

$49.95
ISBN 978-1-934302-30-9
1st edition
May 2008

Your Guide to Successful Personal, Education, and Career Development

Typically, college success textbooks focus on traditional higher education academic skills: note taking, test strategies, and research. In response to the increasing trend, especially at two-year college, of students entering the workforce upon graduation, Taking Charge directly contextualizes these academic skills with the soft skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. In addition, all the subject areas covered in the book are related to personal growth , so that students may see that these skills are not used in isolation but are, rather, an integral part of the ongoing development everyone experiences in their lives.

Features in Taking Charge: Your Education, Your Career, Your Life include:

  •  Personal, educational and career applications relating to each chapter’s subject
  •  Chapters focusing on goal setting, time management, financial planning, critical thinking,       research, written and interpersonal communications, the diverse and non-hostile work environment, and much mor
  • Success stories at the end of chapter profiling students, graduates, faculty and staff from around the country
  • Additional suggested resources, as well as individual and group exercises designed to increase student comprehension and internalization of concepts presented

Karen Mitchell Smith is a graduate of Texas Tech University and has been an English and Spanish instructor, motivational speaker on the importance of post-secondary education, and technical college recruiter. An award-winning creative writer and editor for more than 20 years, she writes on many education-related topics.

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