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Help ALL teenagers to define realistic goals, develop career direction, and find their future! This revised edition of the bestseller offers educators a six-step plan for helping all students and their parents develop alternative plans for post high school success that may or may not involve a college degree. Getting Real compares the disparity between students' preconceived beliefs and aspirations and the new economic and labor markets they will face as adults, and calls on educators to improve the odds for every young person. Emphasizing the importance of exploring all options, the updated second edition covers critical topics such as: occupational race and gender stereotypesupdated labor market projections that highlight technician-level careers and new middle level skill occupationsthe strong link between academic maturity, career direction, and postsecondary success the unique career development needs of potential dropouts and of high school graduates who go to work.
Contents
Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author1. Getting Real: New Realities for Postsecondary SuccessA New Goal: Postsecondary SuccessCareer Direction and the "Fourth" RCareer Maturity and Career DirectionCareer Exploration Activities and Career MaturityCareer Development Programs: Are They Effective?Society's Ambivalence About Career ChoiceThe Role of Public SchoolsMaking the Case for Career Development ProgramsPromoting SuccessPart I. Understanding Those We Try to Help "Get Real"2. Today's Teens and Their ParentsToday's TeensToday's ParentsPromoting Success3. Dropouts, Teens With Disabilities, and Graduates Seeking Full Time EmploymentGetting Real and High School DropoutsGetting Real and Special PopulationsHigh School Graduates Who Seek Full Time EmploymentPromoting Success4. Creating Opportunities by Countering StereotypesOccupational StereotypesGender Stereotypes and Earnings: Education or Occupation?Occupational Stereotyping: Minorities and the Economically DisadvantagedPromoting SuccessPart II. Understanding Labor Market Fundamentals5. Labor Market Misunderstandings and Bad AdviceMisunderstanding 1: A University Degree Guarantees Access to High WagesMisunderstanding 2: A University Degree Guarantees Access to Professional CareersMisunderstanding 3: High Tech Careers Require a University DegreeMisunderstanding 4: Career Planning Is Worthless Because People Change Jobs All the Time AnywayMisunderstanding 5: University Graduates Will Take All the Good JobsLabor Market Advantage: The Secret to Getting High-Skill / High-Wage EmploymentBad Advice Given to TeensWill Tentative Career Decisions Close the Door to Future Opportunity?Promoting Success6. Occupational Projections, Technical and Middle Skill EmploymentI: Using Labor Market InformationII: Occupational ProjectionsIII: The Other Way to Win: Technical and Middle-Skill OccupationsA Selective List of Technical and Middle Skilled Occupations: This Is Rocket SciencePromoting SuccessPart III. Strategies to Promote Career Direction7. Career Success, Decision Making, and TeensThe Path to Career Success?Characteristics of a Career Mature TeenagerCareer Decision Making Anxiety of TeensReducing Teen Anxiety Over Making Career DecisionsPromoting Success8. Strategies to Promote Adolescent Career Maturity and DirectionStudent Outcome Goals for Career Development ProgramOutcome Goal 1: Promoting a Tentative Career Direction While in the 10th GradeOutcome Goal 2: Verifying Tentative Career DirectionsOutcome Goal 3: Develop a Postsecondary PlanProviding Career CounselingPromoting Success9. Considering "All" the AlternativesTraditional Formal Education AlternativesAlternatives to CollegeThe "Bridge" or "Prep" YearPromoting Success10. Six-Step Plan for Postsecondary SuccessTalking to ParentsParents and Career ChoiceSix-Step Plan for Postsecondary SuccessHelping Parents With Difficult ChoicesPromoting Success11. Getting Real and the Role of the Business CommunityCommunity OrganizationsPromoting Success12. How Are Teenagers Best Served, Nutritional Lies or Reality?Nutritional LiesCreating OpportunityFive Premises for SuccessWell-Intended but Bad Advice Given to TeensUnderstanding Our RoleFighting the Good FightReferencesIndex
