Career Planning or Toward a New International Financial Architecture

Career Planning: A Developmental Approach

Author: John Barker

This book's aim is to help readers understand how to choose, plan, and prepare for a career and how to find and land a job in that career. The book guides readers through (1) self-assessment and career choice, (2) development of employability and job readiness, and (3) the job search (e.g., resume writing, interviewing, etc.). Rather than merely reading about career planning, readers actively undergo an individualized career guidance program as they work through the book. Appropriate for anyone interested in career counseling, job search, and career development.

Table of Contents:

(Note: Each chapter begins with an Introduction and ends with Exercises and Discussion Questions.)
1. Introduction to Career Planning.
Model of Career Development.

2. Demographics and Workplace Trends: A Legacy of Change.
Changes in Work and Workers. Labor Force Growth. Shortage of Workers. Workplace Skills. Education and Employment. Future Occupational Demand. Women's Issues. Minority Issues. Summary.

3. Self-Assessment.
The Need for Self-Assessment in Career Planning. Interests. Abilities. Values. Traits. Computers as an Assessment Tool. Summary.

4. Career Information.
Sources of Career Information. Summary.

5. Career Decision Making and Goal Setting.
Influences on Career Decision Making. The Decision-Making Process. Evaluative Criteria in Decision Making. Integrated Careers. Impediments to the Career Choice Process. Goal Setting. Summary.

6. Functional Qualities.
Introduction to Stage 2: Employability and Job Readiness. Functional Qualities. Where to Begin the Process of Developing Employability. Summary.

7. Resume Writing.
Characteristics of a Well-Developed Resume. Resume Formats. Summary.

8. Employment Correspondence.
Cover Letter.Requirements/Credentials Comparison. Letter of Inquiry. Thank You Letter. Summary.

9. Interviewing.
The Interview. Interview Preparation. The Face-to-Face Interview. Employer's Decision Factors. Evaluating Job Offers. Summary.

10. Developing Job Search Strategies.
Job Search Strategies. Summary.

11. Maintaining Productivity and Employability.
Job Success Factors. Developing a Success Mentality. Fourteen Ways to Nurture Your Career. Continual Evaluation: Key to Career Success and Satisfaction. Keeping a Balance. Summary.

References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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Toward a New International Financial Architecture: A Practical Post-Asia Agenda

Author: Barry Eichengreen

The Asian financial crisis and the global economic turmoil that followed it have highlighted the need to avert financial crises and resolve them quickly if they do occur. With that need in mind, this book provides a practical guide to reforming the international financial architecture. In contrast to ambitious schemes of dubious practicability that may appear elsewhere, it suggests a number of limited reforms that could realistically be implemented in the short and medium run. The recommendations are based on the belief that financial markets can malfunction, creating a compelling case for a financial safety net (and therefore a role for the IMF), but also creating problems of moral hazard that must be addressed.

Economist

It offers a concise analysis of the main problems ailing today's international financial system and a host of modest, but useful, suggestions for reform.

National Journal - Clive Crook

The details of the straightforward approach (to reforming the international financial architecture) are laid out with admirable clarity...

Booknews

Addresses current concerns that existing institutional arrangements, including Bretton Woods institutions, can no longer adequately cope with today's world of high capital mobility. Provides a critical assessment of competing proposals to better predict, forestall, and resolve international financial crises, and outlines a practical and pragmatic agenda for reform. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

What People Are Saying

Jeffrey A. Frankel
The definitive outside source on the G7/G22 initiatives, including a rapid-response evaluation of them and further proposals.
— (Jeffrey A. Frankel, Council of Economics Advisers)

John Lipsky
The book is excellent, thorough, sensible, well-written, with a point of view...(It) will become a standard reference in the subject.
— (John Lipsky, Chief Economist and Managing Director, Chase Manhattan Bank)