Careers, by DK
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It's never too early for your teen or tween to start thinking about a career, and Careers is the perfect way to do it. Inspiring and imaginative as well as practical, Careers has charts and tables that help young people gauge interest about possible careers — it's like having a personal career advisor by your side whenever you need it!
Speech pathologist? Check. Zookeeper? Check. Jewelry designer? Check.
Nurse? Architect? Chef? Check, check, and check.
Covering more than 400 jobs, Careers is organized in an easy-to-navigate, clear structure that helps guide teen and tween readers. Check at-a-glance summary panels for chosen careers to learn about salary, working hours, training, and career paths. Cross-referenced job matrix tables offer another way to learn about all the options. Tweens and teens with no idea of what kind of job to look for can start with their favorite school subjects or hobbies and find relevant careers from there. It may not be time for your teen or tween to prepare a resume and find a job, but the advice in Careers can help young people start thinking about the future!
Careers, by DK - Amazon Sales Rank: #30534 in Books
- Brand: Dorling Kindersley, Inc. (COR)
- Published on: 2015-03-03
- Released on: 2015-03-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.19" h x .88" w x 7.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Careers, by DK From School Library Journal Gr 6 Up—A typical library's collection of career books can quickly become dated or out of touch. Enter this manual. With simple graphics, bright colors, and a vast compendium of information, this guide will engage teens who are wondering, "What now?" Each page contains a job description, information on related careers and salaries, and a skills guide. The book explains precisely how to go from dipping a toe into the waters of a particular job to the highest positions within the field. The index is well organized, and the entries are nicely cross-referenced. The material can be dry or a bit vague at times, especially for readers who would be interested in discovering real-life applications. However, it should be useful for students, and the wide scope of knowledge will keep it current for longer than many comparable titles. VERDICT This strong addition will be fun for browsers as well as for those selecting college majors and making job decisions.—Erinn Black Salge, Saint Peter's Prep, Jersey City, NJ
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"This is the prettiest, most well-organized, useful and up to date guide to careers that I have ever seen. It is a wonder, and it is a treasure. I haven't said this about any book, in the last twenty years." — Dick Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute?
"It will be a useful book for our family over the next few years as we begin the college/career process…I hope this book can give our kids some options they may not have originally considered." — SincerelyStacie.com
"This gives readers a range of options." — Booklist
"Getting a kid pointed in the right direction toward a career that is both meaningful and fulfilling is invaluable. Careers does a great job of laying out those opportunities." — GeekDad
"A useful additional purchase for a career section in a public or school library." — VOYA Magazine
"Careers is the ideal reference for undecided teens, parents, and guidance counselors looking for inside information on hundreds of careers." — San Diego Family Magazine
"Inspiring and imaginative as well as practical, Careers has charts and tables that help young people gauge interest about possible careers—it's like having a personal career advisor by your side whenever you need it!" — ChildressInk.com
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Very Well Done! By Talvi DK Published has managed a nearly impossible feat here: they've created a book that is packed full of information but also inviting and friendly. A perfect synthesis of hard and soft presentation to create a very useful and incredible usable guidebook suitable for teens and tweens.The book is color coded by job type and includes many disciplines: health and medicine; sports, leisure, and tourism; security and emergency services; construction; transportation; arts, crafts, design; performing arts, media, and journalism; sales, marketing, and advertising; administration and business management; finance, law, politics; information technology and computing; science and research; animals, farming, and the environment; engineering and manufacturing.Each of the above disciplines give information on several job types. E.g., Animals, Farming, and the Environment has job descriptions for: veterinarian, animal care worker, zookeeper, farm manager, horticultural worker, landscape architect, ecologist. This allows the child to see the different aspects of working in that field and gravitate toward one that appeal most are for which they are best suited.Each job has a career path journey graphically laid out with important aspects including personality needs, parent or role model influence, type of eduction received, internship, grades, after school jobs, future financial goals, where the tween lives, etc. It's a good reminder that no career is gifted - it takes work and dedication as well as many other factors to secure a desired job.There is also an 'understanding yourself' checklist to help readers find careers of interest. This includes call out boxes on personal qualities, circumstances, skills, interests, subjects, motivators, etc. It's great for tweens/teens who haven't gravitated to a career goal yet.There is also a section on taking action while in school to find out more about careers of interest. This includes setting goals, seeking advice, research, volunteering, and more. What it entails when actually going out and getting the job is also presented - again very graphically and intelligently.Each section of careers/job disciplines are color coded for easy reference. There is a description, salary caps, industry profile, related careers, checklist call out box to see if it would be suitable for the reader, career paths, and skills guide. All beautifully laid out and easy to follow.This could easily have been pretty to look at but not very useful. But in checking out the section on my particular career area (professional photographer), I was highly impressed with the relevance and accuracy of the job descriptions, salary expectations, and career paths. There were many places the editors could have got it very wrong if they had not looked into the careers in depth. But they got it all right - from the need for self promotion and management skills to the usefulness of internships. It was all right on the money for my husband's career as well.This is the type of book that is so well presented, it really should be at every junior high school in America. But it is also very useful and practical as a place to begin discussions of career choices in middle and high school. It's a book presented for the reader but without pandering or oversimplification. The graphics do more than pretty up the text - they categorize, order, and clarify the information presented.This is one book I highly recommend - one of the most intelligently presented, relevant, and accurate non fiction children's books I've read in a long time. Reviewed from an advance readers copy supplied by the publisher.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Good information for teens By Cathe I got this book for my teen daughters who are trying to figure out what they want to study in college and what careers might interest them. The book is divided into sections such as: Media and Journalism; Sales, Marketing and Advertising; Administration and Business Management; Finance, Law and Politics, Information Technology and Computing; etc. with brief information on a number of careers in each category giving a little info on the job and the education needed. The info is helpful, but the book can be a bit overwhelming and time consuming for teens who do not want to spend time paging through the whole book. A quiz or self evaluation would be helpful to guide teens to relevant sections or careers rather than having to locate the beginning of each section to read the descriptions and then page through all the career choices.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. I expected better By Traveler I'm going to be the skunk at the picnic. I expected a lot better from a DK published book.I've owned a lot of DK books. They have an established well deserved reputation for exciting illustrations and interesting layout and design. You know when you're reading a DK book - you'll be distracted by all the artwork and illustrations! I have a DK English dictionary which is several years old and it's just about perfect for families and kids. Illustrations on every page. It's a dictionary you actually want to browse through.Careers is not that kind of book. The only illustrations are iconic clip art. The result is that this is almost totally geared toward non-visual learners. It's totally text driven because icons don't really convey personal experience. I just don't think that's how most people's brains function. And besides, to understand what someone does in their job you need to SEE what they're doing, not just read about it. I realize this would increase the cost of the book. However, this is what DK Publishing does for a living. They must already have access to a massive library of imagery. Why skimp here?The second issue I have with the book is the inaccurate pay range estimates and the absurd examples they give between entry and professional level. The book shows jobs like electrician and carpenter as having the lowest beginning wages whereas someone in journalism have it slightly better in terms of starting pay. It's the opposite. These aren't the only examples of this misinformation.The examples of the range of positions in the US military are the most absurd. For example, in the Army profile they have private as the starting position and four star general as the advanced position. In all the other non-military jobs the range is more like junior scientist and senior scientist. How many senior scientists are there? Thousands. How many four star generals in the Army? There's a maximum of seven. No one joins the Army thinking they're going to make a living as a four star general. A more realistic goal would be staff sergeant or captain.Then there's the profile for college professor. There is zero mention of the adjunct professor. They show assistant professor as the starting position. That is just flat our incorrect. Adjuncts are part time professors who are paid per course, typically less than $3k per course in a semester with zero benefits. Adjuncts make up a minimum of 40% of all college teaching positions. Some estimates put it at well over 50%. There is no mention in the book about how your success depends on your chosen field of study. Study certain STEM fields and you've got a great career path. Pick a social science and you'll be an automatic adjunct at best.Yes, this book does offer a lot of valuable information. But I expected so much better from DK. And the inconsistencies just annoy the heck out of me. Kids need realistic advice when it comes choosing a career path. So this book is just the start of a far bigger conversation. If you or your child find an interesting career in this book you'll need to do more research to get a more accurate picture.
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