Short description
Career? Sorted! is a handbook on careers for young South Africans. The current South African context presents young people with unique challenges – this title equips readers with the background, knowledge and insight necessary to successfully rise to thes
Long description
Career? Sorted! is a simple and appealing handbook on careers for young South Africans. The current South African context presents young people with unique challenges – this title equips readers with the background, knowledge and insight necessary to successfully rise to these challenges. Part one, The dynamic world of work, explores the contemporary world of work, showing why approaches used to help young adults with career decisions, as well as those used by young adults to find work or fulfilling careers, may no longer be successful. Part two, Life is about choices, facilitates self-exploration and self-awareness – identifying skills, interests and personality as a basis for making a career choice, before exploring the different options available after school, be it further study, travel, work experience. In part three, taking responsibility, the reader is shown some fundamental and indispensable tools to get ahead in the real world, including how to write a curriculum vitae and how to create a winning personal brand. Career? Sorted! is the essential companion for any serious career pathfinder.