The Careers Handbook: The ultimate guide to planning your future

by D.K. Publishing

A must-have guide to the world of work.

Featuring over 400 careers, with 134 main job entries and hundreds of related careers, this career planning guide will help you find your dream job.

Discover your own personal career coach! This career development book includes:

- Easy-to-navigate content and spread structure that helps readers to find the perfect career for them
- Career counselling and career management advice
- At-a-glance panels that provide information on interests, entry qualifications, lifestyle, location, and the realities of the job
- Skills Guide boxes that help readers to assess the suitability of each of the main jobs featured
- Bright, bold, icon-led design that makes the process of job-hunting less daunting and more fun

The A to Z of careers! From social media and IT careers to jobs in architecture, hospitality, medicine, science, law, and the environment, this careers directory will help you kick-start your new career path! The featured jobs have been selected by an expert consultant and a team of career advisers.

Packed with practical and inspirational advice about our constantly changing job market, this is your ultimate career resource. The revised edition reveals the most exciting jobs in data science and online platforms, whilst also arming you with all the information you need for career success in more "traditional" areas, from accounting to teaching.

Whether you are a teenager seeking career advice or a young adult or adult thinking about a career change or new career, The Careers Handbook is here to help you answer that all-important question - what do you want to be?

Let the job-hunting begin!

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

Paperback

Published June 6, 2019

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Marwa Abdallah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you for this book that covers almost every possible career. I found this book extremely useful to help students in Grade 9 explore their career interests this summer.
While struggling to find a book that is comprehensive and suitable for students this age, this book was so helpful.

[Exlibris Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent, fully up-to-date career guide for teenagers. More than 400 professions explained.

[MK · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book introduces job types to young people looking for work and provides a roadmap for building a career. There are two concise pages for each job category.

The book introduces young people looking for work to the occupations and provides a roadmap for building a career. It is concise, with two pages per job title.

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got this for a friend's teenage kid who's starting to think about careers and college. Kid loved it. Typical DK style book with fantastic diagram and graphics. Each two-page spread details a career and attempts to outline the education, training, time commitment, and pay for each job. Will definitely get again for kids considering their future.

[Kasia Hrms · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute item for school teachers and career counsellors, career coaches and anybody who accompanies youngsters and adolescents in their educational choices.

[Mahshid Parchami · Rating 4 out of 5]

کتاب بسیار جالب و خوش آب و رنگ برای آشنایی با رشته ها و مشاغل، علاوه بر کسانی که به دنبال انتخاب شغل و رشته هستند، کاربرد زیادی برای مشاوران شغلی و تحصیلی داره.

[Sensei Uzi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good illustration and helpful!

[Llinos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful and clear.

[Emily Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

It really helped me to properly investigate what careers I want to go into and narrowed down my options. I think it's a really valuable book.