You Majored In What?, Katharine Brooks, EdD
You Majored In What?, Katharine Brooks, EdD
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You Majored In What?
Designing Your Path from College to Career

Author: Katharine Brooks, EdD

Narrator: Vanessa Daniels

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/20/2017

Synopsis

“So what are you going to do with your major?”

It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond.

Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college.

You will learn to map your experiences for insights into your strengths and passions, design possible lives, and create goals destined to take you wherever you want to go. Using techniques and ideas that have guided thousands of college students to successful careers, Dr. Brooks will teach you to outsmart and outperform your competition, with more Wisdom Builders and an easily applied career development process.

No matter what career you aspire to, You Majored in What? offers a practical, creative, and successful approach to finding your path to career fulfillment.

About Katharine Brooks, EdD

Katharine Brooks, EdD, has been providing career services for more than twenty-five years, specializing in the career needs of college students and alumni in career transition. She has also worked with college students with attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities.

Brooks has written numerous articles for career services professionals and students, focusing on the value of a liberal arts degree, positive psychology and appreciative inquiry.

Her article "Making the Most of Your Liberal Arts Degree" has appeared for many years in NACE's Job Choices for Business and Liberal Arts Students. Her expertise in career issues has been recognized in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, US News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cosmopolitan, the Associated Press, and CNN/Fortune.

Brooks has a doctorate in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology, and a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from West Virginia University. Her bachelor's degree is in Sociology and Anthropology from Gettysburg College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly

I needed some "career therapy" and this book fit the bill. Going from college to grad school to a job with a group that I'd interned with, I've never had to really think about how to market myself to potential employers because things came pretty easily. And now that I am actively looking for a new......more

Goodreads review by Petrina

4.5 stars! For a career guidance book, this was fantastic in guiding me to discover what I already knew about myself deep down. I thoroughly enjoyed the mapping processes, the 'theme'ing of my life, and it was interesting to learn more about myself in this way. In the future, I will surely pick up th......more

Goodreads review by Alessandro

Excellent. Need motivation and confidence to ace job interviews? Need to make sense of the mixed-bag of studies you’ve done in all your schooling so far? This guide will help you unearth your strengths and experience, and turn you into a master salesman of your professional and interpersonal abiliti......more

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