Career Information, Career Counseling, and Career Development (9th Edition),   ISBN:9780205498413

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I had to purchase this as a text book for a class that I am taking. It is horrible, probably the worst text book I have ever read! It reads like a literature review not a text book. There are so many references to other sources that you skip over half a page for all of the APA citations. The author even references one of this own books and theories in the book. Maybe he presents everything out there but if you don't know what to look for you can't find it. My professor even said he had to read it three times to make sense of it all. In addition, my professor skips over large sections since it doesn't apply any longer or isn't useful. I hope that you aren't stuck reading this book too!

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Never received book and the money was not returned to me.

I attempted to contact the seller twice with no response.

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Book is OK - I had to purchase it for a class. It could have been organized better by the publishers.

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Now in its ninth edition, this book has become the standard of the field. It is intended to help those whose job it is to facilitate the career development process. This includes school, employment, career and rehabilitation counselors as well as other individuals who are influential in the career development process.

The ninth edition has improvements in virtually all areas, the most important of which is that it now meets all Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) standards. Another area that has been expanded is the concept of a career that changes from time to time in the workers life. Based on chaos theory, this realizes that the outlook for particular jobs, particular careers change from time to time and in unpredictable ways.

The strengths that this book brings to the subject in the form of the writing style and intellectual depth of the author remain; making this book both educational and entertaining.

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Considering the vast topic this is a fairly good book. I found some of the data to be dated at this point and some what sexist.