Creating Careers with Confidence » (1st Edition)

 Ed Colozzi is a career-life counselor whose special interests are career development—helping people discover their callings, meaning, and purpose across career and life roles—and the creation of multimedia guidance materials for use in education, agency, and business settings as well as the home environment.

 He has taught career development courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has provided in-service training and consultation to a wide variety of professionals in K-12, college, agency, and corporate settings.  His 30 years of counseling and teaching include experience at Barnard College, Columbia University, Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY, the University of Hawaii, Chaminade University, Bunker Hill Community College, and Leeward Community College, where he served as the coordinator of the Career Development Center for 10 years.

 Ed served on the Governor's Manpower Commission on Full Employment, State of Hawaii, for seven years and was project director for the pilot site of Career Kokua, a computerized career information system used extensively throughout Hawaii.  He also served as project director for a mini-field test of Discover II, a national computer guidance system developed by JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey and currently owned and distributed by the American College Testing (ACT) Program.  He pioneered the career-life focus and the use of computerized career guidance throughout Hawaii and the Pacific Basin region in the late 1970s.

 Born and raised in the Boston area, Ed earned his B.A. degree in Psychology from Boston University, a master's degree in Counseling Psychology with aspecialty in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, and a second master's and his doctorate in Higher Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

 He is a nationally certified counselor (NCC), a licensed mental health counselor (MAMHC), a certified trainer for Massachusetts, a master career counselor (MCC), and a National Career Development Association (NCDA) Fellow.

 Ed is the founder and owner of Career Development and Counseling Services, presently located in Winchester, Massachusetts.  He also provides consultation services to national and multinational clients.  He has created Internet-based career guidance materials and a career guidance game for middle school students, and has worked closely with several projects involving the development of statewide standards for career development.  Moreover, Ed is a national trainer for several associations including the NCDA and the American Counseling Association, and he offers motivational presentations to a variety of school, college, agency, and corporate settings.

 Ed has authored numerous articles, book chapters and, most recently, a monograph that is being published by the NCDA on DOVE (Depth-Oriented Values Extraction), a values clarification process that he created in 1978 and has used extensively with thousands of students and clients over the years.

 You may contact Ed directly, toll-free, at 1-877-6-WISHES to speak with him.  Or you can email him at careercoachcolozzi@verizon.net, or visit his website at  http://lifeworkps.com/edwardc.

Written by nationally renowned career development consultant, Ed Colozzi, Creating Careers with Confidence is an inspiring, powerfully reflective, engaging, accessible, and valuable self-paced workbook.  Based on highly respected and proven career develoment theory, this workbook facilitates discovering one's calling, increasing personal awareness, empowering self-efficacy beliefs, and understanding the possibility of creating careers with meaning and personal fulfillment.

Having consulted, trained, and taught in the career development arena for more than three decades, in the late 1970's Ed coined the term career/life, which reframes the notion of career as a choice involving multiple life roles.  Ed focuses his work in discovering callings and the role of spirituality, meaning, purpose, and values in the career choice process.

Key factors that raise self-efficacy beliefs (performance objectives, verbal persuasion, vicarious learning experiences, and physiological states) are creatively woven into the fabric of the various activities, including the introductory fable, The Choice.  Indeed, The Choice is a powerful metaphor for making career/life choices based on the Holland typology.  Creating Careers with Confidence effectively teaches students about the career development process and offers an logical step-by-step approach that results in clarity, direction, and increased career decision-making self-efficacy.  This model translates into student success in the classroom and school-to-work transitions.

Based on a constructivist approach and a combination of developmental, matching, and decision-making theories, this self-paced workbookoffers the following benefits and more:

• Essentials of career exploration and planning

• Reflection with a focus on the opportunity to create careers that provide meaning and purpose

• The self-discovery process and its impact on making occupational choices coupled with one's personality type

• Effective exercises for balancing career and life roles

• Internet links for numerous helpful sites including the interactive ACT World-of-Work Map

• Best Next Steps for developing an individual action plan to implement career/life choices

• An Informational Interview activity that highlights the value of networking and researching hidden job markets

• A valuable appendix filled with practical activities including an Academic Advising Guide for college course selection, a section on cover letters, resume writing, job interviews, and Personal Coaching Tools for stress reduction, time management, and setting and accomplishing goals. 

 “In your Creating Careers with Confidence workbook, you have shown a rare ability to incorporate many of the best ideas on helping people to understand their potential and to find out ways of developing and using it in the world of work into one small, easily understood, and very interesting package. Your use of the inspiring banyan tree to help people analyze their interests, skills, and values; the adaptations of Holland’s typology, My Rainbow, Bowlsbey’s decision model, Prediger’s world-of work map, and your own considerable experience in group and individual career counseling have produced an appealing and valuable workbook for helping people to understand the career pathways that they might follow in search of self-fulfillment.”

—Donald E. Super, PH.D.

“Based on the best of career development theory and practice, this interesting and self-paced booklet teaches its readers how to learn about themselves, decide what they want in each of life’s roles, and then how to get it!”

 —JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey, Ed.D.

For further information and support, contact the author at 1-877-6-WISHES or www.lifeworkps.com/edwardc.

Visit the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources. 

A Personal Letter To You From Me

Contents

Table of Exercises

About the Author

Acknowledgements

The Choice

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

PART I

SELF-KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOURSELF

The Banyan Tree

The Five-Minute Rainbow Connection: Adult Daydreaming

Banyan Branches: My Interests

Banyan Branches: My Skills

Banyan Branches: My Values

Banyan Branches Δ Summary Codes

My Sellf-Knowledge Code

Review, Reflect, Reconnect: The Holland Connection

PART II

KEY CONCEPTS FOR MAKING SUCCESSFUL CAREER-LIFE DECISIONS

The Reflective-Intuitive Decision-Making Process

 "The Ice Cream Cone": Applying the Reflective Intuitive Process

How Reflective-Intuitive Decision Making Works

The Career-Life Concept

Evaluating My Present Career-Life Roles

My Personal Career-Life Rainbow

Personality-Environment Matches

A Framework for Improved Career-Life Directions

PART III

THE WORLD OF WORK: WHERE THE JOBS ARE!

The World-of-Work Map

My Work Task Preferences

My World-of-Work Regions Preference

Examining the World-of-Work Map

A World-of-Work Map Mini-Quiz

PART IV

MATCHING YOU WITH THE WORLD OF WORK

Using My Holland Code to Match World-of-Work Regions and Career Areas

My Two-Step Safety Net

PART V

LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE OCCUPATIONS THAT MATCH YOU

Information Resources for Exploration

Occupational Research

The Informational Interview

PART VI

YOUR FUTURE CAREER-LIFE SITUATION

Self-Knowledge and the Learning Process

The Golden Coconut

PART VII

CREATING YOUR RAINBOW

Your Best Next Step

APPENDIX 1  CAREER-LIFE THEMES

APPENDIX 2  IDEAL CAREER SCENARIO

APPENDIX 3  PERSONAL PORTFOLIO