Step by Step to College and Career Success at Kirkwood Community College


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Step by Step to College and Career Success is your essential toolkit for success. Find a career that matches your strengths, discover technology for college and career success, and experience essential steps to college success -- when you study the 14 things you should do right away to succeed.







Step by Step to College and Career Success


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Succeed in college like never before! "Step By Step To College and Career Success" shows you how. With the authors' signature "12 Steps" approach, you'll see how small changes can make a big difference. Whether you're looking for better grades, stronger academic skills, or a successful transition to (or advancement in) the working world, STEP "Step By Step To College and Career Success" is the textbook you need to get there.




Step by Step to College and Career Success


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Do you want a compact college success book with robust technology coverage? Gardner’s user-friendly, class-tested, and authoritatively research-based Step by Step to College and Career Success is for you! This is the briefest title in the Gardner family of books, and the authors have focused on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students make in order to succeed in college and beyond. Each new copy of the text can be packaged with LaunchPad Solo for Step by Step, our online platform that includes ACES student self-assessment, videos, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, and more. A full package of instructional support materials provides instructors all the tools they will need to engage students in this course and increase student retention.




Step by Step to College and Career Success


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Pioneers in the field of student success research, Gardner and his team have produced a concise, data-driven sequel to their highly successful first edition. Step by Step to College and Career Success rests on the idea that all beginning students have a better chance of collegiate success if they are comprehensively prepared for the challenges of their crucial first year. Not only do students need to develop strong academic skills and habits, but they also must learn how to manage time, maintain health and wellness, get involved in campus and community life, and respect and appreciate diversity. Both user-friendly and authoritatively research-based, Step By Step to College and Career Success balances theory with hands-on learning and offers students proven information and straightforward strategies that they can apply toward their success.







Connections


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Connections is an innovative program, built from the ground up with a growth-mindset approach to college and career success. Written by counseling psychologists Paul Gore, Wade Leuwerke, and A.J. Metz, Connections shows students from day one how to be learners, whose mindset, drive, and strengths will help them meet any challenge on their way to college, personal, and career success. The expertly designed program is firmly rooted in the most current research in positive psychology, using self-reflection as a tool for goal-setting; goal-setting as a tool for imagining one's potential; and imagining one's potential as the motivation for realizing it. Connections puts students at the center of their own personalized learning path, facilitates their purposeful choice of an academic and career plan, and develops all the skills they need--cognitive and non-cognitive, academic and life--to foster their self-growth and success. Built around the most common issues faced in the classroom, LaunchPad for Connections, Second Edition gives students everything they need to prepare for class and exams, including author-developed digital tools linked directly to the eBook, the ACES student self-assessment (taken at the start and end of term), and our acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything they need to quickly set up a course, customize the content, prepare presentations and lectures, assign and assess homework, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.










The College Student's Guide to Landing a Great Job


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There is a Way to significantly increase your chances for landing a great job with a well known and respected employer. If that is your goal, this book can help you achieve that goal. The most successful students realize that they must compete for the best jobs. They also realize that there are steps that they must follow along the way, to put themselves in the best position for success. To be more successful, you should: - Figure out where you want to go (A clear direction) - Investigate what it will take to get there - Create a detailed, step-by-step plan of action - Participate in campus, work and community activities - Build a list of significant accomplishments - Demonstrate the most desirable, work related skills - Prepare for and conduct a comprehensive job search Every year, too many good students lose out to better prepared candidates and must settle for lesser jobs with less impressive employers. This regularly happens to students who: - Don't understand the job hunting process - Fail to adequately prepare for the senior year job search - Are unaware of what is important to recruiters and employers - Don't know how to compete effectively for the best jobs Students understand that their cumulative average is built semester by semester. And yet, most students and parents don't recognize that the same thing is true of the job search plan. The accomplishments, successes, achievements and positive results that you will include on your resume will be accumulated as you move through your four-year college experience. Students who wait until their senior year to think about their resume and job search strategy are unlikely to land a great job. Smart student plan for success. They actively strive to put themselves in the best possible position to land a great job. Those who don't will fall by the wayside. Since every student can improve their chances for a better job by following the week-by-week plan contained in this book, only one question remains. How badly d