Why This Book?
Helping Teens Avoid Career Traps
As author and coach, Tamara knew she wanted to help teens avoid the career traps she’d fallen into in her own early career journey. Her advice begins at the most important point of a student’s career journey: the beginning—when they’re still determining what they’re good at and genuinely interested in.
She urges students to consider what impact they’d like to make on the world and to identify their interests by taking advantage of multiple career exploration avenues. She also reassures them that they can put together a resume and references, even if they’ve never had a “real” job.
Careering: The Pocket Guide to Exploring Your Future Career offers a practical way to explore, experience and eliminate possible career paths. It provides a seamless step-by-step process. It’s the information-packed guide for students, teens and young adults to explore their career future—and it’s an ideal size for a pocket.
Topics include how to explore career options, network effectively, apply for jobs, develop interviewing skills, and conduct oneself once landing a job. The interactive, engaging “workbook” format allows for readers to write their plans, interests and aspirations on blank lines provided.
Careering also contains a quick reference guide on participating in college immersion programs, summer camps, competitions, seasonal and entry-level jobs, and internships, and offers other key resources. Plus, Tamara offers advice for teens on how to responsibly use social media so it doesn’t hurt their chances of landing work.
Specifically, Careering is a concise and easy-to-read pocket guide that helps young people:
- Evaluate their interests, skills, and passions
- Identify jobs, internships, and volunteer positions that align with their personal gifts
- Identify multiple career exploration avenues, from camps to summer jobs
- Put together a resume and references, even if they've never had a "real" job
- Learn how to network, apply for jobs and develop interviewing skills
- Learn how to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities
- Learn how not to use social media if they want to land a job
…to name a few.
More Book and Author Details
Tamara S. Raymond is a certified leadership coach and career strategist dedicated to helping
professionals reach their maximum potential and young people get on the right career path so they can make a difference.
Careering: The Pocket Guide to Exploring Your Future Career is Tamara's first book. It is available as a paperback, e-book and audiobook (see below). An online course based on the book is slated for release in Fall 2020.
In her book, Tamara has woven together her extensive career experience, academic journey and passion for coaching-mentoring youth to share knowledge with teens and young adults. Tamara’s goal is to offer them unique insight into how to excel both academically and in their chosen profession through awareness of their goals, interests and talents, in a purposeful and focused way.
Her hope is to make this book accessible to all students, reaching as many students as she can, for all the high school kids who, like her, really need help figuring out the next steps.
