Personal, academic and career development : SOARing to success

327 Pages·2008·6.114 MB·English

by  Arti Kumar

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3111 It is now widely recognized that graduates need to develop employability and
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9 Personal Development Planning (PDP) is a method of recording achievements,
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5 Packed full of useful practical features, this book enables readers to improve
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9 Personal, Academic and Career Development in Higher Educationis essential
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First published 2007
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.
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© 2007 by Arti Kumar
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or
reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kumar, Arti, 1946–
Personal, academic and career development: SOARing to success.
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LB1027.5.K78 2008
371.4 ′2–dc22 2007025392
ISBN 0-203-93834-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0–415–42359–7 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0–415–42360–0 (pbk)
ISBN10: 0–203–93834–8 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–42359–5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–415–42360–1 (pbk)
ISBN13: 978–0–203–93834–8 (ebk)
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For Bal, unintentionally instrumental in the formation
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of my own career identity; and for Sanjeen, Umesh
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and Manoj: perfect proof of my SOAR principles
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4 Foreword xi
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1 A theoretical and applied model: integrating
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3 Realizing the potential of SOAR 45
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‘Self’ in the SOA R process: building a MAP for the
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Opportunity in the SOAR process 179
8 Researching and engaging with ‘Opportunity’ 181
9 Understanding the changing world 206
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Aspirations in the SOAR process 223
10 Aspirations, decisions, plans 225
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Results in the SOAR process 249
11 Demonstrating results 251
12 Evaluating results 273
Notes 283
Bibliography 286
Index 297
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2.1 Super’s life-span, life-space approach to ‘career’ 15
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2.2 ‘Self’ as hero in the journey of life 30
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2.3 A linear structure for formal programmes or modules 32
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2.4 SOAR as a cyclical, developmental process 33
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4.1 ‘Self-awareness’ and ‘other awareness’ skills in a success cycle 78
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7.1 ‘Preferences’ and ‘handedness’ 160
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8.2 Interface between the individual, the team and the organization 189
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6 10.2 Law’s ‘career decision learning theory’ 228
7 10.3 The zig-zag model of decision making and problem solving 237
8 11.1 Reading between the lines of a job advertisement 258
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