(QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS: DeLand, FL) – Most undergraduate college majors can provide a path to a specific career in a student’s field of study without the need to complete a graduate degree, writes Dr. Randall Hansen in the newly released book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Choosing a College Major (Alpha/Penguin Group).

Hansen, a nationally recognized career and job-search expert and founder of Quintessential Careers (QuintCareers.com), one of the oldest and most comprehensive career development sites on the web, notes that students are often misguided to choose majors that require graduate school to complete their goals when career options are available to them right out of college.

“This book is designed to help college students choose a major that leads to a meaningful career and fulfills practical and personal goals -- not just a job,” said Hansen, who is also a professor of marketing in the School of Business Administration at Stetson University.

“I’ve seen too many students choose majors for the wrong reasons or end up in their senior year with a major they don’t want to be in,” said Hansen. “Almost every college major has a plethora of career opportunities for students right out of college. That’s not to say that there aren’t more lucrative positions for students who continue on to earn graduate degrees.”

The book offers tips on choosing a college major that will help land well paying jobs, facts on majors employers love to see on resumes, finding a major that reflects personal interests as well as offering guidance toward a field of study that will help fulfill personal goals. It also includes detailed salary information, resources for finding more information, and job growth statistics for the next decade.

Quintessential Careers includes more than 350 articles and tutorials on all aspects of job-hunting, from career exploration to job offer negotiation and boasts more 3,500 pages of free content. The site also reviews and links to more than 1,400 job boards and company career centers, including job sites in all industries and located in the U.S. and around the world. Visitors will also find career information on writing cover letters and resumes, mastering job interviews, and negotiating salaries. The QuintZine newsletter keeps subscribers current on college, career, and job-hunting trends while listing all the latest additions to the site.

Quintessential Careers is the main site in a network of empowering sites (EmpoweringSites.com), including: CareerDoctor.org, Quintessential Careers Press, MyCareerBlast.com, and Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters, among others. Quintessential Careers has received more than 100 awards and honors, been recognized in numerous career books and magazines, and welcomed the praises of career counselors, job-seekers, and employers from throughout the U.S. and around the world.

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