The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Choosing a College Major:
Future-Focused Strategies for Finding a Field Where You’ll Excel
Real jobs for real majors!
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
Alpha Books
ISBN: 1592576850
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This guide to majors, careers, and jobs helps students:
plan their futures by examining lifelong interests, skills, and passions
conduct career search through personal and experiential sources
decide on majors and minors by determining what’s best for them
Readers can find practical advice and information on real job titles and careers for
college graduates with just about any college major, from business and the arts, to
science and music. Each chapter includes information on typical majors, background
on various careers, skills needed, sample job entry-level job ads, industry resources
and professional associations, employment outlook, salary information, and other features.
From the back cover...
You want a college major that’s both practical and personally fulfilling. And you can’t afford
to spend six years in school, “sampling” different fields until you find the one that fits…
Focus your efforts! Follow the commonsense advice in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Choosing a
College Major, and you’ll be that much closer to making this life-changing decision. In this book, you get:
Practical tips on choosing a college major that will help you land a well-paying job.
Fast facts about the majors empoyers live o see on resumes.
Hints on finding a major that reflects your own interests and hobbies.
Guidance toward a field of study that will help you fulfill personal goals like travel or service to others.
What can you do with your major? It depends. You're completing one of the most
important steps right now -- conducting research. While your college degree is the
most important goal, a major can play an important role in helping provide you with
direction toward a successful career. By choosing a college major because of
specific job opportunities, you can then gain valuable experience while in college
that should also help you decide if that major and career are right for you.
What Can I do With a Major in...:
Careers in the Arts:
The Visual Arts (Art, Art History, Photography, Film Studies)
