Quick Guide to College Majors and Careers
- ISBN-10
- 1593576374
- ISBN-13
- 9781593576370
- Pages
- 357
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Jist Works
- Author
- Laurence Shatkin
Description
This guide matches students with college majors based on their interests, skills, favorite high school courses, and work-related values, linking 127 majors to 263 careers, from accounting to zoology. It describes what each career is like, the course of study, related specialties, job titles, earnings, projected growth, number of openings, matching personality type, and other characteristics. Information is based on data from the National Crosswalk Service Center that was used by the US Department of Labor to search in its Occupational Information Network database, as well as statistics from the Department of Labor and other sources. Shatkin is an author and speaker with extensive experience in the career information field. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
