Athletes Guide to Career Planning

By Al Petitpas, Delight Champagne, Judy Chartrand

" The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning is a straight forward guide that shows how to develop a ""game plan"" for life. High school, college, and elite athletes will find helpful tips for balancing school, work, and the demands of sport participation. Coaches and counselors will find valuable career and life skills information to share with their athletes. The highly experienced authors, who have worked with thousands of athletes at all levels, provide specific tools to help readers make important transitions and life decisions during each stage in their athletic career. With 46 easy-to-use worksheets, readers will learn how to - identify physical and psychological transitions; - establish and use support systems to guide them through transitions and plan for the future; - relate scholastic and vocational choices to their personal identity; - balance the demands of sport and academics; - apply sport skills to career planning; - identify and match their skills, interests, and values with career goals; and - succeed at the job search process, including writing resumes and cover letters and preparing for interviews. The Athlete's Guide to Career Planning also features case studies of athletes that help readers understand important issues about athletic life and transitions. "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873224590
• ISBN13: 9780873224598
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

terrific guide to get your child directed

This is a terrific guide for your child to get a hold of what plans they need to have in place if they are truely serious about those claims that they want to be an athelete for a career. It will help you as a parent to figure out how serious they are, and if they are how to move forward towards planning and acting on helping them achieve their goal. It will help them look at goals and move forward with a purpose. I highly recommend this book.