vocational interests

Profiles the experiences of nine young athletes who dream of playing at the professional level.

Describes nearly 270 occupations, providing information on the skills, training, education requirements, working conditions, salaries, and future growth of each field.

Contains advice on finding a career; includes information on getting the best training, finding a job quickly, conducting an interview, improving a current job, and other related topics.

Contains descriptions of approximately one thousand jobs, grouped in fourteen major interest areas, with information on required skills and knowledge, education, and training.

Provides ten, self-assessment tests aimed at revealing the reader's ideal career; examining values, skills, interests, personality, work environment, location, the balance between work and life, entrepreneurial readiness, managerial suitability, and emotional intelligence; and providing analyses of results.

Helps people find the best career for their personality, with three hundred job descriptions for six personality types and lists of the best jobs with the best pay, fastest growth and most openings.

Draws on information from government sources to compile a list of the best jobs in today's economy, describing more than 250 occupations that fall into the "best jobs" category as well as information on each job's required skills.

Describes approximately 250 occupations and provides information on the skills, training, and education required, the working conditions, and salaries paid, and discusses predictions for future growth in each field.

Contains detailed descriptions of 270 major occupations in the U.S. economy, discussing the nature of the work, working conditions, job requirements, employment outlook, and earnings potential; each followed by brief information about similar occupations for a total of more than six thousand job accounts.