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Focus on Your Career
Special features spotlight information that is
important for career preparation. Practical
tips help you focus on what is important as you
look for a job.
•
What Employers Want explores expectations
for the workplace. By considering the employer’s
point of view, you can prepare for your career by
developing positive behaviors to use on the job.
•
The Best App for That recommends helpful
smartphone apps. You will learn how to use
your mobile devices as tools for the career-
search process.
•
Social Media for Your Career gives
examples of social media sites that can
double as online career networking hubs.
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Exploring Certifi cation presents passages
that sharpen your reading, locating information,
and math skills. Completing these activities
will hone these basic skills to help prepare
you for professional certifi cation.
It is important to assess what you learn
as you progress through the text. Multiple
opportunities are provided to confi rm learning
as you explore the content.
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Connect to Your Career activities take
you beyond the classroom. Practical,
realistic, interactive applications allow
you to apply the concepts you learn to
your job search. Activity fi les are available
on the G-W Learning companion website.
•
E-Flash Card Activities include each career-
related term presented in the text. They
are available on the G-W Learning companion
website as well as the G-W Learning mobile
site. Use the e-fl ash cards to reinforce what you
learned and allow you to study on the go.
•
Review Your Knowledge questions highlight basic
concepts presented in the chapter so you can evaluate
your understanding of the material.
•
Apply Your Knowledge activities challenge you to
integrate what you learned in the with your
own experiences and goals.
Focus on Your Career
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Social Media for Your Career
Vizualize.meCovergrap
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allows users to turn text appealing charts for use in an
infographic résumé. Users can import their career information
directly from their LinkedIn or Twitter accounts. The
Vizualize.me
program auto-populates the graphic résumé with your information.
Users can choose from free media options or pay a fee for designed
templates and styles.
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