Career Recovery

<p><em>Career Recovery: Creating Hopeful Careers in Difficult Times</em> provides readers with powerful strategies they can use to create hope and manage their careers throughout their lifetimes. The book introduces readers to the hope-action theory an empowering approach that highlights the connection between hope academic engagement student retention job search success career goal clarity and cultivating a meaningful career path.<br /><br />In Section I the text introduces the essentials of hope-action theory. The chapters illuminate the challenges of effective career self-management in a post-pandemic world and the importance of hope in career planning. Section II examines the crucial process of engaging in self-reflection to develop self-clarity. Readers uncover their unique passions skills personal styles and values. Section III highlights the need for support in career and educational planning. It teaches readers how to move from self-exploration to seeking support and fostering future opportunities. The final section focuses on implementing key decisions and transforming possibilities into realities.<br /><br /><em>Career Recovery</em> is an energizing resource that helps readers discover and channel hope to support the development and management of their chosen career paths.</p><p><strong>Spencer Niles</strong> is the dean of the School of Education at The College of William & Mary and past president of the National Career Development Association. He was awarded the Thomas Hohenshil National Publication Award by the American Counseling Association in 2019.</p><p><strong>Roberta Neault</strong> is the president of Life Strategies Ltd. and a project director with the Canadian Career Development Foundation.</p><p><strong>Hyung Joon Yoon</strong> is an assistant professor of workforce education and development in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems at the Pennsylvania State University.</p><p><strong>Norman Amundson</strong> is a professor of counseling psychology and faculty education at the University of British Columbia. He has over 40 years of experience in the career development field.</p>