HOW TO BE WIRED FOR CAREER SUCCESS

By Dr. Evelyn Roberts

PURSUE YOUR DREAMS AND EARN A BIG PAYCHECK

How to Be Wired for Career Success is a must-read for anyone tying to plan a career path. It's also a valuable resource for parents, teachers, youth leaders and guidance counselors who want to offer more expert advice than the routine "Do what you love"!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Transcontinental Education Inc.
• Release date: Feb 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9780692949467

Dr. Evelyn Roberts

Dr. Evelyn Roberts is a sought after career and business consultant for over thirty years. She has mentored many young adults from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, and West Africa. Helping thousands of them discover their gifts and talents. Dr. Evelyn Roberts, earned her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati and has served in different capacities as a college professor, conference speaker, founder and CEO of Transcontinental Education, Inc. She lives in Maryland, USA with her family.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

INTRODUCTION

Why another book on Career?

CHAPTER ONE:

What is a Career?

CHAPTER TWO

What is a Gift?

CHAPTER THREE

How to Discover Your Gifts and Talents.

CHAPTER FOUR

Key Principles for making a Career Decision

CHAPTER FIVE

Work It.

CHAPTER SIX

If Wishes Were Horses

CHAPTER SEVEN: Resources Here and Beyond

This is a Perfect Book for:

Are you a high school student who has been asked that famous question: What do you want to do when you grow up? Or what major will you be pursuing in college? And your mind is raising in different directions? Are you pressured to follow your friends, or are you expected to live up the dreams of your parents? Are you continuing in the family tradition of lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers etc.? Do you feel that inner struggle and frustration of what career path to pursue?

Or you are a career and guidance counselor. You work with thousands of young adults year after year and wants to make a meaningful contribution, by impacting their lives and becoming an agent of change and a point of reference, when your clients look back on their career paths in the future? If your answered yes, to any of these questions, then this book is for YOU.

This is also a book for every parent or guardian. You are the first teacher of your child. Even before they have the chance of taking their first steps towards a school. You will find in this pages informed that will equip you with the answers to give, when that moment of inquiry comes Mom and Dad, what major do you think I should pursue in college?’ Mom, I am very confused about what to do when I grow up".

This book is also a resource for teachers and youth leaders, who have dedicated your lives to serving our future leaders and are bombarded with questions about career choice every day and wish you could give a more expert advice than the routine Do what you love.

DEDICATION

To my children William, David and Jasmine who found their life purpose at a very young age by applying the principles that I have shared in this book. And to everyone who wants to live a purpose driven life.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

A special thanks to Nicholas Lore and Marcia Bench for the insights they share on pursuing your career and discovering your purpose. Each of them have a very unique way of presenting these truths, that resonated with my believe system and informed my practice.

Thanks to my mom who is my life coach and mentor. She paid the price to put me through a college education which was