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Athlete's Guide to Career Planning: Key to Success from the Playing Field to Professional Life

Athlete's Guide to Career Planning: Key to Success from the Playing Field to Professional Life

by ShaneMurphy (Author), Al Petitpas (Author), Delight Champagne (Author), JudyChartrand (Author), StevenDanish (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

This straightforward guide shows you how to develop a game plan for life. The authors, drawing on years of experience working with athletes at all levels, provide specific tools to help you make important life decisions and transitions during your athletic career. With 46 easy-to-use worksheets, you'll learn how to identify and prepare for key physical and psychological transitions; establish and use support systems to guide you through transitions and plan for the future; relate scholastic and vocational choices to your personal identity; balance the demands of sport, academics, and work; select the right schools for your academic and athletic needs; apply sport skills to career planning; identify and match your skills, interests, and values with career goals; and position yourself for a successful job search by writing effective resumes and managing job interviews. Learn how to use the dedication, teamwork, competitiveness, and people skills you've learned from playing sports to win at the big game - life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Published: 30 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 0873224590
ISBN 13: 9780873224598

Media Reviews

During my career in athletics, I have dealt as a coach and administrator, with athletes at every level, high school, college, professional and international. Al Petipas' excellent work is applicable to all levels, but a must resource for young people and their parents.
David R. Gavitt
President, N.C.A.A. Foundation


Author Bio


Al Petitpas, EdD, is professor of psychology and director of graduate training at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. He has designed and implemented career development and transition programs for elite athletes, including the Career Assistance Program for Athletes (CAPA) for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and the Planning for Future Careers Program for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). He also helped to create the NCAA Youth Education through Sports Program (YES).

Working in the area of career development for more than 20 years, Delight E. Champagne, PhD, has helped athletes at the college and professional level, including the USOC and LPGA. She is a professor of psychology at Springfield College where she coordinates the graduate preparation program in student personnel and teaches graduate-level career development courses.

Judy Chartrand, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University where she teaches courses in career development. In 1995 she received the Early Career Award from the American Psychology Association for her work in career development. She has consulted with the U.S. Olympic Team for CAPA.

Steven J. Danish, PhD, has worked with more than 100 Olympic athletes, helping them plan for life after sports. Danish was instrumental in designing the USOC program for athletes.
He is director of the Life Skills Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.

Throughout his career, Shane M. Murphy, PhD, has helped hundreds of athletes with performance and personal concerns. He served as the sport psychologist for the USOC from 1987 to 1994. Murphy continues to work with athletes as a consultant and writes numerous articles and chapters on sport psychology.