Designing Your Own Career

School Administrator, Oct, 1995 by Tom Narak

Designing Your Own Career: A Job Hunting Guide for Administrators (and Would-be Administrators) is an excellent resource for any educator who is anticipating a career move. Author Jerry J. Herman draws on his experiences as a public school and university administrator to provide the reader with a well-organized process for career planning and placement.

Important topics covered in the book include preparation of a winning profile; locating and selecting potential positions; making application; job interviewing; negotiating contracts; preparing for the new position; and developing an entry plan.

The appendix includes a job search model and a series of exercise worksheets for administrators to use for skill building in career planning. Aspiring administrators and practicing administrators with limited job search experience should find this section extremely useful.

(Designing Your Own Career: A Job Hunting Guide for Administrators (and Would-be Administrators), by Jerry J. Herman, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller Road, Newbury Park, Calif. 91320, 1994, 140 pp., $35 softcover)