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This thought-provoking, encouraging book explains the differences between healthy ambition and unhealthy perfectionism and gives strategies for getting out of the perfectionism trap - from recognizing the symptoms to rewarding yourself for who you are, not what you do. It explains why some people become perfectionists, what perfectionism does to the mind and body, why girls are especially prone to perfectionism, and more. It also gives adults insight into how their behavior and expectations can contribute to perfectionism in teens they parent and teach.
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Provides an overview of career opportunities in the fields of research and development, and outlines the personal qualities needed for a successful career.
Great Jobs for Music Majors (Great Jobs For…Series) eBook: Jan Goldberg: Books
(Every college major gives students valuable skills and tr...)
Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect for a wide range of careers. The Great Jobs series helps students: Assess talents and skills for a job Explore a wide range of career options Target the perfect career Present college majors as workplace assets Perfect their job search And much more!
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Answers the question, "What can I do with a major in...?" Students can explore their career options within their field of study using the Great Jobs series as their guide. From assessing individual talents and skills to taking the necessary steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in a career choice is covered. Readers learn to explore their options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results.
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Great Jobs For... Each book in this series helps students discover new employment possibilities, assess strengths and interests, and develop a path for advancement and success in a chosen field. Ideal for those exploring which major to take in college.
(Great Jobs For . . . Each book in this series helps stude...)
Great Jobs For . . . Each book in this series helps students discover new employment possibilities, assess strengths and interests, and develop a path for advancement and success in a chosen field. Ideal for those exploring which major to take in college.
Careers for Color Connoisseurs & Other Visual Types
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Careers For You is the only career series to help you turn your passion into a paycheck! The inspiring Careers for Color Connoisseurs & Other Visual Types will help you examine the field through the unique lens of your own interests. Vital information on each job includes: The latest details on training and education Stories of success Advice on competing in hot job markets Tips on transforming your hobby into job skills Expert advice on finding and getting the job
Careers for Competitive Spirits & Other Peak Performers
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The only career series designed expressly to turn passions into paychecks! The Careers for You series inspires career explorers to look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. Each book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
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Careers for Extroverts and Other Gregarious Types lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living - including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
Careers for Patriotic Types & Others Who Want To Serve Their Country
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Careers for Patriotic Types & Others Who Want to Serve Their Country provides practical advice on deciding which calling is for you, along with first-hand accounts of everyday routines, information on working conditions of selected jobs, and a list of resources to help you get your foot in the door. Let Careers for Patriotic Types & Others Who Want to Serve Their Country put you on the path to a dynamic and rewarding career.
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Careers for Geniuses and Other Gifted Types lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living - including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
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Careers for Scientific Types and Others with Inquiring Minds lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living - including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
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Careers for Scientific Types and Others with Inquiring Minds lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living - including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
Careers for Persuasive Types & Others who Won't Take No for an Answer
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Put your power of persuasion to work! Do you consider yourself a good problem solver? Can you always see both sides of a dilemma? Are you the kind of person who enjoys leading a team? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are a persuasive type--now all you need is an occupation that puts your unique talent to use. Careers for Persuasive Types & Others Who Won't Take No for an Answer provides all the information you need to get started on landing the job of your dreams, including inside information on everyday routines of selected jobs, working conditions within the field, and alternate sources to enhance your job search.
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Careers for Homebodies and Other Independent Souls lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living - including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
Careers for Puzzle Solvers & Other Methodical Thinkers
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Careers for Puzzle Solvers & Other Methodical Thinkers lets you explore the job market through the unique lens of your own interest. It reveals dozens of ways to pursue your passion for solving the unsolvable and make a living - including the training and education needed to polish your hobby and interest into a satisfying career.
Jan Goldberg is a professional writer and credentialed teacher from Glenview, Illinois, United States. She has authored 55 books and more than 800 articles on education and career development.
Background
Jan Goldberg was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. She is daughter of Sam and Sylvia (Tulsky) Lefkovitz.
Goldberg came to a love of reading early. Visits to the book bindery where her grandfather worked “produced a magic combination of sights and smells” that Goldberg commented to SATA have remained vivid in her memory even as an adult. “Childhood was filled with composing poems and stories, reading books, and playing library,” the author also remembered.
Education
School newspapers in both elementary and high school provided Jan Goldberg with an outlet for her writing, and after she enrolled at Roosevelt University, her part-time job at the school’s College of Business Administration further honed her talent for clear, concise prose. She got a Bachelor of Arts degree at Roosevelt University in elementary education.
Jan Goldberg is a nonfiction writer who specializes in helping young job-seekers combine their unique skills and personality types into a rewarding job or career. Although trained as an educator, Goldberg decided instead to embark upon a career as a freelance journalist, and through her efforts to successfully establish her own career she realized the need for interesting, engaging books on the subject of career development. Her prolific output, which includes such books as Careers for Competitive Spirits and Other Peak Performers, Great Jobs for Computer Science Majors, Opportunities in Horticulture Careers, and Careers for Homebodies and Other Independent Souls, attests to Goldberg’s creative approach to one of a young adult’s most important concerns: What do I want to be when I grow up? In a review of Great Jobs for Computer Science Majors in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, writer Jim Clarkson praised the book as “an excellent resource... More than just a book about career paths, Goldberg provides a wealth of information about selfassessment and job search.”
Graduating from college with a degree in elementary education, Goldberg eventually embarked on a career as a freelance writer and contributed a number of articles about career development to magazines. Soon she was working with educational publishers such as Scott Foresman and Addison-Wesley, while her magazine submissions had expanded to feature articles in such periodicals as Parenting Magazine and Complete Woman. By 2000 Goldberg could list over four hundred published articles to her credit.
In addition to her work for magazines, Goldberg joined with vocational publisher VGM Career Horizons to produce nonfiction books focusing on her area of expertise: the job search. In her 1995 work Careers in Journalism, she speaks with authority on the different directions available to writers - technical writers, business writers, electronic media writers, editors, freelance journalists, etc. - and discusses each of these fields in detail. In addition to noting salary ranges, job descriptions, and industry overviews, Goldberg also includes interviews with journalism professionals, all of which combine to provide “some good practical advice about getting started” in a journalism career, according to Voice of Youth Advocates contributor Christine Miller. Comparing Careers in Journalism with other, more narrowly focused vocational guidebooks on the same subject, Miller dubbed Goldberg’s work “no ordinary so-you-want-to-be-a-reporter book.” Related books by Goldberg include 1997’s Real People Working in Communications, a volume in VGM’s “On the Job” series that Kliatt reviewer Paula Rohrlick called “Useful for all [library] career collections.”
While some of Goldberg’s career guides take a traditional approach, her contributions to the “Careers for You” series published by VGM Career Horizons are by contrast unique. With titles like Careers for Color Connoisseurs and Other Visual Types, Careers for Class Clowns and Other Engaging Types, and Careers for Courageous People and Other Adventurous Types, Goldberg provides a “good starting place for students and others who are just starting to think about what kind of work they’d like to do,” according to Rohrlick in another Kliatt review. In Careers for Class Clowns, readers are encouraged to examine their interests before making a career choice, and the comedic-inclined are presented with such vocational options as comedian, juggler, magic and other performance, while Careers for Courageous People tempts risk-takers with everything from an astronaut to the beekeeper to a law enforcement officer. Goldberg’s approach to career choices in her “Careers for You” titles still offer the same factual detail with regard to job outlook, job description, and working conditions as her more traditional books, but she also “convey[s] enthusiastically the possibilities that exist” in the modem workplace, in the Rohrlick’s opinion.
In addition to building her own career in the field of vocational self-help publishing, Goldberg has combined her talent for writing with her love of teaching by designing presentations that provide her audience with the nuts and bolts of making a go of a career in freelance writing in both magazines and book-length nonfiction. Besides working with adult groups, she also organizes and presents workshops for young adults and children who want help developing their personal reading and writing skills. Furthermore, her work with co-author Miriam Adderholdt of the highly praised Perfectionism: What’s Bad about Being Too Good? helps today’s over-achieving teens break the cycle of perfectionism that often blocks efforts to pursue long-term goals such as developing new skills.
Jan Goldberg is a contributor to books published by Publications International (Lincolnwood), including Sister, 1999. Grandmother, 1999, and Friend, 1999; reviser for Horizon in My Pocket, Camp Fire Boys and Girls (Kansas City).
She is also a contributor to textbooks, teacher’s manuals, and other educational publications for Scott Foresman, Addison-Wesley, and General Learning Corporation. Con-tributor to periodicals, including Career World, American Careers, Parenting, Bloomsbury Review, Correspondent, Friendly Exchange, and Successful Student.
Achievements
Jan Goldberg's books are appreciated by young readers and critics. Several of Goldberg’s books have been translated into Chinese.
(Great Jobs For... Each book in this series helps students...)
1998
Membership
Jan Goldberg is a member of National Writer’s Union, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and American Society of Journalists and Authors.
National Writer’s Union
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United States
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
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United States
American Society of Journalists and Authors
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United States
Interests
reading, puzzles, time with family
Connections
Jan Goldberg married a teacher Lawrence Goldberg on August 19, 1977. They have three children: Sherri Cohn, Deborah Sattley, Marci Barth (stepdaughter).
