Description: "So what are you going to do with your major?" It's an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it--no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experiences for insights into your strengths and passions, design possible lives, and create goals destined to take you wherever you want to go. Using techniques and ideas that have guided thousands of college students to successful careers, Dr. Brooks will teach you to outsmart and outperform your competition, with more Wisdom Builders and an easily applied career development process. No matter what career you aspire to, You Majored in What? offers a practical, creative, and successful approach to finding your path to career fulfillment.
Brief description: Katharine Brooks, EdD, has been providing career services for more than twenty-five years, specializing in the career needs of college students and alumni in career transition. She has also worked with college students with attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities. Brooks has written numerous articles for career services professionals and students, focusing on the value of a liberal arts degree, positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Her article "Making the Most of Your Liberal Arts Degree" has appeared for many years in NACE's Job Choices for Business and Liberal Arts Students. Her expertise in career issues has been recognized in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, US News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cosmopolitan, the Associated Press, and CNN/Fortune. Brooks has a doctorate in Educational Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology, and a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from West Virginia University. Her bachelor's degree is in Sociology and Anthropology from Gettysburg College.