"Now What?" Career Development & Occupational Well-Being: The Fifth Dimension: Making Choices, Managing Stress, & Creating Balance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781499725018)

Dr. Chet Rispoli takes a unique holistic health approach to career development. Holistic health focuses on the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. This includes not only addressing career decision-making as an integral part of our health and well-being, but also addressing the critical issues of managing the stress that accompanies change and creating the career/life balance we prefer. There are very few decisions in life that will have a greater impact on your future and lifestyle than your career choice; it should be an informed one. Dr. Rispoli combines his forty years' experience in the career development field with a doctorate in health counseling that allow him to take this unique holistic health approach to career development.

This book teaches you how to make career choices that will be in your long-term best interest and have a direct impact on your health. In easy-to-follow language, he presents a three-tiered approach:

• A systematic process for making informed career choices
• An examination of your stress levels and the development of effective coping mechanisms
• A health profile and strategy for change that will help you balance your work, family, and personal lives to attain greater overall health

Whether you're new to the job market or making a career change for more satisfaction, this book provides a novel approach to achieving career goals.

About the Author

Dr. Chet Rispoli has a doctorate in health counseling and forty years' experience in helping people achieve career success and satisfaction.

He has directed career development departments at Temple University, the Community College of Philadelphia, and Spring Garden College, as well as served as coordinator of cooperative education at Drexel University. He has assisted thousands of people through career assessments and advising, workshops and seminars, and college courses.

Rispoli has also served as the employment manager at RCA and consulted on career development for a variety of organizations, including AstraZeneca, Meridian Bank, Bethlehem Steel, and the US Department of Health and Human Services.

His doctorate in health counseling drives his unique holistic approach to career planning. With a keen understanding of how occupational well-being is an integral part of a person's overall health, he also works with clients in the associated areas of stress management and work-life balance.