Citation
(2005), "The Penguin Careers Guide", Education + Training, Vol. 47 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2005.00447cae.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
The Penguin Careers Guide
Jan WidmerPenguin, 2004£12.990141013761
The Penguin Careers Guide covers more than 300 careers, from accountant to webmaster. It provides unbiased information about entry requirements, examinations, professional qualifications, training, conditions and, most importantly, the personal qualities needed for each career.
Book reviewers commonly comment, of guides that provide contact listings and website addresses, that they could more easily be kept up to date if they were published on the web. But The Penguin Careers Guide contains much detail - such as insights into specific fields of work and person specifications - that would not be easy to find on the web.
On journalism, for example, the guide correctly points out that first degrees in journalism "are unlikely to give their graduates any real advantage over [other] entry routes for either newspaper or periodical journalism. The same applies to media courses. Editors may take candidates who have shown breadth of interest by studying disciplines other than journalism/communications/media. Vocational training then follows the degree."
The book contains advice on work-life balance initiatives, career breaks, job sharing and, new to this twelfth edition, significant information on flexible working.
The guide includes plenty to interest anyone starting out after college or returning to work, looking for a full-time or part-time position, or wondering how to set up one's own business or finance one's studies.