3. Career Aptitude Testing

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The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love

For those who long for their "dream job," a dose of wisdom from those who've found theirs. As the long-time host of a radio show devoted to helping people find work they love, Maureen Anderson has often invited listeners in to hear firsthand accounts of people who not only relish their work, but live without regret. "The Career Clinic" is filled with intimate, revealing, inspiring stories of career transitions that led to fulfilment, meaning, and peace... and offers suggestions for how others can make them too. Readers will learn how to find their place in the world, have fun, and say, "Yes!" to what truly makes them happy.

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Career Secret Sauce; 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career

Career Secret Sauce provides a roadmap to help young people launch their careers on a successful path. The core strategies come from the author's 30-year career rising from clerk to CEO and are augmented with profiles of nine additional exemplary individuals.

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The 7 Steps Career Workbook

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Career, Aptitude and Selection Tests: Match Your IQ, Personality and Abilities to Your Ideal Career.

With the wide range of jobs currently on the market, it is often difficult for job seekers to pinpoint exactly what they want to do. Now, in its second edition, this no-nonsense workbook points readers in the right direction. With a range of IQ tests and searching questionnaires, it helps job seekers to work out what area of work they should be focusing on, by identifying their interests and strengths, and scientifically interpreting which jobs they are suited to. Compiled by a psychometric testing specialist and bestselling author, this book has three main aims: careers guidance, preparation and personal performance improvement. It works on the principle that self knowledge enables readers to relate their personal characteristics to career opportunities. At the same time, it provides an opportunity to prepare for the types of psychometric tests likely to be encountered while job seeking. And finally, it aims to improve performance by demonstrating how to apply aptitudes and personal qualities at work.

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What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Guide for Job-Hunters and Career Changers Workbook

"What Color Is Your Parachute?" is a favourite book for job hunters and career changers. This handy workbook assists readers in targeting their ideal work situation, by focusing on applying personal interests into quality job skills, while maintaining the spiritual or emotional fulfillment needed to keep us happy and motivated in the workplace. When completed, the workbook gives a full picture of your ideal job situation.

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type

Already a classic in the genre, Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find truly satisfying work. Do What You Are introduces Personality Type - how you process information, make decisions and interact with the world around you - and shows you which of the 16 types describes you best. It lists dozens of occupations that are popular with people of your type. Then, using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type, it shows you step-by- step how to use your unique strengths to customise your job search, ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time. And if you plan to stay in your job, Do What You Are provides savvy advice for getting the most out of your current career. Every other career guide offers generic, one-size-fits-all advice. But because it is based on personality type, Do What You Are helps you determine what you need to be more successful and satisfied.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future

Drawing on the timeless principles of the bestselling career book "What Color Is Your Parachute?," this adaptation provides high-school students with a focused guide for choosing a career.

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Aptitude, Personality & Motivation Tests: Assess Your Potential and Plan Your Career

Many employers use tests routinely. Reliable indicators of what potential employees can contribute to an organization, they also give candidates valuable insights into their own abilities. Best-selling author Jim Barrett here presents aptitude, personality and motivation tests that allow the reader to build a personal profile of attributes and skills. This knowledge can then be used as preparation for selection or assessment tests, for career guidance and planning and for personal awareness and effectiveness. Types of test include visual reasoning, numerical reasoning, verbal analysis, sequential reasoning, spatial recognition and vocabulary. This valuable reference tool provides practice for the real tests, and can help anyone discover their true vocation.

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Gifts & Talents for Teenagers: Discovering Your Unique Strengths

This book helps you to recognize and use your innate gifts and talents by understanding how learning styles and strengths can work together. We each need to identify and overcome obstacles; develop strengths and manage weaknesses and see how our own innate personality can connect to careers that honour one's self.

Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage

Based on a Gallup study of over two million people who have excelled in their careers, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS uses a revolutionary programme to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths. The product of a twenty-five year, multi-million pound effort to identify the most prevalent human talents, the StrengthsFinder programme introduces thirty-four talents or 'themes' and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. Each copy of the book contains a unique password that gives the reader access to the StrengthsFinder Profile, a Web-based interview that analyses people's instinctive reactions and immediately presents them with their five most dominant strengths. Once readers know which of the thirty-four talent themes dominates their personality, they can make practical applications at three levels: as an individual, as a manager and within an organisation. Readers learn what kind of environments will allow them to flourish; how managers can better cultivate their employers' talents; and how almost all organisations inhibit the talents of their people and need to change.

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