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Frequently Asked Questions About CareerLeader®,
CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™
How does the online program of CareerLeader
differ from your book Discovering Your Career in Business?
CareerLeader is a comprehensive self-assessment
program combined with detailed information on real-world ways to
express your interests and motivations in business work. This program
comprises seven major steps:
- Assessing what your interests in
business work are (and aren't), including an analysis of your
entrepreneurial attributes.
- Discovering which values in the
working world motivate you the most (ie, money, recognition, helping
others, etc.).
- Analyzing your business-relevant
abilities, focusing in on what your strengths and weaknesses are
and how you compare to your peers.
- Integrating the data from the three
areas above and bringing it all together into a comprehensive
picture.
- Offering detailed analyses on more
than 25 major business career paths, examining what work interests
and values they typically offer (and don't offer), and what skills
are most critical for success in each field. We'll then tell you
exactly how well you match up with this field, and why.
- Stepping into the corporate world,
using two separate analysis techniques we help you to examine
aspects of corporate "cultures" and how they are likely to affect
you. This knowledge will help you find the corporate environment
in which you are most likely to excel.
- Lastly, we'll help you to analyze
your career "Achilles' Heels" so that you can try to
unmask any bad habits before you inadvertently sabotage your career.
Discovering Your Career in Business
includes an earlier version of the Business Career Interest Inventory®,
along with interpretive material for that. CareerLeader offers additional
interpretive material and an updated "engine," reflecting our continuing
research. It is also directly tied into our algorithms which recommend
specific business careers based on your interest patterns
The book offers a wealth of real-life
examples of individuals making decisions based on this information;
this anecdotal information is not included in the online CareerLeader
program. It also offers several "active imagination" excercises
which may prove useful to you as you think about a career transition.
Overall, we feel that Discovering
Your Career in Business and CareerLeader complement each other
in many ways. If you purchase CareerLeader, we suggest you consider
the book as well and so we offer it at a discount. The retail cost
of the book is $22, and it is available in most major bookstores.
If you wish to purchase a copy of Discovering Your Career in
Business along with CareerLeader®, we will ship a
copy to residents of the United States at our cost, $12; this is
a direct order from our publisher and takes about two weeks to deliver.
Alternately, you could order via Amazon.com for $17.60 plus shipping;
we'll provide links to the ordering page on their site. Due to the
costly international book shipment rates, we must refer all international
shipment orders to Amazon.com.
We're very proud of our book and
on its own it is a very useful career interests tool, but it is
one test, whereas CareerLeader is a comprehensive program, including
a suite of tests and various kinds of data that break out from your
personalized results.
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