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We use a number of abbreviations and other terms that are distinct to our CareerLeader family of programs (CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™) and/or our books. Here's a list of them for your reference:

360 Feedback: the option to gather anonymous feedback from others about your abilities, along the lines of the Management and Professional Abilities Profile test, below.

Achilles' Heels: refers to several common profiles that we have identified which can potentially derail your career. This work was the basis for our second book, The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000).

BCII: the Business Career Interest Inventory, see below.

Business Ability Groups: refers to three groupings of abilities tracked by the Management and Professional Abilities Profile test: Problem Solving, Taking Initiative and Interpersonal Effectiveness. We discuss how to improve your abilities in areas that may benefit from strengthening.

Business Career Interest Inventory (BCII): a test we developed first released as part of Discovering Your Career in Business in 1997, and now an integral part of CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™. The BCII helps you to uncover which of 8 common business activities that we have identified are of most interest to you.

Business Career Profiles: term we use for those business careers, like sales or production and operations, which we investigate and dissect in detail in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™.

Career Interest Pattern: a graphic way of representing your Business Career Interest Inventory results in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™.

Career Path Matches: a summary report CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™, showing your relative level of "fit" or "match" with each of the Business Career Profiles (see above) that we have studied.

Cultural Dimensions: term used in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™ to describe some elements of corporate culture that we have broken down into corresponding elements of each of our three tests.

CultureMatch: used in CareerLeader® and TalentRetainer™ (but not in CareerLeader-College™) and based on the Business Career Interest Inventory test, this is another approach to corporate culture, and shows in detail how you fit in with 4 key elements.

Discovering Your Career in Business (Addison-Wesley, 1997). Our first book, which focuses on how you can discover -- using our proprietary test the Business Career Interest Inventory included on diskette -- what your true interests in business work are.

Entrepreneurial Attributes: a scale used in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™ which is derived from the Business Career Interest Inventory, comparing your responses to those of entrepreneurs, to see how "entrepreneurial" your responses are.

Executive Summary: a report summarizing results from all three of your tests in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™.

Insider Interview: many of the Business Career Profiles in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™ have an interview with someone experienced in the field, which we call an Insider Interview.

Management and Professional Abilities Profile (MPAP): the third test in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™, which measures your business-relevant abilities.

Management and Professional Rewards Profile (MPRP): the second test in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™, which measures those reward values your want to "get" from your work.

Maximum Success: Changing the 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead: original hard cover title of our second book, The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000), see below.

MPAP: see Management and Professional Abilities Profile above.

MPRP: see Management and Professional Rewards Profile above.

Personal High: in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™ some of your Business Career Interest Inventory results may be flagged as a Personal High, indicating their special importance to you.

The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000): our second book, focusing common failings, their psychological underpinnings, and what you can do to correct them.

Your Match: each of the Business Career Profiles in CareerLeader®, CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™ have a report which allows you to review in detail how you compare to the criteria for success and satisfaction in that career path.