Game Plan: An Insider's Guide to Effective Career Assessment - Paperback

by Dean R. deGroot (Author), Liz Willis (Author)

Specialize in Career Assessment and Advance Your Career

What's it like to specialize in career assessment and provide this essential service to your clients? Game Plan: An Insider's Guide to Effective Career Assessment offers the inside scoop. In this practical, in-depth guide, you'll find:

• Tips and strategies for building your assessment capabilities, identifying your strengths, and growing your professional network.
• An integrated process for assessing your clients that consistently gets results by encouraging client buy-in, involvement, and ownership.
• Solutions to common assessment challenges, including boosting client self-confidence and dealing with your own and your clients' fear and anxiety.
• Seven full case studies showcasing the value of assessment, plus numerous other author and client stories showing the assessment process in action.
• Special chapters on work values, workplace bullying, and job fit you won't find in typical books on career development or career assessment.

Game Plan is perfect for career professionals at all levels-graduate students just starting out, practitioners looking to expand their knowledge of assessments, and instructors seeking to bring real-world perspectives to their students. Includes end-of-chapter discussion points that draw on the readers' own experience with assessment and encourage further growth and exploration.