Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do

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Customer Reviews:

The best assessment I've found, and the easiest! [Posted on 2008-11-16]
As a Career Consultant for the past 14 years, I deal with assessment instruments all the time. Shoya Zichy's "Career Match" is simply the best one I've found: it's the easiest to administer and score (the questions take 10 minutes to answer), the results are unerringly correct, and all the information provided based upon the results is comprehensive and totally useful. Plus, it doesn't resort to psycho-babble, and it doesn't need "professional" interpretation, so anyone can pick it up and immediately benefit from it. Cheers to Shoya Zichy and her co-author for putting together a completely enjoyable and marvelously helpful book!

J's review [Posted on 2008-11-16]
The book allows you to reflect on your personality type while also focussing on secondary tendancies, which provide a well-rounded perspective. The job match information is helpful.

Great, quick guide [Posted on 2008-11-24]
Great guide that can quickly give you insightful information about yourself. It is nice because you do not have to read the entire book, just
the parts that apply to you. Easy to use.

If you want to pick a career that fits you perfectly, there are better books [Posted on 2008-12-09]
This is an enjoyable, well-written book. But basically, it is just a twist on personality type. Instead of using the usual 4-letter Myers-Briggs types, like INTP, it gives you a color for your personality. This is an enjoyable way to think of yourself, but it is just another career book with a cute idea for the casual career seeker. If you want to have a career that is going to give you a high-level of success and satisfaction, you are going to dig deeper than this book. I use three books with my clients, who are people very seriously committed to picking the right career. The first is Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. This book has been around for a few years and is still the best book on personality type and work. I highly recommend it and consider it much more useful than Career Match.

By far the most powerfully useful career design books are by the man who created the field of career coaching back in the early 1980s, when the word coaching was otherwise just used for sports. Nicholas Lore founded Rockport Institute, probably the best career coaching service for people seeking the perfect career, and invented many of the leading-edge tools and methods in his field. He says to have both success and fulfillment, you need to choose work that fits you naturally. Books like Career Match focus on your personality, but Lore says that is not enough. You also have to understand your natural talents, what functions you do naturally and easily, what subject matter would be interesting enough, how important is it to you to have a purpose, a mission or make a difference and some other areas you want to get right, or, like many, you may feel you have chosen the wrong career.

His first book, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success is probably the best career design guide ever written. It takes you through choosing the perfect career for you from beginning to end. Read some of the review of it and you will see that many others agree with me. His new book, Now What?: The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career is for people under 30, students and people fairly new to the career world. The author knows his audience. Many people under 30 want their reading fast, lean and to the point. More straightforward and streamlined, than The Pathfinder, it doesn't have as much depth on some important subjects such as what to do when you get stuck, how to make the best decisions. But it is completely practical and designed to turn you into a career detective, observing what you do best and uncovering the best clues about what would make a career fit you perfectly.

I recommend you get all three of these excellent books. After all, picking your career could be the most important decision you will ever make. Most people just put up with their work. Don't let that happen to you! If you have already decided on your career direction, the old classic What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers is, I think, the best job hunting book but not so good for picking a fitting career.

Very helpful [Posted on 2008-12-13]
Quick, targeted approach. Just the right amount of information. Let's you get to the bottom line quickly and then provides additional reading to expand on the personal analysis.

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