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The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success
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| Part No: | 0684823993 |
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- ISBN13: 9780684823997
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DO YOU JUMP OUT OF BED EVERY MORNING AND RUSH TO A JOB YOU LOVE?
Or is the work you once enjoyed now just a way to pay the bills? Perhaps you're even doubting your career choice altogether. Let The Pathfinder guide you to a more engaging, fulfilling work life. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by Rockport Institute, an innovative and award-winning career-counseling network that has changed the lives of over 10,000 people, The Pathfinder offers invaluable advice and more than 100 self-tests and diagnostic tools that will help you choose an entirely new career -- or view a current job from a new, more positive perspective. You'll learn:
* How to design your new career direction step by step so that it fits your talents, personality, needs, goals, values, and is, at the same time, practical and attainable
* How to deal successfully with the "yeah but" voices in your head that keep you going back to the same old ill-fitting job, day after day
* How to land the perfect job in your new field, plus tips on writing a really exceptional résumé, personal marketing, and networking (even for those who hate to network)
Whether you're a seasoned professional in search of a career change or a beginner just entering the working world, you want to make the right choices from the beginning. No matter where you are in your journey, if you want work to be more of a dance than a drag, The Pathfinder will expertly coach you through the process of designing a career you will love.
Author Nicholas Lore uses the techniques of his career-guidance network, the Rockport Institute, to make The Pathfinder a substitute for a great job counselor. Through goal setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different temperaments and decision-making methods, so he provides individualized advice to suit each one. He also understands that creating a new career requires courage as well as desire, so The Pathfinder devotes plenty of space to motivation and overcoming fears. While anyone looking for a new career will find direction with this guide, people who didn't know they were looking may decide to start once they go through Lore's probing self-examination process.
| Not "like new" | 2010-08-27 | 3 / 5 |
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| This book was rated as like new, and had highlighted areas from a previous owner |
| Good book, but liked "Find Your Perfect Job" better | 2010-08-20 | 4 / 5 |
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| This is a good book with sound advice. And we can all use as much career advice as we can find! My main quibble is the format of this book -- it's long, nearly 400 pages!! I personally found Find Your Perfect Job to be more effective because it is short and to-the-point, yet still crammed with helpful advice. Took way less time to go through. Pathfinder has long chatty passages, and I'm personally not interested in reading a book per se, instead I prefer a job-search tool. This is the other book I'm talking about, it just came out this year. Find Your Perfect Job: The Inside Guide for Young Professionals |
| thorough, based on real-life experience, great tools | 2010-07-30 | 5 / 5 |
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I saw this book recommended in another career book and got it from the library.....Using it for six weeks really impressed me, and now I am purchasing it for my own.
What I like about it/ why it is so useful for me:
positive, yet realistic attitude and approach
helps support my belief that I CAN have a job I love that suits me really well
fascinating exploration into how to make choices, what is free choice, so helpful
evident that it has been written from extensive experience counselling others;
feels very grounded in practical experience
GREAT and simple tools for getting in touch with wants and needs(I'm using them in all areas of my life) AND translating that into action
tools and inspiration that will be useful for me for many years, I can come back to it again and again, a rich resource
great simple guide to writing a strong resume
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| Better than "what color is your parachute" | 2010-07-15 | 5 / 5 |
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The author clearly shows mastered experience in career counseling (in fact, he has his own professional institute called "Rockport Institute").
The book is a bit long, but like a Harry Potter book, it's just filled with life experiences and engaging metaphorical examples with easy to understand lessons and exercises.
CONS: he does try to market "Pathfinder" a bit too much like it's some kind of mystic tool you got to buy, but I'd just ignore that and get on to the life stories. Other than that everything else is pretty good.
While "What color is your parachute" continually gets updated too often listening to every little nitpick, it loses out on essential information and compensates through short (often redundant religious) information that doesn't really help. Plus, the links to websites provided aren't that great ... most of the time it's mediocre stuff made from the 90's (no html 5, just really old fashion flash or out-of-date surveys or questionnaires).
BOTTOM LINE:
If I had to spend $20 on a career book, I'd choose "Pathfinder" by Nicholas Lore, career coach extraordinaire over any other book (or school counselor for that matter) any day!
This book is perfect for high schoolers, lost college students, (or any student for that matter) or person who got laid off and needs to be on the rebound to learn how to market oneself. This book has it all! |
| NO GAMES JUST SUCCESS | 2010-05-26 | 5 / 5 |
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| This book is a winner! It is not for those who really don't want to hear the truth, do the work, and get over their negative connotations! That having been said, I LOVED IT. I found it so refreshing that someone, although speaking in a highly comprehensible manner, made me feel like I had to know I was worth what I was looking for. No games in this book (many exercises though)! Use the time you have to read this book wisely as the exercises become an exploration of your true intentions. For people interested in really making a great career I also read, love and recommend Meagan Holub's The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist. I'm not a massage therapist in any respect but her book was STILL A VALUE! I learned how to take my passion and skill, own it and take it the next level. Armed with these two masterpieces you can't fail! Unless of course all you do is read, you have to DO. |
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