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Find Your Interests and Aptitudes
Here are some interest and aptitude-related books you should check out:
- What Color is Your Parachute?
- Choices for High School Graduate
- Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
- Test Your Own Job Aptitude: Exploring Your Career Potential
- Discover What You’re Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directory
- Career Counseling of College Students: An Empirical Guide to Strategies That Work
- Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations: Hands-on Applications for Practitioners
“What Color is Your Parachute?”
2000 edition. Richard N. Bolles.
Continues to provide tools for career choice and selfassessment of skills and preferences regarding people, setting, subjects and rewards in the job setting. Also includes pointers on job-hunting and interviewing.
“Choices for High School Graduate.”
Bryna J. Fireside, 2000.
Designed for the high school student trying to make important decisions about the future. In addition to college, the author covers many options for graduating high school seniors. An excellent resource for students and parents, this guide effectively illuminates and evaluates the numerous opportunities available to your people today.
“Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type”
Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century. Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron- Tieger, Barbara Tiger. 3rd Edition, April 2001. Little Brown & Company.
Has helped thousands of people find the job that suits their personality type best. Using workbook exercises, the book provides specific job search strategies, including information on how to harness the power of the Internet to conduct the most efficient and effective job search. It lists a wide array of occupations that are popular with your personality type, including today’s hottest career tracks in growth areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, health care, education, new media, and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples.
“Test Your Own Job Aptitude: Exploring Your Career Potential.”
James Barrett, Geoff Williams (Contributor), Jim Barrett. Penguin USA 1995.
Helps you to evaluate your abilities, personality and motivation and how to best match these with a career choice.
“Discover What You’re Best at: The National Career Aptitude System and Career Directory.”
Linda Gale (Preface), Barry Gale. Fireside, 1998.
Uses the National Career Aptitude System to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses in different areas and discover how these relate to specific career clusters.
“Career Counseling of College Students: An Empirical Guide to Strategies That Work.”
Darrell Anthony Luzzo (Editor), August 2000. American Psychological Association.
Presents more than 200 strategies for career counseling. Uses the latest theories and research to provide approaches proven to work in today’s college environment. Offers advice for counseling diverse populations. Discusses the pros and cons of career classes and workshops, and the emotional and spiritual facets of choosing a career.
“Career Counseling Models for Diverse Populations: Hands-on Applications for Practitioners.”
Nadene Peterson, Roberto Cortez Gonzalez. First Edition. 1999. Wadsworth Publishing Co.
This casebook is an excellent resource for counselors working with clients from diverse populations who have career concerns. It contains practical, up-to-date material which counselors will find useful in working with selected clients and describes a variety of career and vocational counseling models that can be used for diverse populations of all ages.