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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Discovering Your Perfect Career

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As a tenured Human Resources professional, I found this book very insightful! I read it for my own benefit and to utilize with clients. This book offers a wide array of useful tools to assist the reader in identifying, creating and preparing for the next job opporutnity. This book encourages the reader to actully think about his/her true desires in a career and the steps to making it happen. This book is a great tool for those just entering the workforce and individuals interested in making a change! Enjoy!

There's probably no one who wouldn't find this book helpful, no matter their career or job status. Not everyone will go cover-to-cover, but there are sections of benefit to us all. The book takes first things first, focusing on self-knowledge as a foundation for finding and creating the "perfect career". It offers a rich array of tools to help in the quest, and points to a wealth of resources to help carry the search further. Carew has performed the service of organizing and amplifying the full range of questions whose answers provide the backdrop to any successful career and manages to not be the least superficial despite the wide angle through which "career" is examined.

This book can be extremely useful to anyone from high school age to senior citizen. Especially helpful to me were the boxed Insider Tips and the Least You Need to Know bullets at the end of each chapter. As a retired teacher I intend to use all the information I've gathered to launch my next career.

I am a consultant and career coach and am always looking for tools that will benefit my clients. This book takes the reader through a process of discovering themselves. The excercises and self-assessments are extremely helpful. The book helps you to understand what you really want out of life and out of your career so that you can make the best decisions for yourself. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is in career transition, anyone contemplating a career change, or to anyone who works with people who are in career transition.

Some of us are searching for the perfect mate, some of us for the perfect work. In this book, Rene Carew guides us gently but firmly towards the promised land of finding the best fitting career for each of us. It takes plenty of introspection and honesty, as well as determination, but she knows the steps to take. I found the book extremely welcoming and well-organized. You can proceed at your own pace, always working towards seeing yourself in relation to the great big world of careers. In order to find real fulfillment in work, we need to understand the "in here" as well as the "out there." This book enables us to do just that, and I am grateful for it.

Whether the reader is a student just beginning to contemplate possible careers, or someone stuck in a job rut and wondering "is that all there is?" this practical guide will provide encouragement, insight, and specifc steps to identifying a truly satisfying career. Having worked as a career counselor and taught career planning at UC, Berkeley, I welcome this new, user-friendly volume that engages the reader not just in career research, but in the self-research that is critcal to identifying one's calling vs. merely settling for a job. The book is filled with hands-on exercises, helpful hints, and specicfic recommendations to sustain one through the process of identifying the career of his or her dreams. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants work to be more than a four-letter word!

I can't tell you how many people have told me they hate their jobs, dislike their bosses or dread Mondays. Yet, when I ask what they are actually doing about it often all I hear is the sound of crickets chirping in the distance. This book is a great, engaging, easy to read, easy to use, informative, motivational tool to help you figure out what you should be doing and how to start doing it. It's as useful for the mid-career changer as it is for the recent graduate. I do a fair amount of career coaching myself and I recommend this book as a solid resource for others in the field, as well. If your job has you down, consider that this book costs less than your next anti-depressant refill! Do something good for yourself, get off the couch, buy this book and get on the road to your perfect career.

My husband and I are both 62 years old and we think that this Guide is a must-read resource for anyone who might want to re-enter the workforce after retirement or for pursuing a different career track during these challenging economic times. The Guide is comprehensive,thorough and user friendly. It provides excellent insights on career and workplace considerations. The many practical exercises the Guide offers really helped us clarify and prioritize the second career work we want to find. The Guide is a first-rate resource that we highly recommend to any serious career seekers !

Jocelyn amd Mike Collins

I found the book to be rather difficult to use. I felt that much more of the book could have been devoted to personality tests and relating them to your career. The tests that are included in the book are often shortened versions of what is available on the internet. If you are not very good at evaluating yourself this may be helpful, but I don't recommend it. The book plugs an on-line test at keirseycampbell.com repeatedly, even offering a discount coupon. I would say, just go straight to the website and take the tests there. They are much more comprehensive and take much less time.

I'm still searching for my perfect career, so I purchased this book after I read the reviews. I don't think it gave any real good answers. I'm still looking for a good career book now.