Guide to Your Career, 4th Edition: How to Turn Your Interests into a Career You Love (Princeton Review: Guide to Your Career) [Paperback]

Alan B. Bernstein (Author), Nicholas Schaffzin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Princeton Review: Guide to Your Career | Publication Date: June 27, 2000

A satisfying career takes more than simply knowing what interests you. Besides considering what you like to do, you must also recognize how you like to do it. In other words, you need to identify your career style.

Career counselor Alan B. Bernstein helps you identify your interests and style by guiding you through the Birkman Career Style Summary.™ You will answer a series of questions about your personal preferences and then score yourself to identify your Birkman™ colors on a grid. Your Birkman™ colors represent your career interests and styles -- not only what you like to do but also how you like to do it.

The Princeton Review Guide to Your Career features:
Profiles of more than 175 career opportunities, from accounting to zoology
First-hand insight from professionals in each field
Easy organization so that you can find all careers compatible with your needs and desires
Hottest new careers for the twenty-first century, including Internet manager and business valuator
Updated career profiles, including salary ranges and major associations

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"This is an emotionally intelligent guide to career planning -- an original, genuinely helpful handbook to planning your life."
-- DANIEL GOLEMAN, author of Emotional Intelligence  

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A satisfying career takes more than simply knowing what interests you. Besides considering what you like to do, you must also recognize how you like to do it. In other words, you need to identify your career style.

Career counselor Alan B. Bernstein helps you identify your interests and style by guiding you through the Birkman Career Style Summary.? You will answer a series of questions about your personal preferences and then score yourself to identify your Birkman? colors on a grid. Your Birkman? colors represent your career interests and styles -- not only what you like to do but also how you like to do it.

The Princeton Review Guide to Your Career features:
Profiles of more than 175 career opportunities, from accounting to zoology
First-hand insight from professionals in each field
Easy organization so that you can find all careers compatible with your needs and desires
Hottest new careers for the twenty-first century, including Internet manager and business valuator
Updated career profiles, including salary ranges and major associations

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Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review; 4th edition (June 27, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375756205
• ISBN-13: 978-0375756207
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,278,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty insightful, May 29, 2001

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This review is from: Guide to Your Career, 4th Edition: How to Turn Your Interests into a Career You Love (Princeton Review: Guide to Your Career) (Paperback)

I found this book to be quite interesting. I especially like the survey that defines what 'color' you are, in terms of one's potential career interests and styles. I was a BLUE-BLUE. It seemed accurate for myself, but others that have taken the test, have not always agreed.

Anyhow, I didn't give the book a 5, because I don't think a book can really tell you what you should do. Career books are at most, good guides. Mostly, you'll need to do a lot of research and soul searching before you can find a job that is suited to you. But, I can say that this book helped to put more perspective on the job hunt. As a recent entrant to the workforce and still discovering what I "want to be," this book helped me to better understand the things that I should be looking for in my next job/career: organizational culture, level of interaction with others, types of skills, etc.

The color analysis is based on a tool developed by Birkman. You can basically find everything in this book on the Princeton Review's site, www.review.com. If you have access to the Internet, this is probably the better and cheaper route. The information is almost the same, with the exception with exercises on recalling some past memories (this is the same exercise that is touted in "What Color is your Parachute?").

One thing that I did not like about the book was that it was too restrictive. Although the colors are guides, it's easy to get stuck into thinking that because you're a certain color, you should stay away from certain jobs. Also, I had hoped that there would be more job profiles. But, I guess you can just about find more job profiles on other websites like.

Happy hunting!