A great personality test along with guidance and fitting to a choice of types of jobs to fit you

I just finished talking to an executive who derived great benefit from taking the test I suggested he might consider.

He not only derived more insight to who he is but also greater understanding of what career/business he was most suitable.  Getting to know more what fit his personality was invaluable. 

He recommends you take the "full test" (about $60 or so).  He loved the in-depth guidance that was included with it, including questions and planning for what he might do.

The site (which I have no connection with) is:  16Personalities.com.

Many people take tests and then do little with them, but this will take you all the way up and over the hill, with its substantial followup materials.

(My write up on the site, under Choosing A Career Or Business is:  What Shall I Do? - A Packet To Forward My Search.)

Reading widely and being creative in creating the best career for you

If you’re “older” (over 35) and you are seeking the best career for yourself or in “job transition” (currently an unemployed “consultant”), then, methinks, it is best to start your new search by being creative from the highest perspective first.

That means you would use the classic What Color Is Your Parachute? book for sure, but that you would read the HBR Guide To Changing Your Career - Stop Settling, Explore Possibilities, And Make The Switch.

Yes, it is a compilation of inch-deep articles by knowledgeable individuals, but it is also a beginning for a roadmap that can be constructed more deeply by following the authors “down the rabbit hole” to more depth - perhaps to books, perhaps to more in-depth articles, and perhaps even to courses or workshops by them, perhaps to...

For instance, from Brian Fetherstonhaugh’s short article, you would consider his book The Lonfg View: Career Strategies to Start Strong, Read High, And Go Far (he is global chief talent officer of the Ogilvy Group.). Or Bill Barnett’s book The Strategic Career: Let Business Principles Guide You.

It is true that this will require you to sift through and to be willing to jump into the confusion of too many concepts and how to apply them - but isn’t that the very talent you are selling to your employer: to talk all the disparate facts out there and to put them together in an organized manner into strategies that work (and being willing to be in ambiguity land and vagueness, persisting all the way through to where it begins to make sense and then on to creating something of value from it all?

Learn now, pay only a % of income for two years (computer...)

Lambda School teaches you now, all online, without tuition now, and then, only if you make 50K+/year, 17% of your income for two years.

This is the school of the future, I believe, where we base everything on results (and creating the benefits sufficient to be able to pay from a part of the gain!).

I would hope to do the same for The Life Management Alliance, where people, later, “pay” other people’s tuition, but only after they know they have made their lives so much better that they can afford, and want to, “pay if forward.”

If this strikes your interest, either directly or just conceptually, take a look at Lambda School.

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You cannot live a better life, unless you do what is necessary to learn how to live a better life.  Relying on random chance, or hope, does not work.

So the question is “how much is your life worth to you?”.  Will you invest the number of hours needed to elevate it?   (See Allocating My Time To Life  Learning/Implementation.)

Career book review: Outstanding - not only on the vital decision on which career but also on productivity

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Here is my review on Amazon, for the book The Career Manifesto:

I write peripherally on selecting one’s career and write extensively on life and life productivity. Yet I found this book to do a marvelously clear job in helping one select the right career and place to work, but also surprisingly how to be productive in life and in your career - both of which must thrive if one is to be happy.

Originally, I was going to compare this book for a few individuals seeking new careers with What Color Is Your Parachute?, but I do not think it is an either/or choice but a both/and. And I think I would read Career Manifesto first and do its exercises on life and career, wherein he uses very practical (doable) formats.

I very much liked the straightforward, clear, uncluttered advice related to productivity (and wished I could write as quickly and cleanly on each habit, strategy, and tool. He gives specific advice on what to do or use, though I would prefer Todoist over Microsoft To Do (use a search engine to compare the two).

I will use this as an outstanding book for all ages, along with Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits book and Loehr’s The Power Of Full Engagement, though I like the approach in my Kindle book (Life Value Productivity) where “life value” is used as the criteria for ALL of what we do.

A great, practical, highly beneficial, to the point book!

Keith D. Garrick

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Which "coach" training is better? Is it a pipe dream?

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SELLING HOPE...?

It seems there is more money in training coaches than actually doing coaching.  And the "I wanta help people" noble motived individuals often fall by the wayside, failing to follow through on the training or their dream.  The exhortations and visions of great success fill the mind with dope (actually dopamine) for hope...and few succeed in this approach in life.  (My whole site is committed, at no monetary benefit to me, to having you, instead, actually "build" yourself and your life on a practical platform that doesn't promise instant success but, if you follow the key path specified, you cannot possibly not succeed in life, except in dire circumstances.  Also see the Life Coaching page and follow the links.  If you are not following the advice and practices that life coaches suggest, you are not at all likely to be a good coach!!!!)


ASSURING A GOOD DECISION...

So... if you really want to proceed, I'd first suggest that you read at least 4 books on coaching (pick the best of the "coaching" books on Amazon) first and then decide, with others' input, if you really want to pursue this and will pursue it to actual completion.   Please DO NOT skip this step, as such "checking for feasibility" is a key must in proceeding toward a life of success!!! (More pre-investigation, until you gain total clarity on this, is what you should actually do - you'd go a lot further than this brief "pointing" article!  For instance, you might read, on the site:  Choosing The Right Career/Business - Measure Twice, Cut Once.)


TWO ALTERNATIVES

The High Performanc Coach Training, with Brendon Burchard, which I've taken, at a cost of $10,000 plus cost of getting there and staying there. I'd assess this as pretty good, but I would guess that both programs have material you're used to (and already think you "know").  There are some good "role-playing", "practicing" sessions in it.

Jack Canfield's Train The Trainer, which I've not taken, at a cost of  $3495, but online, with the approximate same number of hours, but in videos.

I cannot be an expert in making the best choice here, but it does seem to me that the latter alternative makes more sense, plus it has a well known, highly credible name behind it (that would help in marketing, I think). [Of course, at this point, Burchard might be better known...]

Again, on such major moves you should, if you are to be wise in life, use The Carpenter's Rule:  "Measure twice, cut once." (See The Life Decisions Book, which is actually a reading list of a few key pieces on my site, that may be turned into a book if I decide it would be better.)

[I have no affiliation or financial interest in any of those organizations.  I only want what is best for you.]

Good "luck" and good fortune to you in your decisions in life,

Keith
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