Game Plan: An Insider's Guide to Effective Career Assessment

by Dean R. DeGroot, Liz Willis

Overview

Specialize in Career Assessment and Advance Your Career

 

What's it like to specialize in career assessment and provide this essential service to your clients? Game Plan: An Insider's Guide to Effective Career Assessment offers the inside scoop. In this practical, in-depth guide, you'll find:

• Tips and strategies for building your assessment capabilities, identifying your strengths, and growing your professional network.
• An integrated process for assessing your clients that consistently gets results by encouraging client buy-in, involvement, and ownership.
• Solutions to common assessment challenges, including boosting client self-confidence and dealing with your own and your clients' fear and anxiety.
• Seven full case studies showcasing the value of assessment, plus numerous other author and client stories showing the assessment process in action.
• Special chapters on work values, workplace bullying, and job fit you won't find in typical books on career development or career assessment.

Game Plan is perfect for career professionals at all levels-graduate students just starting out, practitioners looking to expand their knowledge of assessments, and instructors seeking to bring real-world perspectives to their students. Includes end-of-chapter discussion points that draw on the readers' own experience with assessment and encourage further growth and exploration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578989945
Publisher:	Innerview Press LLP
Publication date:	03/14/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	551 KB

About the Author

Dean R. DeGroot is a licensed psychologist and business consultant who has helped individuals and organizations navigate change through career assessment and other services for over thirty years. He has a particular interest in workplace dynamics, including job fit, job satisfaction, and bullying and disrespectful behavior. Dean holds a master's degree in behavior analysis and therapy from Southern Illinois University. He is past president of the Minnesota Career Development Association and received the Marty Dockman Merit Award and Jules Kerlan Outstanding Achievement Award for his contributions to the profession.
Liz Willis is a writer and editor with a strong interest in career development and the obstacles that keep people, especially writers, from realizing their dreams. She writes a blog for writers at lizwillis.com. Liz holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Alberta and a master's degree in library and information science from Western University.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Bruce Roselle

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Assessing Yourself and Your Career

Chapter 1: Specializing in Career Assessment

Chapter 2: Exploring Your Strengths

Chapter 3: Building Your Network

Part 2: Assessing Your Clients

Chapter 4: The Career Assessment Process

Chapter 5: The Structured Interview

Chapter 6: Formal Assessments

Chapter 7: Processing the Data

Chapter 8: The Game Plan

Part 3: Assessing the Work Environment

Chapter 9: Work Values and Job Satisfaction

Chapter 10: Assessing and Helping Bullied Clients

Chapter 11: Assessment and Job Fit

Part 4: Career Stories and Transformations

Chapter 12: Client Case Studies

Chapter 13: Assessment of a Writer by Liz Willis

Chapter 14: A Career Q&A with Dean

Part 5: The Quick-Reference Toolkit

Section 1: Assessment Forms, Questions, and Worksheets

Section 2: Special Exercises for Motivating Clients

Section 3: Purchasing and Administering Formal Assessments

Afterword and Acknowledgments

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Career Assessment Texts for Further Study

Appendix C: Invitation to Try the CCS

Appendix D: Workplace Bullying: Key Resources

Appendix E: Recommended Reading List