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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.

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Using assessments in career counseling is a powerful skill that will set you apart from other counselors and coaches. I wish I had had this book when I was starting out! -Barb Krantz Taylor, MA, LP, licensed psychologist and principal consultant, The Bailey Group Game Plan is full of practical advice, easy-to-use forms, and real-life examples to help readers apply the material they've learned. Whether you're new to career assessment or an advanced practitioner, you'll learn something from this book. -Jean M. Kummerow, owner and consulting psychologist, Jean Kummerow & Associates Readers receive valuable help in the subtle art of integrating and interpreting assessment data, with all its ambiguity and complexity. In addition, the book offers a true insider's view by sharing Dean's personal journey, insights, and perspectives. -Tamara Nelson, PhD, LP, founder, CareerMoves Game Plan is for both career counselors who want to grow their practice and for those aspiring to be a part of this life-changing profession. -Sandra Krebs Hirsh, principal, Sandra Hirsh Consulting, co-author (with Jean M. Kummerow) of LifeTypes: Understand Yourself and Make the Most of Who You Are Career practitioners will appreciate the concrete suggestions for utilizing assessment in their practice. I especially enjoyed the case studies, which offer rich examples of how assessment can be applied in our work with clients. -Paul Timmins, executive director, University of Oregon Career Center, and former president, National Career Development Association Dean describes his professional evolution as an assessment professional with candor, in terms that reassure and encourage those new to assessment or career counseling. The book fills a real need by adding practical advice and color to existing textbooks on career assessment. -Kate Schaefers, executive director, University of Minnesota Advanced Careers Initiative This practical and strategic guide serves as a roadmap for providing career assessment services. I especially liked Part 1, Assessing Yourself and Your Career, which is all about professional development for career practitioners. -Sharon Givens, chief executive director and founder, Visions Counseling and Career Center, president elect, National Career Development Association The chapter on workplace bullying addresses an important issue often overlooked in other career development resources and dialogues. -Michael J. Stebleton, PhD, associate professor and coordinator of higher education, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and co-author of Hired! The Job Hunting and Planning Guide, 4th edition

"""Using assessments in career counseling is a powerful skill that will set you apart from other counselors and coaches. I wish I had had this book when I was starting out!"" -Barb Krantz Taylor, MA, LP, licensed psychologist and principal consultant, The Bailey Group ""Game Plan is full of practical advice, easy-to-use forms, and real-life examples to help readers apply the material they've learned. Whether you're new to career assessment or an advanced practitioner, you'll learn something from this book."" -Jean M. Kummerow, owner and consulting psychologist, Jean Kummerow & Associates ""Readers receive valuable help in the subtle art of integrating and interpreting assessment data, with all its ambiguity and complexity. In addition, the book offers a true insider's view by sharing Dean's personal journey, insights, and perspectives."" -Tamara Nelson, PhD, LP, founder, CareerMoves ""Game Plan is for both career counselors who want to grow their practice and for those aspiring to be a part of this life-changing profession."" -Sandra Krebs Hirsh, principal, Sandra Hirsh Consulting, co-author (with Jean M. Kummerow) of LifeTypes: Understand Yourself and Make the Most of Who You Are ""Career practitioners will appreciate the concrete suggestions for utilizing assessment in their practice. I especially enjoyed the case studies, which offer rich examples of how assessment can be applied in our work with clients."" -Paul Timmins, executive director, University of Oregon Career Center, and former president, National Career Development Association ""Dean describes his professional evolution as an assessment professional with candor, in terms that reassure and encourage those new to assessment or career counseling. The book fills a real need by adding practical advice and color to existing textbooks on career assessment."" -Kate Schaefers, executive director, University of Minnesota Advanced Careers Initiative ""This practical and strategic guide serves as a roadmap for providing career assessment services. I especially liked Part 1, Assessing Yourself and Your Career, which is all about professional development for career practitioners."" -Sharon Givens, chief executive director and founder, Visions Counseling and Career Center, president elect, National Career Development Association ""The chapter on workplace bullying addresses an important issue often overlooked in other career development resources and dialogues."" -Michael J. Stebleton, PhD, associate professor and coordinator of higher education, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and co-author of Hired! The Job Hunting and Planning Guide, 4th edition"

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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.

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