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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

How to Choose Career Assessments


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With the endless variety of career assessments out there, how do you know what to look for to find the right one? What questions should you be asking yourself when selecting the proper career assessment for your counseling or advising center? How will you narrow down all your options?

I know there are a lot of factors to consider when choosing the right assessment for your students. You of course want to give your students (or clients) the best results out there, as your goal is to help them find the right path to success. For this reason, I felt compelled to share the following white paper which was written by Judith Grutter, MS, NCC, MCC: Selecting Career Assessments. Judith is a trainer and career development program consultant with over 30 years of experience, as well as the Principal of GS Consultants (http://www.gsconsultants.net/). Just like you, she once had to ask herself these same questions. She wrote a lot of valuable advice on this topic and gives guidelines as to what you should look for during this selection process. I hope you find this white paper to be a good guideline for you, as there are many factors that you may not have considered which are covered here.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The "Interview Survival Kit" from the Washington Post

Here is a great resource site from the Washington Post called the Interview Survival Kit. I’m linking you to their first article titled “Prepare for Pitfalls: How to get through tough job interviews”. This article gives students (or anyone going through a job search) great advice from a panel of experts the Washington Post gathered. From this page, you are able to navigate to several other article links that I recommend for you to share with your students. There is another article which offers advice such as sample questions to ask at the end of an interview when an interviewer asks “Do you have any questions for me?” so as not to come empty handed.

When I was in college, I loved reading these types of articles to find advice. I liked it when they didn’t sound so serious and business-focused. These are written with students in mind, as I’ve come across other advice articles with the same intent, but would bore me out of my mind.

You’ll also notice that there is a Nail the Interview game link, which I had shared with you in a past
blog. For some reason, this particular link did not work for me. So if you run in to the same issue, click here to view the game from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution website.





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