Assessing You: The first step in career planning

A self-assessment workbook to help you learn about the skills and assets you have that will help you adapt in today’s world of work. Read about the skills employers are looking for and work on exercises that will help identify your own strengths. Includes suggestions for keeping track of your skills and ideas for repackaging your career assets to suit your current needs. By the end of the book you will have developed a summary of personal assets that will help you with future career choices. Previously published as Skills Plus Handbook: Discovering your personal career assets.

Assessing You:
The first step in career planning Career Practitioners and Educators Assessing You: The first step in career planning (formerly the Skills Plus Handbook) addresses the self-assessment phase of the career planning process.
It will help your client or students to
• explore their knowledge, skills and abilities that are transferable from one work role to another
• explore personal management skills such as time management, problem solving and organizational skills
• understand how their personal characteristics influence their career decisions
• identify specific work that supports their desired career goals
• identify their resources (personal, material and financial) and determine which are most helpful to their career path
• understand the importance of updating their career portfolio using newly acquired information about themselves
• connect with further information and resources