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- Switching Tracks published by Revel, authored by John Bradley
- Discovering Your Natural Talents published by NavPress, authored by John Bradley and Jay Carty
- Online "Talent Discovery Guide"
- IDAK Career Match Self Administered Kit
Switching Tracks published by Revel-Baker, authored by John Bradley, and Dave and Neta Jackson.
At mid-life, most people start to evaluate their life direction. They look at the past and they speculate about the future. Why do some appear happier, more productive in their work and others are burned out, frustrated with no hope?
The authors suggest that discovering one's inherent talents makes all the difference.
With over 20 years experience in helping mid-career adults with career development conflicts, Bradley draws from biographical sketches of five individuals. For each scenario the reader progresses through five critical stages of Adult Career Development as they see the individuals discuss their decisions, victories, and disappointments. These stages include:
- Passionate Pursuits (ages 20-30)
- Evaluating the Results (ages 30-35)
- Confirmation or collision (ages 35-45)
- Accelerated Performance (ages 45-55)
- Heightened Performance or Bitterness (ages 55+)
This is not a "how to" but a warm and frank look at how our decisions can ultimately lead to the mastery of a trade of vocation as opposed to our senior years being shadowed by bitterness and disappointment.
(Review by "Christian Counseling Today")
Building on his experience as a career counselor, the author suggests that people go through five phases in their careers. Using case histories that are composites from his clients, Bradley illustrates and describes the stages of passionate pursuits (ages 20 to 30), reevaluation (early 30s), confirmation (ages 35 to 45), accelerated performance or devastation (ages 45 to 55), and heightened performance or bitterness (mid-50s and beyond). Three appendices add practical helps for people as they move through these phases.
The book is intended as a self-help volume and does have helpful guidelines for people "switching tracks" in their careers. Counselors who read this book are likely to find this to be a valuable and practical framework for understanding people who grapple with career issues at different stages in their lives.
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Discovering Your Natural Talents NAVPRESS authored by John Bradley and Jay Carty, (approximately 1-1/2 hours per chapter).
This text includes the IDAK Talent Discovery Guide which is divided into the first five chapters. Each chapter guides you in the assessment of your talent strengths. The text also explains how talents are different from but complementary to spiritual gifts, personality traits, occupational skills, interests and values. The second five chapters explain how to apply your talents to your job, marriage, church ministry and beyond.
Chapter 1: Discovering Your Talents
Chapter 2: The Way You Communicate
Chapter 3: The Way You Relate
Chapter 4: The Way You Function
Chapter 5: The Way You Lead
Chapter 6: You and Your Relationships
Chapter 7: Does All Work Mean No Play?
Chapter 8: Ministry: Do It the Easy Way
Chapter 9: Hobbies: Are You Having Fun Yet?
Chapter 10: Go For It!
This is an excellent resource for small group or classroom study and for church mobilization application. Small group and church class use is enhanced with the use of the DVD/video, "Unlocking Your Sixth Suitcase."
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IDAK online "Talent Discovery Guide" This new resource provides a high quality evaluation of your God given talents. This service is a significant step up in validity from the talent assessment offered in the book Discovering Your Natural Talents.
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IDAK Career Match™ Self-Administered Kit This is a computer scored assessment tool which evaluates your career interests, values and your natural talents. The assessment results are matched to over 60,000 career options including ministry service, business, industry, government agencies, military departments, education and nonprofit organizations.
You receive two detailed printout spreadsheet reports along with an Employer Search Guide to help you locate organizations in your city which match the report results. (It takes approximately 6-8 hours for completion. Allow time to mail in answer booklet for computer scoring).
The printout reports list your aptitude results and list your top 10 recommended career matches. Your interpretation of your spread sheet reports is enhanced by an audio CD step-by-step guide to help you with the interpretation of your results. This tool does not include any counseling or advisement of your results by a counselor. This self service process is very valuable to help discover your full range of career possibilities, particularly at midlife and beyond. It is not recommended for individuals who are attempting to resolve a current job problem (such as stress, boredom or lack of advancement). It is also not recommended for unemployed individuals seeking a new direction for their job search. This self service can be upgraded to either Full Service Options: Mid-Career Advancement Assessment or IDAK Complete Job Search.
$150 plus postage and handling
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