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Multiple Intelligences Developmental Assessment Scales (MIDAS)

The MIDAS provides a comprehensive description of a person’s intellectual potential and is used by individuals, families, schools and businesses around the world.

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Clifton StrengthsExplorer

Clifton StrengthsExplorer helps kids discover and develop their talents. Each child is gifted in their own extraordinary way, but sometimes we take that for granted. In fact, having unique differences is our best multiplier for success. You can better prepare your elementary- and middle-school-aged children by giving them the ability to better know their own potential. By taking Clifton StrengthsExplorer, your child will receive a report with their top three talents and ideas for how to highlight, illuminate and provide important data and action steps for a better future. When kids discover their talents, it can lead to: resilience and confidence productivity and engagement in school hope and direction for the future And doesn't every child deserve to have all of these advantages? Primarily for ages 10-14, ages 15+ should use Clifton Strengths. (fee based)

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Clifton Strengths (formerly Strengths Finder)

Completing the online talent assessment (formerly the Clifton StrengthsFinder) is your way to: - discover what you naturally do best - learn how to develop your greatest talents into strengths - use your personalized results and reports to maximize your potential This is primarily for ages 15+. Ages 10-14 should use Clifton StrengthsExplorer. (fee-based)

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Now What?: The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career

The impolite truth nobody mentions in college commencement speeches: "Many of you have just spent four years and a small fortune studying something you will never use, and, if you do, you won't like all that much. Have a nice life." Up until now, you've had to rely on hit-and-miss methods of picking your career that lead to only 30 percent of college graduates reporting satisfaction with their careers.

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The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success

Whether you're a seasoned professional in search of a career change or a beginner just entering the working world, you want to make the right choices from the beginning. No matter where you are in your journey, if you want work to be more of a dance than a drag, The Pathfinder will expertly coach you through the process of designing a career you will love.

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Doable: The Girls' Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything

Got goals? This empowering guide shows how to tackle your to-dos with confidence and enthusiasm so that you can transform anxiety into accomplishment.

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The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do

On his thirtieth birthday, Jeff Goins quit his job and began his pursuit of becoming a full-time writer. While certainly that was a milestone day, it was still less significant than the ones that lead to that memorable moment. The journey he took leading up to that daring decision involved twists, turns, and surprises he never expected.

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Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What To Do with Your Life

Through inspirational stories and interviews, journal-like prompts, and practical career development information, this helpful resource will steer students, recent graduates, and career-changers toward an authentic, fulfilling life.

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You Majored in What?: Designing Your Path from College to Career

“So what are you going to do with your major?” It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college.

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Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

Barbara Sher has become famous for her extraordinary ability to help people define and achieve their goals. What Sher has discovered is that some individuals simply cannot, and should not, decide on a single path; they are genetically wired to pursue many areas.

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Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type

Finding a career path that you’re passionate about can be difficult—but it doesn't have to be! With this bestselling guide, learn how to find a fulfilling career that fits your personality.

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Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are.

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