Game Plan: An Insider's Guide to Effective Career Assessment

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 offers the inside scoop. In this practical, in-depth book, you’ll find:

• strategies for assessing yourself as a career professional
• an integrated process for assessing your clients
• solutions to common assessment challenges
• case studies showcasing the value of assessment
• special chapters on work values and workplace bullying

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.

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.