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The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success |  | Author: Nicholas Lore
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
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Rating:  127 reviews
Sales Rank: 3414
Media: Paperback
Edition: Original
Pages: 385
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0684823993
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9780684823997
ASIN: 0684823993
Publication Date: January 5, 1998
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Author Nicholas Lore uses the techniques of his career-guidance network, the Rockport Institute, to make The Pathfinder a substitute for a great job counselor. Through goal setting, list making, and other techniques, the book leads readers though the process of deciding exactly what they want to do for a living and finding a way to make it happen. Lore realizes that people have different temperaments and decision-making methods, so he provides individualized advice to suit each one. He also understands that creating a new career requires courage as well as desire, so The Pathfinder devotes plenty of space to motivation and overcoming fears. While anyone looking for a new career will find direction with this guide, people who didn't know they were looking may decide to start once they go through Lore's probing self-examination process.
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DO YOU JUMP OUT OF BED EVERY MORNING AND RUSH TO A JOB YOU LOVE? Or is the work you once enjoyed now just a way to pay the bills? Perhaps you're even doubting your career choice altogether. Let The Pathfinder guide you to a more engaging, fulfilling work life. Based on breakthrough techniques developed by Rockport Institute, an innovative and award-winning career-counseling network that has changed the lives of over 10,000 people, The Pathfinder offers invaluable advice and more than 100 self-tests and diagnostic tools that will help you choose an entirely new career -- or view a current job from a new, more positive perspective. You'll learn: * How to design your new career direction step by step so that it fits your talents, personality, needs, goals, values, and is, at the same time, practical and attainable
* How to deal successfully with the "yeah but" voices in your head that keep you going back to the same old ill-fitting job, day after day
* How to land the perfect job in your new field, plus tips on writing a really exceptional résumé, personal marketing, and networking (even for those who hate to network) 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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 Better than "what color is your parachute" July 15, 2010
Cupcakes for tomorow
The author clearly shows mastered experience in career counseling (in fact, he has his own professional institute called "Rockport Institute").
The book is a bit long, but like a Harry Potter book, it's just filled with life experiences and engaging metaphorical examples with easy to understand lessons and exercises.
CONS: he does try to market "Pathfinder" a bit too much like it's some kind of mystic tool you got to buy, but I'd just ignore that and get on to the life stories. Other than that everything else is pretty good.
While "What color is your parachute" continually gets updated too often listening to every little nitpick, it loses out on essential information and compensates through short (often redundant religious) information that doesn't really help. Plus, the links to websites provided aren't that great ... most of the time it's mediocre stuff made from the 90's (no html 5, just really old fashion flash or out-of-date surveys or questionnaires).
BOTTOM LINE:
If I had to spend $20 on a career book, I'd choose "Pathfinder" by Nicholas Lore, career coach extraordinaire over any other book (or school counselor for that matter) any day!
This book is perfect for high schoolers, lost college students, (or any student for that matter) or person who got laid off and needs to be on the rebound to learn how to market oneself. This book has it all!
NO GAMES JUST SUCCESS May 26, 2010
M. Palmer (Los Angeles, CA)
This book is a winner! It is not for those who really don't want to hear the truth, do the work, and get over their negative connotations! That having been said, I LOVED IT. I found it so refreshing that someone, although speaking in a highly comprehensible manner, made me feel like I had to know I was worth what I was looking for. No games in this book (many exercises though)! Use the time you have to read this book wisely as the exercises become an exploration of your true intentions. For people interested in really making a great career I also read, love and recommend Meagan Holub's The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist. I'm not a massage therapist in any respect but her book was STILL A VALUE! I learned how to take my passion and skill, own it and take it the next level. Armed with these two masterpieces you can't fail! Unless of course all you do is read, you have to DO.
Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success April 14, 2010
M. Cullen
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Yeah, I know it took a little while before I wrote my review, but here it goes. Product was shipped quickly. Item was as described, except for the musty smell. I would not have ordered it had that been stated in the description. I was trying to get the best price and a little wear was not a problem, I just wished it had been disclosed. Other than that, the price was great and the ship time was great, would consider this company again.
Great Book for Rethinking Career Choice February 17, 2010
Deborah A. Noncz (Channahon, il)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book was in excellent condition on quick receipt. A well written and thought provoking book to determine how to choose a career fit for your personality and strengths written by a career coach. Great excercises to get your thought organized.
 This was OK, but there are probably better books out there January 26, 2010
LiquidSapphire (Tacoma, WA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
First of all, a big BOO to the publisher for the very poor quality of the binding. I have a softcover copy and the pages are literally falling out!!! I took pretty good care of this book, it hasn't been as heavily used as many of my other ones, and yet, I am losing pages. Something to consider if you are buying this as a reference.
Pros: This book more than any other really makes you become introspective. It makes you dig DEEEEP down inside into your psyche to pull out information to help you design a career. If you think you can breeze through this book in a day and at the end have a brand new career you are wrong. This book makes you WORK to get the information you want/need. YOU have to pull them out yourself. The book is realistic that, sometimes, the answer is not within you and therefore you can consult outside sources, like career exams and interest/talent inventories. Of course then he tells you that to *really* get it, you should go spend $500 at the Rockford Institute, a career institute created by the author, for a battery of career tests. I was pretty annoyed at the plug. Anyway, the book does have a cursory review of talents/strengths and gives you a battery of "inquiries", questions to ask yourself while designing a career. A strong focus of this book is turning the information you get from the inquiries into reality. It forces you to create "commitments", or "what WILL be a part of my next career" and covers things such as "What to do when you get stuck".
Cons: Nothing in this book is really eye opening in my opinion. I have already asked most of the inquiries of myself already and was still stuck, the entire reason I bought the book, so I was pretty annoyed when the book kept asking me questions that I viewed as essentially unhelpful, or things I have already covered with myself without the book that led me nowhere. (what did you want to be when you were a kid, what do you like about your job, what do you hate about your job (and every other job you ever had, etc)
I found the talents section (where they try to sell you more tests) moderately insightful and this is the part of the book I gained from the most. It identifies several inherent natural talents that a person either has, or does not have, such as spatial ability, abstract thinking, etc. I wish there was a book on just this and identifying what one's true strengths/talents are, but I have yet to find one.
I think, if you are struggling in the same way I am, I would recommend "What Color is Your Parachute" over this book. It's known as THE book for finding a job, and that's nice, but I truly value the Flower Exercise. It really spoke to me in a way that helped me finally narrow things down and come out with some strong options as far as careers. As a person who doesn't have very many blindingly obvious talents and options, I found it insightful and helpful, and the best thing I have read to date. It, again, will MAKE you do work, but not anywhere near as much as the Pathfinder and I feel I got more out of it.
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