Are you involved in the process of career pathing in your organization? Are you trying to figure out if the career path you have chosen for yourself is one that truly allows you to make the most of the unique skill set that you have to offer? Whether you are an HR professional or a manger who's concerned about making sure that employees are placed in jobs where they have an opportunity to excel, Work Your Strengths: A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match them to the Best Career for You is an invaluable tool. This book is a must-read for you, and can also be an excellent resource for the members of your organization's workforce as well.
Reading Work Your Strengths can help you develop a deeper understanding of what's involved in making sure that your organization is putting the right people in the right jobs at the right times in their lives. This can be very important to long term success for the organization as well as for your employees (and you!) on an individual level. As Work Your Strengths lead author Chuck Martin says, "Your brain is hardwired to function in a specific way. If you're not in a position where your strongest skills are vital, you're not likely to excel. Worse, if you're in a position where your weakest skills are vital, you're going to feel it and are likely to fail."
Work Your Strengths is an excellent tool to use when working with employees to help them identify an appropriate career path within the organization that allows them to make the most of their strong points without putting them into situations where weaknesses might hold them back. It's something that everyone who wants to develop a deeper understanding about how to match personal strengths to career success should consider reading. The time you spend reading this book - and applying what you learn from doing so - will certainly be time well spent.
Mary Gormandy White, M.A., SPHR is a corporate training specialist with Mobile Technical Institute & MTI Business Solutions ( http://www.mobiletechwebsite.com/ ) and the author of 101 Human Resource Management Tips and 101 Successful PR Campaign Tips in the LifeTips book series. For information on MTI's on-site corporate training and HR consulting services, email success (at) mtimail.com or call 251-478-6848. For more HR-related book reviews, visit http://dailyhrsolutions.com/.
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