Career Planning

 
You have unlimited potential to be more and do more. You have a deep desire to grow in life and work. You are ready to exceed everyone's expectations.

The Career Direct® Complete Guidance System is an individual, personal growth resource designed to help you maximize your God-given talents and abilities. It analyzes four critical areas —personality, interests, skills, and values. Most other career assessments only analyze one or two.

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  Are you starting out on a career search, but you're not sure which way to go? Do you feel like you are stuck in the wrong job, but you are in doubt as to what steps to take to find the right career field? Are you returning to the job market, but you don't know what types of jobs are available now? Read more...
 
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The Career Direct® Guidance System can help you along the path of educational and career fulfillment. By taking this one-hour walk of discovery on CD-ROM, you will gather a valuable collection of information about yourself you can use immediately. It allows you to profile your personality, interests, skills, and values and instantly generates over 30 pages of individualized reports.

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Individual Testimonies - Career Direct® Complete Guidance System

Read just a few of the many life-changing testimonies of what Career Direct® has done for people just like you!

“Thanks so much for the confirmation of who I am and for helping me get organized for the future!” Bernd M.

“The Career Direct® assessment helped me realize that through the years I took whatever job came along and I built up a number of skills, but I didn’t pursue my heart’s desire and interests that matched my personality.” Rebecca C.

“Thank you for Career Direct®. It helped me find out what my interests really are.” Marilyn M.

“Thank you for the excellent Career Direct® assessment program. I received this as a gift from my mom and I have found it to be really helpful, both for guidance and for reconfirming some realizations about myself.” Bryan K.

“Overall, I felt the entire Career Direct® assessment was very helpful and well designed. I thought it was definitely worth the price.” Kathleen D.

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Crown Career Resources

Crown Career Resources is the career guidance outreach of Crown Financial Ministries of Gainesville, Georgia. Since 1976, under the leadership of Larry Burkett, Crown (formerly Christian Financial Concepts) has focused its ministry on teaching biblical principles of handling money. Crown Career Resources expands Crown’s emphasis on stewardship
to include stewardship of our other talents, i.e., our unique gifts, abilities, and personal style of work.

Crown Career Resources seeks to help individuals discover their talents and career direction by teaching biblical principles of stewardship for career and life Resources and by providing practical assistance through guidance materials. To learn more about our career resources, click here.

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Vocation and income
Anyone who thinks that career decisions are not related to income expectations is very naïve. Perhaps there are a few dedicated individuals who know in their late teens or early twenties exactly what they want to do for the rest of their lives, but they are in the minority. The vast majority of people who make career decisions early in life are motivated by income expectations. Read more...

Parents influence career decisions
Most Christian parents in America are familiar with the verse “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).However, few parents realize the true implications of the verse: dedicate, be good stewards of, and train children according to their natural abilities and talents. If parents do this, their children won’t depart from God’s design for them. Read more...

The Importance of Assessment
Understanding ones’ skills, interests, abilities, personality, and values is important when considering any next step after obtaining a high school diploma. However, understanding that a college or university setting is not for everyone is perhaps the most important ingredient in the mix of decisions concerning continuing education. Read more...

Career Planning: Is it ever too soon to begin?
It apparently is not ever too early to plan for a career, considering the fact that our modern-day public schools are often forcing teens to make key education and career decisions at increasingly earlier ages—sometimes as early as 6th or 7th grade. Are our youth learning a biblical model for education and career decision making? Read more...

 
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