Find Your Fit: A Practical Guide to Landing a Job You'll Love

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Identifying Your Skills and Strengths

Dan Schwartz

This chapter will help you identify and describe your best skills and strengths. It includes some free and low to moderate cost methods you can use to assess your skills. These resources will help you determine how you can effectively use your skills assessment to choose and plan your career.

Think of your journey to uncovering your skills and strengths as similar to a television crime drama. Every experience, job, or achievement serves as a clue to finding your ultimate calling—or solving your case. Have you ever noticed that about halfway through the show, the detectives usually appear to have found the criminal and are ready to close the case? But then a new development takes place, a witness ...