Discover What You're Best at

Join the ranks of the more than half-million people who have discovered their true talents and made successful career choices with DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE BEST AT. Now this bestselling career guide has been revised for the Twenty-First Century, including valuable new information on the skills in demand in high-tech fields, such as IT and medicine. Giving you the edge in the competitive world of the job market, this guide will help you save money by heading you in the proper career direction before you choose courses of study; save time by allowing you to tailor your curriculum to your career objectives, without resorting to trial-and-error course samplings and learn to set realistic goals. The guide enables you to identify not only your interests but also your innate talents and potential skills, and then to match your career strengths to dozens of the more than 1,100 jobs described in detail. DISCOVER WHAT YOU'RE BEST AT enables you to set realistic and rewarding career goals based on your abilities.

Contents

PREFACE

PART I:

THE NATIONAL CAREER APTITUDE SYSTEM

Why the NCAS Is for You

Your career -- by choice, not by chance.

Your Value System Determines Your Job Satisfaction

Commonly held job-related values.

Do New Technologies Create New Jobs?

Changes are more subtle. Academic skills. Personal management skills. Teamwork skills.

The Shifting Workplace

Changing perceptions about possible careers.

Aptitudes vs. Interests

Know what you can do as well as what you like to do.

How Will You Benefit?

Save time. Save money. Understand your strengths. And your weaknesses. Gain encouragement. Be able to set appropriate goals. Be guided in selecting a career. Be opened to new areas.

How Does It Work?

Testing your career potentials.

A Few Words of Caution

What else you'll need to succeed.

Tips for Becoming a Skillful Test Taker

How to avoid distractions and delays.

About the Test Itself

Time limits. Take the whole test. Guessing. Keep it simple. Relax.

PART II:

THE TESTS

Business Test:

Discover if you have the aptitudes for business -- to coordinate, delegate, manage, negotiate, organize, persuade, sell, and supervise.

Clerical Test:

Discover if you can work rapidly and precisely with details, find comparisons, decode materials, memorize quickly, file and research efficiently.

Logic Test:

Discover if you are skilled in the art of reasoning. Can you find similarities and differences among objects, systematize and simplify involved problems, draw conclusions rapidly, infer information?

Mechanical Test:

Discover if tomorrow's technology includes you. Can you follow patterns, understand basic machines, solve problems involving spatial relationships, develop intricate designs, work with precision?

Numerical Test:

Discover how you compare with others who use numbers in their careers. Can you figure discounts, find the next number in a series, estimate possible solutions, read numerical charts and graphs?

Social Test:

Discover if you have the aptitude for helping others solve personal problems. Can you motivate others, advise, guide, or counsel them?

PART III:

SCORING

Answer Keys

What Your Scores Tell You

PART IV:

CHOOSING YOUR CAREER: THE CAREER CLUSTERS

How to Find Your Career Cluster

Profit from Your Results

The 41 Career Clusters

PART V:

LEARNING ABOUT YOUR CAREER: 1,100 CAREERS IDENTIFIED AND EXPLAINED

The Career Directory

PART VI:

YOUR CAREER QUEST IN CYBERIA

Ahead of the Times: Then and Now

Discover the Net and W3

Info Highway Hints

Career Sites on the Web

What's Next?

The Face of the Deep

Test Forms

Acknowledgments