Cynthia Kivland, President of CareerPerformanceStrategies, is an US representative of Career Advisor, an organizational career development online resource.

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Designed by international career management expert Dr. Barbara Moses, Career Advisor combines the powerful self-assessment tools of her acclaimed Career Planning Workbook and the advice of the best-seller What Next? and the Manager’s Career Coaching Guide with e-learning technologies to create a complete electronic career management environment.

Career Advisor shows staff how to respond to whatever issues they are dealing with -- whether wanting to develop themselves, contemporary career challenges such as lack of balance and burnout, asking themselves “what next?, or wanting to move ahead. HR leaders have hailed it as “the ultimate career management resource.”

The topic menus offer a lively combination of user-friendly interactive diagnostic instruments, personal reports, engaging advice, tools, and action planning exercises.

• Know Yourself: Diagnostic instruments and personal reports in 9 areas including core competencies, job essentials, work style and preferences, strengths and areas for development, motivational type, values, and reality-testing. The assessments are fun, easy to complete and enlightening.


• Choose Your Path: Diagnostic instruments, personal reports, quizzes, and information on role and organizational sector fit, match with / how to do it on work options such as self-development, job enrichment, part-time work, telecommuting, career shift, and moving up.


• Overcome Career Distress: Advice, quizzes and interactive assessments on dealing with such challenges as burn-out, boredom, a lack of fulfillment, a career crisis, failure, and much more.


• Solve Career-stage Dilemmas: Advice, tips, and strategies for older, younger , and those in-between on common challenges - 20-something career uncertainty, overcoming age bias, and older staff and young bosses.


• Restore Balance: Interactive assessment on time/energy satisfaction, advice and strategies for designing a life which meets personal needs.
  
• Use Career Strategies: Personal reports (Are you a career activist?; Test Your Career Intelligence on 12 New Rules), and advice on what you need to do to be successful today including how to network, find a mentor, decide whether to specialize/ upgrade education, and keep on learning.


• Find Great Work: a comprehensive job search guide for internal or external application.


• Parents: Career-proof Kids: Advice for anxious parents; advice and assessments for teens and grads


• Coach Others: tips and strategies based on Manager’s Career Coaching Guide. Do you have what it takes to be a career coach? How to use Career Advisor to support individuals; help people cope with new work realities; hold effective career discussions; deal with typical career concerns; manage and retain Gen Y.

Features

• 90 Learning Modules, 39 assessments, 18 Personal Reports.


• Custom Reports: Information on data critical to the employee experience such as motivational types, job satisfaction, and competencies for development can be generated according to your specs.
  
• Tracking: Information about staff usage.
  
• Confidentiality: Exercises, quizzes and diagnostics completed on-line are sent back to the user (via a button -- "email for my personal portfolio").
  
Customization: Corporate home page, links to internal policies, customization of menu topics.

• Intuitive and engaging: Inviting, beautifully designed.
  
• Site Licensing Arrangements tailored to your needs.

A French language version is available.