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out the companion website: www.JobHuntersBible.com .
    Identifying Your Skills and Planning Your Career
    This fun site (the website of European career expert Daniel Porot) will give you lots of information about identifying your skills, planning your career, and searching for jobs. If you want to go right to the skills section, click on the Self-Assessment tab at the bottom left on the home page. www.careergames.com
    Although the jobs described at California CareerZone are found in California, some may exist in your state too. The website is fun and informative, and it offers several free career assessments. Be sure to use the Reality Check section. It will help you learn what your ideal life may cost. www.cacareerzone.org
    EUREKA.org provides a comprehensive tool for career and college exploration. At a cost of $30 for an annual subscription, you will be able to explore information on careers, college, financial aid, job search, and starting your own business. http://eureka.org
    Another site that offers free skills and interest assessments is www.iseek.org .
    A free skills assessment that links with suggested occupations can be found at http://online.onetcenter.org (click on Skills Search).
    Prioritizing: This word means putting items in order of their importance to you. A first priority is what is most important to you. Simple prioritizing can be done by putting each item on a separate sticky note and rearranging them until you have a list that is prioritized. You’ll find an online grid and instructions for using one and making custom grids for five to twenty items at the following website (scroll down the far left column for a link to a grid): www.GroundOfYourOwnChoosing.com .

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    Who You Love to Work With
    YOUR FAVORITE TYPES OF PEOPLE
    Have you ever had a part-time or summer job where your work was actually pretty boring but you still liked going to work? If you’ve had that kind of job, we bet you liked going to work because you enjoyed the people there. Maybe you worked with friends, or perhaps you had a boss who was friendly and helped you learn new skills, or maybe you met interesting people—customers, clients, patients—every day. If you haven’t had a part-time or summer job, maybe you’ve had some of these same experiences in a class. The class itself may have been boring, but you enjoyed going to class because your friends were there, or the teacher cared about you, or class projects took you outside the classroom, where you met interesting people.
    Short of being a total hermit, most every job you’ll have as a teen or early twentysomething will surround you with people to one degree or another. Later in your career, you may work from a home office or even out of your suitcase and laptop as you travel the world. But as a young person, a good job can be ruined if you’re surrounded by difficult people or people you simply aren’t comfortable with, and an ordinary, not-so-interesting job can be fun if you work with people you enjoy.
    Finding a dream job involves more than discovering what you love to do; it also means discovering what kinds of people you enjoy working with. Let’s do that now by going to a “party”!

THE PARTY
Imagine you’ve received an invitation to a party of people a little older than you. You don’t know any of the people well or at all. (“What kind of party is that?!” you ask. Please bear with us, OK?) Below is an aerial view of the room where the party is taking place. For some reason, people with the same or similar interests have all gathered with each other in different corners of the room.
The following is a brief list of the types of people at the party. The terms Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional refer to particular types of skills and the people who most enjoy using them. Each category includes a few examples of people who might be in that particular group. In the descriptions of these people, you’ll probably notice how