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Books

Buckingham, Marcus and Clifton, Donald O.
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Free Press, 2001

Buckingham, Marcus 
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
Free Press, 2007

Davis, Sandra and Handschin, Bill
Reinventing Yourself: Life Planning After 50 Using the Strong and MBTI
Uses two scientifically based tools to help the reader understand themselves and make wiser decisions about work and relationships.
Consulting Psychologists Press, First edition, 1998

Jung, Carl
Psychological Types
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd, 1992

Keirsey, David and Bates, Marilyn
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, Third edition, 1984

Kroeger, Otto and Thuesen, Janet M.
Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work
Dell, Reissue edition, 1989

Laney, Marti Olen
The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Workman Publishing Company, 2002

Martin, Charles R.
Looking at Type and Careers
The book contains descriptions of the preferences of each of the 16 MBTI types and contains a section called "Careers Selected Most Often" for each type.
Center for Applications of Psychological Type, 1995

Rath, Tom
StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New adn Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
Gallup Press, 2007

Tieger, Paul and Barron-Tieger, Barbara
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century
Discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type.
Little, Brown, Third edition, 2001

ONLINE RESOURCES

Assessing Transition Readiness - www.wmbridges.com/resources/assessment_tools.html

Barriers/Challenges to Career-Decision Making - www.langara.bc.ca/counselling/career/barriers.html

Birkman Career Style Summary - http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/career_quiz1.asp

Career Anchors: Some Speculations on their Evolution - www.solonline.org/repository/download/1009.html?item_id=507557#one

Career Changers - www.learnmoreindiana.org/@adults/adults_careers/

Career Interests Game - http://career.missouri.edu/students/explore/thecareerinterestsgame.php

Career Interest Profiler - www.testingroom.com/b2cfiles/tests.html

Career Key - www.careerkey.org

CareerMaze - www.careermaze.com

Career Perfect's Work Preference Inventory - www.careerperfect.com/content/career-planning-work-preference-inventory

CareerStorm Navigator - www.careerstorm.com

Complete Kiersey Temperament Sorter II - www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp

Creative Job Search's Online Guide - www.amby.com/worksite/cjs/cjsbook2/skill6d.htm

Motivational Appraisal for Personal Potential - www.assessment.com

Occupational Personality Questionnaire - www.myskillsprofile.com/tests.php?test=4

Online Career Assessment Tools Review - www.quintcareers.com/online_assessment_review.html

Princeton Review Career Quiz - www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/default.asp

Queendom.com - www.queendom.com

Skills Profiler - www.acinet.org/acinet/skills/default.aspx

Type Logic - www.typelogic.com

University of Minnesota-Duluth - www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/car/self/career_transfer_survey.html

University of Waterloo - Career Development eManual - www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step1.asp

What's Your Personality Type? - www.personalitytype.com/quiz.asp

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