Getting the Most From CareerLeader®

What CareerLeader Does Compares your core interests, abilities and motivations to more than 400,000 successful people in MBA careers Predicts career paths you are likely to enjoy, and succeed in Predicts elements of organizational culture key to your success and happiness Identifies personal “career ‘Achilles’ heels’”

Who Uses CareerLeader? Select MBA Programs—U.S. Harvard University University of Pennsylvania—Wharton Stanford University U.C. Berkeley—Haas Cornell—Johnson University of Virginia—Darden MIT—Sloan University of Chicago—Booth Duke—Fuqua Northwestern—Kellogg Dartmouth—Tuck U.C. Los Angeles—Anderson Columbia University Georgetown University—McDonough Emory—Goizueta New York University—Stern Yale University University of Michigan—Ross

Who Uses CareerLeader? Select MBA Programs—International IE Business School London Business School Indian School of Business HEC Paris IESE Business School ESADE Business School INSEAD Manchester Business School Cambridge University Hong Kong UST Business School Nanyang Business School Australian School of Business University of Oxford National University of Singapore SDA Boconi Indian Institute of Management CEIBS City University London (Cass)

Who Uses CareerLeader? Select Corporate Licensees Google Boston Consulting Group Bain and Company Microsoft America Online Booz Allen Hamilton Becton Dickinson Marico India Novartis McKesson

The Process (A Short Course in Discriminant Function Analysis) Select people who like, and are well-experienced, in a given career Analyze (and weight) the interest, motivations, and skill items an scales that “discriminate” between those people and 400,000 other people Validate the algorithms

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Making Sense of the Results: The Process You CareerLeader You Important but unusable information Refined, usable information Using that information

Answers and Advice Did I “fake it”? Why don’t my career matches and interests match? It didn’t surprise me It did surprise me (it’s wrong!) Your career matches: digging deeper Come back to it when you need it

A Little Wisdom You are the pilot of your career, not a passenger You can’t keep all your options open Get your mission clear before thinking strategy The “shotgun” strategy doesn’t work: You need a focus You’re only a brand-new MBA once Employers want people who want them (and can tell them why)!

Bringing Discipline to the Dream Differentiating your fantasies from your dream The dream as doing (not title) Where can you do what you dream of doing? What price are you willing to pay? How can you get there?