1. Getting the Most From CareerLeader®

2. 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’”

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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

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

39. 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

40. 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)!

41. 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?