Choice Points: Navigate Your Career Using the Unique PaperRoom Process

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Summary: Great balance of idealism and practicality
Review: As a writer on career issues, I have read dozens of career books; this is one of the very best. Author Sydney Rice distingushes herself from the hordes of career and life coaches in the world, many of whom, as a Web search will show, sell new-age snake oil with their unproven processes and their expensive tapes, seminars, and coaching contracts. A smart, experienced executive coach, Sydney, by contrast, offers a rare blend of idealism and practicality. Through a comprehensive but not overwhelming process, she shows the reader how all of one's life experiences can and should be used to make change and to reach one's full potential. It's especially inspiring for those making change at midlife, but it's applicable to any age. For more on her approach, see Sydney Rice's Web site at www.thepaperroom.com.

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Summary: A superbly organized and presented self-help guide
Review: Choice Points: Navigate Your Career Using The Unique PaperRoom Process by professional business coach, consultant and trainer Sydney Rice (founder and president of The Boston Coaching Company) is a superbly organized and presented self-help guide written to aid readers in navigating their ideal career path. Personal inquiry exercises to better understand oneself, one's talents, and one's goals, are blended with solid advice for reviewing and presenting one's past work experience, tips tricks and techniques for pursuing serious career advancement. Choice Points is strongly recommended as an methodical and integrative career planning guide.