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Career change planning programs on the market in 2010 - features comparison to CareerPlan Pro™
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Career Change Planning Program
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Course Contents
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Pricing
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CareerPlan Pro™
reinvent yourself |
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Compare these career change packages to CareerPlan Pro Fast Track Program
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A Major Career Institute - one of the oldest players in the industry
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CareerPlan Pro Fast Track Program
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Career Choice Program
3 months program based on personality tests and phone consults |
2 to 3 months long program
course content varies by individual course based on psychometric tests snail mail materials back and forth & phone no defined program schedule sliding scale - fees increase based on income |
$1,500
to $2,900 |
CareerPlan Pro
Fast Track Career Planning Program Complete $297 |
3 week comprehensive career planning package
step-by-step program that is like a GPS for your career Define Your Career, Set Goals, Create an Action Plan puts your career plan into play as soon as possible strong coaching and email support for exceptional results includes 4+ weekly coaching consults and unlimited email |
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Sample Career Change Advisor - phone consults coaching
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CareerPlan Pro Fast Track Program
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Career Coaching Program
3 hour phone consults |
Program based on psychometric tests
3 phone sessions no set program schedule Phone coaching based on test results no career blueprint & no career action plan course materials not clear |
$499
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CareerPlan Pro
Fast Track Career Planning Program Complete $297 |
3 week comprehensive career planning package
step-by-step program that is like a GPS for your career Define Your Career, Set Goals, Create an Action Plan puts your career plan into play as soon as possible strong coaching and email support for exceptional results includes 4+ weekly coaching consults and unlimited email |
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Compare this career planning package to CareerPlan Pro's Career Planning program
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A Career Advisor
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CareerPlan Pro Career Planning Program
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Advisor Program
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length of program varies
no self assessment & no career blueprint course content not clearly articulated you have to sort through resources yourself one coaching session monthly membership required |
$197
however, requires $29 monthly membership |
CareerPlan Pro
Career Planning Program $67 |
comprehensive career planning and self-assessment
step-by-step program that is like a GPS for your career Define Your Career, Set Goals, Create Action Plan course content builds upon itself strong career planning management system for the do-it-yourselfer |
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A Major Career Consulting Company - with corporate career focus
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CareerPlan Pro Career Planning Program
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Career Coaching Program
3 hour phone consults |
3 hour random consult
no self assessment & no career blueprint based on personality tests lightly touches on several areas not a comprehensive career plan focuses on resumes and interviews |
$179
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CareerPlan Pro
Career Planning Program $67 |
comprehensive career planning and self-assessment
straightforward step-by-step program: Define Your Career, Set Goals, Create Action Plan no psychometric tests, no required monthly membership course content builds upon itself for the do-it-yourselfer |
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Compare this career self-assessment package to CareerPlan Pro's Define Your Career program
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There is no directly comparable program out there to Define Your Career
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Define Your Career
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No comparable program available
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Define Your Career
Career Change Blueprint & Self-assessment Program $37 |
career change blueprint and self assessment tool
identifies and pinpoints your optimum career or business based on the four factors of your optimum career easy to complete step-by-step worksheets complete it in 2 to 4 hours for the do-it-yourselfer |
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Compare these career coaching consults to CareerPlan Pro's coaching advisor consult session
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A Major Career Planner - a Psychometric Tests Site
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One Time Coaching Consult
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Career Coaching 1 hour
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1 hour session
coaching includes 2 personality tests coach phone consult based on tests |
$275
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$37 1st session
$30 each add'l |
coaching based on course content
get specific results for your specific issues $37 can be applied to upgrade to any coaching package |
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Compare career tests to CareerPlan Pro
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A Major Career Institute - one of the oldest players in the industry
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Absolutely No Tests used to "categorize" you in CareerPlan Pro
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Career Testing Program
Psychometric tests and analysis |
a battery of psychometric "personality" tests
to fit you into a "category" "type" or "score" no self assessment & no career blueprint once "tested" you'll still need a career program |
$520
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psychometric tests used here |
psychometric tests are used by many corporations
to "weed out bad apples" - not to Define Your Career why try to "categorize" your one-of-a-kind personality? do you need to be "classified" into what "type" you are? |
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Summary
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As you can see above, most career planning industry coaching is haphazard and based on personality tests, and for what they try to do, they may be fairly priced.
However, the more you compare "apples to apples" of these features: 1. Define your career 2. Convert it to goals 3. Set up a career action plan, |
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