Where Is My Coffee Cup?: A Workbook for Finding Your Preferred Job Setting

By Monica H. Schneider

This workbook is ideally suited for anyone seeking a satisfying job. The methods and
materials in this workbook can be successfully used by job seekers as well as career
counselors with their clients. It offers a practical and truthful guide for identifying
the most congruent person-environment fi t.
The approach was developed through my 20 year span of private practice as a career
counselor and educator in career development. My background is a doctorate in Industrial
Psychology with a particular emphasis on the person-environment fi t. Where is My Coffee
Cup? fi ts in a niche within the fi eld of career development. It is designed to readily help
people with career development and job search. The workbooks outcome suggests that
the more clarifi cation you have about what you want; the better the odds of finding
the job you want. Knowing what to communicate to others, about what you want, is a
powerful benefi t to the job seeker. The workbook offers self-assessment and explains
work search with an application to a critical factor in fi nding work satisfaction; the job
setting selection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483636337

Monica H. Schneider

Monica Schneider, PsyD, has been a career counselor in private practice and an instructor in Life Career Planning for over 25 years. As a career counselor in private practice, Monica studied the composition of job selection and job search in great detail. She designed and delivered numerous workshops on career development for Drake Beam Morin, an outplacement firm and the University of California, Irvine Graduate School of Management, and as an educator for Marylhurst University’s Career and Life Planning Studies. She established Personal Marketing, a training and development company that she managed for 10 years. Monica combined theory with practice to design this workbook to be used as a guide. She has personalized the experience of work search as a result of many of her own career and job changes and the work she has done with numerous persons in career transition. She is currently an instructor of Psychology at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus. Monica has a doctorate degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from United States International University.

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Where Is My Coffee Cup?

A Workbook for Finding Your Preferred Job Setting

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ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4836-3631-3

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Rev. date: 08/02/2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Hazy Goals Produce Hazy Results

The Search for Congruence

17593.jpg Design for Congruence 17591.jpg Hourglass Model of Career Planning

Part 1. Assess Yourself and What You Want

17589.jpg Define Your Personality Characteristics 17587.jpg Job Satisfaction Considerations

17585.jpg Identify Your Strengths and Skills 17583.jpg Define the Values You Want in a Job Setting

17581.jpg This Is Me 17579.jpg Identify Your Desired Job Setting 17577.jpg This Is My Ideal Job Setting

Part 2. Identify What Is Out There

Part 3. Search for the Job Setting

17575.jpg Work-Search Pie 17573.jpg My Game Plan 17571.jpg Checklist

Mastering the Job Search

Lifestyle and Career Development

17569.jpg Especially If You Are a Midlifer

New Thoughts on Keeping the Nearly Perfect Job

References and Resources

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Hazy Goals Produce Hazy Results

Hazy goals produce hazy results. When I first heard this short quote, it had a profound impact on me. I realized that my being unclear and imprecise about the process of finding a job would have to change. At the time, I believed I needed to take whatever job anyone would give me rather than think I could identify a detailed account of what I wanted in the first place.

Describing preferences and desires might seem like an ill-afforded luxury, especially when feeling worried, stretched for cash, and intimidated before the beast called Job Hunt! Even in prosperous times, detailing the best-case scenario may seem to make sense only for those who have nothing to lose by defining their job wish list. In either case, it is easy to presume we are lucky to get any job -