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Mid Career Advancement Resources and services to help you advance your career, or launch a successful job search.

Training and Products For counselors, coaches and educators to equip others for career advancement.
Human Resource Services For Human Resource professionals and business owners to maximize TEAM.
Ministry Services Resources and services to assist churches, non-profits and ministry professionals to maximize ministry.

Training and Products Resources and services to equip colleges, universities and seminaries to retain students, maximize placement and support alumni.

Mid Career Advancement
Its never too late to find your ideal calling, whether you are fifty plus in a dead end job or still attending college, IDAK can help you find the career and also the organization which fits you best. Discover how IDAKs Mid-Career Advancement Advantage can lead you to a rewarding and purposeful new career path that is uniquely matched to your life passion, work values and natural talent strengths.

Training and Products
Explore the IDAK Groups full line of counseling, coaching and training resources for professionals who provide counseling and consulting services in career guidance, outplacement, mid-career advancement counseling, and organizational counseling.

Human Resource Services
Maximize the TEAM cooperation and interdependence of your workplace through IDAKs training and assessment resources. We help business owners, HR professionals, pastors and churches with hiring, management screening, performance auditing and outplacement services to produce a highly efficient workforce team.

IDAKs unique assessment services and over 30 years of experience working with individuals, ministry organizations and churches can help maximize the strengths of each leader as well as build trust and respect within the ministry team .

IDAK can equip your college or seminary to increase student retention and dramatically improve job placement before graduation. IDAK resources can help strengthen your campus bond with alumni and also attract second career students .

Talent Discovery Guide
The Talent Discovery Guide is popular with seminars and small study groups. It provides an assessment (approx 1 1/2 hours for completion) which is supplemented by a seminar leader’s or discussion group leader’s instruction. This assessment is not intended for an individual’s self assessment as it does not include any application instructions. Training for use of the TDG is recommended.

Discovering Your Natural Talents (Book)
This book is designed for small group study and discussion. It is written for a church group setting and provides applications of natural talents for self awareness, marriage, friendships, job and hobbies. This book can also be used by an individual without the group discussion.

Online Talent Discovery Guide
The on-line Talent Discovery Guide provides a very helpful assessment of an individual’s natural talents. It also provides a cross validation questionnaire. Results can be forwarded to a second party such as an employer. Talent strengths are also provided with in-depth explanations as how each one applies to one’s optimum job duties. Organizations use the on-line Talent Discovery guide as part of their new hire screening.

Career Match (Instrument)
The IDAK Career match is IDAK ‘s premier assessment and career matching instrument. This exercise matches your career passion , and talent strengths to over 90,000 career options and sorts the ten best. Both ideal organization descriptions as well as recommended job titles in those organizations are provided. The results are pre-coded to facilitate a link to an exhaustive list of compatible names of companies and organizations in your city.

Companies and non profits use the Validation interview in combination with the on-line Talent Discovery Guide or IDAK Career Match to provide an even higher level of talent assessment validity. Training to learn the Talent Validation interview is needed.

The Autobiographical Interview is our highest level of talent assessment validity. It provides a near fool proof evaluation of a person’s talents virtually eliminating one’s personal or occupational bias. Training to learn the Autobiographical Interview is required.

To understand the range of services we provide, hover over a number or percentage on the graph below. You have a choice as to the level of validation you want to pursue.

IDAK provides six different levels of talent assessment tools and services.
At the heart of any aptitude assessment system is a core of assumptions about behavior and potential. We believe every person is created with innate natural talent strengths. When properly identified, these talents can lead individuals to their career sweet spots. Companies and organizations can learn to design job descriptions which bring out the best in each person’s strengths and promote a TEAM workforce.

You Can Shoot Yourself in the Foot and Not Know It
One of the most common mistakes a person makes in job interviewing is checking out the employer. This is a very natural thing to do, yet it keeps a person unemployed for a long time. The pattern begins when a person is dismissed from their job. The reason doesnt matter, but what does matter is [...]

Volunteering – Does this get you “in”?
As the job market continues to be tight, some of my clients have asked about volunteering as a way to get their foot in the door. A few clients have commented that they had read that this was recommended. One stated that she was encouraged, by a networking event facilitator, to pursue this option.