Thursday, May 13, 2010

Maximize Career Discovery - The Noun Window List Assessment

Some of your strengths are nouns. They might also be considered passions or things you love. For example: spreadsheets and bedsheets, houses and horses, computers and candy, Microsoft and music, applications and antiques. They might be called your areas of expertise or at least the areas you know something about. They are specialized knowledge stored in your brain – which you may think of as a giant filing cabinet, at your disposal. You have internalized these over time, through life experience, school, apprenticeships, reading, study, or from coaches and teachers. It doesn't how you got them. Which ones are you passionate about?

One way to identify your “noun” strengths is to notice what section of a bookstore you gravitate to. Another wood be to look through the yellow pages of the phone book. And another would be to go through a list like this one and circle or highlight those things that excite you.  As you read the list slowly, mark the ones that make your heart begin to race!  Then copy them down in your notebook.

Advertisements Aerospace Agriculture Aids Alarms Ambulances Anesthesiology Animals

Anthropology Antiques Apartments Apparel Apple Appliances Applications

Appraisal Arbitration Architecture Art Asia Assembly Associations Astronomy Auction

Audio/Video Authors Automobiles Aviation Baked-Goods Bath Beauty Beds Beer Beverage

Bible Biology Blacktop Blogs Boats Bonds Bottles Bovine-Semen Breeds Business Cafeterias

Candy Capitol Caps/Hats Carpet Cars Cement Charity Chemicals Chemistry Children Choir

Church Citrus Cleaning Clergy Coatings Code Coins College Colors Commodities

Companies Computers Construction Contracts Copy Cosmetology Cotton Criminal-Justice

Curtains Dairy Dance Data Decoration Dentistry Departments Dermatology Design

Development Diamonds Dirt Disease Display Distribution Docks Donuts Drama Drinks

Economics Education Electricity Electronics Employment Energy Engineering Engines

England Entertainment Environment Equipment Escorts Excavation Exercise Export Fabric

Facilities Farms Fashion Feeding Fiction Files Film Finance Fire Fish Fitness Fixtures

Flowers Food Forests Foundations Franchise Freight Fruit Fuel Funds Funerals Furnishings

Furniture Games Garbage Gas Gems Geography Geology Glass Government Grades

Grain Graphics Gravel Groceries Hair Hardware Health Health-Care Heat History Homes

Horses Houses Housing Human-Resources Import Infants Information Injury Insects Israel

Installation Instruments Insurance Internet Invention Investment Irrigation Janitorial Jazz

Jewelry Jobs Journalism Kitchens Labor Laboratories Lamination Land Landscape

Language Laundry Law Lease Lecture Legislation Linux Liquor Literature Loans Lobbies

Lumber Machines Macs Magazines Mail Management Manufacture Maps Marinas

Marketing Math Mattresses Meat Medicine Men Merchandise Metal Micro-Electronics

Microsoft Middle East Mines Mobile-Homes Motion Motorcycles Motors Motor-Sports

Moving Music Mutual-Funds Negotiation Newsletters Newspapers Non-Profit Nursing

Nutrition Office Oil Organization Orthopedics Paint Paper Parks Parts Patents Pavement

PC’s People Performance Personnel Petroleum Pharmaceuticals Philosophy Photography

Physics Pictures Pizza Plans Plants Plastics Plumbing Politics Population Poultry Poverty

Pre-School Print Process Produce Production Property-Management Psychiatry Psychology

Public- Relations Publishing Race-Tracks Radio Radiology Railroads Ranches Real-Estate

Recruitment Religion Removal Repair Research Restaurants Retail Rock Roofs Sales

Salvage Sand Sand-Blast Sanitation Schools Science Scrap Scripts Seafood Service

Service-Stations Ships Shrubs Signs Skin Sociology Software Specialty Speech

Speedways Sports Stamps Statistics Steel Stocks Storage Storyboards Supply Surgery

Survey Talent Taxes Taxidermy Technology Television Text-Books Textiles Theatre

Theology Therapy Timber Tobacco Toddlers Tools Trade Transportation Travel Trees

Trucks Trusts Vacation Vegetables Vehicles Vending Vocation Wallpaper Waste Water Websites

Welding Wholesale Wine Women Words Yard-Sales Youth Zoology
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