What the Profiles do is allow you to take an in-depth look at 23 different business careers (listed below) and the interests, reward values, and abilities typically found in them. This tour allows access to the Management Consulting and Sales and Sales Management CareerLeader™ Profiles. Of course, users of the CareerLeader™ Profiles will have access to all 23 Profiles.

The CareerLeader™ Profiles

Accounting	Advertising Account Management
Commercial Banking	Corporate Finance
Corporate Training and Organizational Development	Entrepreneurship
Financial Planning and Stock Brokerage	General Management
Human Resource Management	Information Systems Management
Institutional Securities Sales	Investment Banking
Investment Fund (Portfolio Management and Securities Analysis)	Management Consulting
Marketing and Marketing Management	Non-Profits (Administrators in Government, Education and Human Services)
Private Equity Investment (including Venture Capital, Leveraged Buy-outs)	Production and Operations Management
Public Relations and Communications	Research and Development Management and New Product Development
Sales and Sales Management	Securities Trading
Strategic Planning and Business Development

The CareerLeader™ Profiles are especially useful if you are considering a wide range of possibilities for your next career step. Each Profile contains a comprehensive overview of the work done by individuals acutally working in that career; descriptions of the typical interests of those people; the work rewards available in the career; and the abilities necessary to succeed in it. By reading these CareerLeader™ Profiles you can compare your own CareerLeader™ assessment results with the opportunities available in these careers. Doing so will help you to identify both what the the expected pitfalls and the likely rewards will be for you in those careers.

If you were using CareerLeader™ you would by now have defined your career interest universe, then focused in on those areas of that universe that match your values and abilities, much as Jan did. In going through that process you would have probably arrived at one or more business career possibilities you'd like to explore. The CareerLeader™ Profilesallow you to carry out that exploration in a straightforward and time-efficient manner. In addition, the Personal High Matrix cells that apply to your interests would have provided you with specific recommendations of which CareerLeader™ Profiles to study. Of course, in addition to checking out specific Profiles that you might have already been thinking about or that CareerLeader™ recommended, you can also browse through other Profiles and let them stimulate your thinking. You might find something there that you haven't even considered as yet. Then you can begin talking to people in those careers -- and, having read the CareerLeader™ Profiles, do so with much better preparation. You will know better what questions to ask, and so get more and better information about the career (and be more impressive in the process, which never hurts).

We hope this tour has helped give you a sense of what CareerLeader™ and the CareerLeader™ Profiles can do for you as you plan your career.