Welcome to the
Career Testing Center
 My
name is Dr. Rob Sarmiento and I have been
coaching people for success since 1976.
Career coaching can help you clarify your
vision of what you want out of life, assess your
strengths and weaknesses, take charge of your
career, perhaps start a new career or business,
develop success skills, and make work a
meaningful part of your life, not just something
you do to because you have to.
In my coaching practice, I concentrate on
the following areas:
Career Testing
and Planning
 I
have administered and interpreted career tests
to over 2450 people.
These tests cover a range of issues
important in career planning, including
aptitudes, intelligence, thinking style,
interests, and personality.
These scientifically developed and
validated instruments help you take an objective
look at yourself, like looking in a mirror.
I also have you learn about many
different jobs; research the practical costs,
like job outlook, earnings potential and so on;
and talk to people doing the kinds of work you
are considering (for more on the specifics,
click on CAREER PLANNING).
More importantly, I help you get
“unstuck” by brainstorming about many
creative options such as self-employment,
combing things in new ways, and non-traditional
work arrangements.
I have found people often have many more
practical options than they think.
Most of us can find work that is fun and
meaningful without sacrificing success or
security. In
my experience, people make more money, have more
security and success, and even live longer doing
something they love that fits them, not to
mention being happier. For more about
this, click on "I'm
Grown and Still Don't Know What I Want To Be".
Self-Marketing/Self-Promotion
Being
focused and committed in your career is one of
the main components of achieving your goals.
 Nevertheless,
it is often helpful to learn how to promote
yourself and your ideas, both to find a job and
to get ahead in your work.
I have assisted hundreds of individuals
in learning how to effectively and ethically
market themselves, both through individual
coaching and teaching over 50 workshops. In my view, there are four main components to personal
marketing:
Planning, Packaging, Prospecting, and
Presenting.
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Planning
is like market research.
Instead of fishing for a job and
hoping something bites, pick your employer
and go after the job you really want.
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Packaging
has to do with how you present yourself, in
writing, on the phone and in person. This usually involves resume development, but the main
purpose of a resume is to define an
advertising theme or unique selling
proposition that positions you with respect
to your competition (see The
Best Resume).
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Prospecting
has to do with how you find people who want
what you have to offer.
This primarily involves learning how
to use networking to develop a circle of
personal contacts or affiliations for mutual
advantage.
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Presenting
has to do with “making the sale”,
whether it is a job interview, a promotion
or raise, or getting a choice assignment.
For
more about how to promote yourself, click on
"The Best Resume".
Winning at
Office Politics
 Many
of my coaching and executive clients have found
their career advancement blocked by office
politics. Over
the years, I have helped hundreds of these
highly qualified people learn how to “play the
game” without sacrificing their ethics and
professionalism.
Often this involves coming to two
important realizations.
The first is that politics is inevitable
and unavoidable.
I believe politics is part of human
biology and it simply reflects the reality of
the human dynamics that operate in groups of
people. The
second essential insight is that even though
some people play dirty politics, you don’t
have to stoop to such tactics to play the game
well. more
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Performance
Enhancement
Personal
and professional growth is a lifelong process.
In achieving growth, we face the task of
learning how to not get on our own way too much. Unfortunately, we human beings seem to have a talent for
blocking, limiting and sabotaging ourselves in
various creative ways.
The good news is you can learn how to
reduce self-sabotage.
Various interpersonal problems like
personality clashes, shyness, social anxiety,
poor communication skills, and interpersonal
conflict can limit and block your success.
Other common self-sabotaging traits
include performance or success anxiety,
procrastination, impatience, anger, self-doubt,
and unassertiveness.
To overcome these personal obstacles, I
coach people on using 22 performance-enhancing
psychotechnology training techniques. more
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Executive and
Professional Coaching
I
work with people on all walks of life, but many
of my clients are professionals or executives.
 Professionals
I have worked with include accountants, lawyers,
doctors, dentists, chiropractors, teachers,
engineers, geologists, geophysicists,
physicists, chemists, and many others.
I have also worked with executives at all
levels, including CEO’s, VP’s, and CFO’s,
as well as managers and supervisors of all
sorts.
For people in such demanding positions,
discrete, confidential, and objective coaching
can assist you in defining and achieving your
vision. Virtual
coaching can be at your convenience, with
minimal demands on your valuable time.
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Entrepreneurs
Over
the years, I have worked with many entrepreneurs
or would be entrepreneurs.
This involves helping you decide what
type of business you will have, and more
importantly, what your role will be in the
business. For established entrepreneurs, coaching can help you plan
future growth, assess yourself to help you
determine what you will do and won’t do in the
business, find employees or partners with
complementary strengths and weaknesses, help
develop teamwork and effective communication,
resolve conflicts, handle the pressure of rapid
growth, and balance work with the family,
spiritual, leisure, and health aspects of your
life.
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