This book consists of a number of exercises designed to help you to analyse and develop your personal skills, aptitudes and ambitions. It provides the key to a number of essential career development skills, including: Knowing Yourself; Learning from Experience; Research Skills; Setting Objectives and Making Action Plans; Making Decisions; Looking after Yourself; and, Communicating. In carrying out the exercises in this book you will discover what is important to you about your work, your interests, your transferable skills, and your most comfortable career pattern. You will be helped to set personal and career objectives and make action plans to take greater charge of yourself and your life. Using a new system for classifying jobs and courses devised specifically for this book, your own personal profile can be checked against jobs, education and training opportunities and leisure pursuits to help widen your range of possibilities.

'Happiness' is suddenly on everyone's lips - even politician's! But it has been the eternal quest of every generation since the first human beings. How to find it, how to keep it, how to help others find it. People have sought happiness through wealth, power, success, travel, love and passion, security, adventure, beauty - indeed every aspect of life. All that energy and experience has proved that there are no easy answers, no magic formulas. But what we do have now, to accompany the wisdom of the ages, is modern, scientific evidence from Positive Psychology. We now do have the answers to the questions: "How achievable is happiness?" "What are the components of happier living?" "What are the strengths, attitudes and skills of those who live happy, creative, flourishing lives? "How can we live happier? We offer these and more in this book.