CliftonStrengths for Students: Your Strengths Journey Begins Here

Product details

• Hardcover : 224 pages
• Product Dimensions : 5 x 0.9 x 7 inches
• Publisher : Gallup Press; Har/Psc Edition (July 25, 2017)
• Language: : English

College is a chance for you to start fresh. You get to learn and grow in ways that will amaze you. You get to write your own story.

So what do you want your college story to be?

As a student, you have the opportunity every day to search for patterns in your actions, learn from them and use them to make the most of your life experiences, now and in the future. To do that, you need a solid understanding of where and when you’re at your best: your strengths.

CliftonStrengths for Students will help you discover and develop your strengths — and reach your full potential.

This book includes an access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment. After you take the assessment, you’ll get a list of your top five themes of talent, which are the themes you lead with. Once you know what your leading themes are, you can begin to turn them into strengths.

CliftonStrengths for Students will also give you suggestions for developing and using your strengths in college and in the real world. If you understand and apply your strengths, your college journey — and the rest of your life — will be happier, more fulfilling and more successful. That’s the point of developing your strengths. When you do more of what you do best, you build your life around your areas of greatness.

J. Watkins

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Much Substance

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

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To start, I'm annoyed that I had to purchase this book for a required course for my undergraduate degree. For one, I think the class is a waste of money, two, this doesn't bring a lot to the table for older people who already have established careers and probably took personality testing like this at some point for their job.

That being said, I wish I had just purchased the code to take the test, I would have saved a few bucks. There's really not a whole lot of substance once you get past taking the assessment. It's not going to tell you what you should be when you grow up, or how to achieve success or greatness, it's mainly just for self-awareness.

And with that, there are so many great online resources and personality tests for free, all it takes is a few minutes to look them up. And they can provide more information for you beyond what this book can provide. I think this would be good for a high schooler, maybe as preparation for attending college. Just to see, what kind of person am I what is going to motivate me.

pamela fitzgerald

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for figuring out your academic or blue-collar path

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2018

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This is such a wonderful tool for helping young people understand their own pedagogical (or VoTech)desires. The qualities that are cataloged helped the college bound young adults that I am mentoring reflect on their short lives, on behaviors and quirks and odd feelings they had around peers, and grasp new insights into their own perspective towards education. Finding out that you highly value a small set of traits that most other people don’t value in the same way can be uniquely powerful for them, since only a few people on the planet share that strengths profile in the same order of passion, and can help them understand their perspective and deep values, and help them understand the needs of their fellow community members at a much more resonant level. The non college bound protégé is my favorite, because he embodies the final verse of “Golddigger” by Kanye ft. J.Foxx- “he got that ambition baby, look in his eyes, this week he sweeping floors, next week it’s the fries”. He has zero desire for college but his Achiever and Responsibility means that he can reach a pretty good life by pursuing his current passion for food and service.