Shifting Into Higher Gear: An Owner's Manual for Uniting Your Calling and Career

by Jeff Caliguire and Tom Siciliano

Book Overview

Discover this step-by-step plan to match your strengths and interests with a career that will fulfill you for a lifetime. Shifting into Higher Gear creates a pathway to minimize the stress and confusion of seeking the right job. The book presents a comprehensive three-stage program for discovering your calling, turning that calling into a career, and sustaining your passion once you?re in the job of your dreams. Grounded in Biblical wisdom,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787973726
• ISBN13: 9780787973728
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Unique Addition to Career Pathfinding

"Shifting Into Higher Gear" will help my counseling of young men and women who are pondering their career options. It not only includes "how to get a job," but starts the journey by breaking ground in the much harder "based on my values, passions, and calling, which job(s) should [I] seek?" Many people I counsel use relatively few parameters to evaluate work options. Money, prestige, and expediency direct most people. But if you're trying to add the critical dimensions of self-actualization and/or expressing God's work through your gifts, this is the book for you. Included are a recap of what Spiritual Gifts are and how to combine them with deep interests to find your sweet spot. I'd also recommend Marcus Buckingham's "Now, Discover Your Strengths," because it complements these efforts. But Siciliano and Caliguire reach further. Their appropriately named book is a valuable addition to the space because it will help many people in their quest for "Shifting Into Higher Gear."

A Virtual One Stop Career Center

Shifting Into Higher Gear offers a pragmatic, contemporary approach to finding meaningful employment that's right for you. Presented like a Road Map for Success, you'll find this book to be an excellent resource as you frame your thought process and plan your next career move upward and onward. Bought several copies as gifts for recent college grads. A great value at $16.95.

Read it twice!

I think Shifting into Higher Gear can be the starting point for finally finding the job or position that a person can be excited and passionate about. The authors do a great job of laying out the process and mindset needed to prepare for, find and keep the "right job". The focus on a person's spiritual health and the role it plays in your career made a particularly important impact on me. I have bought several copies of this book to give to my friends and associates who need that little nudge to make a move for a better career.

A comprehensive guide to finding your career calling

This book provides a practical guide to finding your "ideal" career. It doesn't focus on a job position, compensation, or power but rather focuses on which career/calling could truly make you happy. It is a book that can be used at any stage of your career or even in retirement. I have sent copies of the book to my son and son-in-law and they are already using it. The book works because it makes you think differently about how to look at your career.It will open your eyes to possibilities you may have never considered.

Inspiring! Thoughtful! Helped Me Market Me!

I read it in just one weekend. This book was easy to understand, follow and relate to. It uses familiar examples and was a great read. And the spiritual aspect was refreshing and helped me take an authentic look at what matters most. I recommmend it highly for you or for someone you care about.