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With back-to-school in full swing, I’ve been indulging in my obsession with planners. I’ve discussed in a previous post how much I love anything having to do with office supplies (read more on: 28 Best Sites for Office Supplies).
As I’m going from one office supply store to the other, both online and offline, here are 12 of my favorite picks when it comes to planners for working women.
I was very curious about Erin Condren planners after hearing so much about them. The colors and patterns are absolutely unique and gorgeous, not to mention the included motivational notes and quotes.
The line offers the famous Life Planners, along with monthly, academic, teacher’s lessons, and even wedding planners. The Life Planner is my personal favorite, as it offers the option of a customized cover, layout, and even coil options in black, rose gold, and platinum. You can also choose between the 12 or 18-month format.
Back in 2010, girlboss Whitney English couldn’t find a planner that would fulfill her needs, so she created Day Designer. The result? A streamlined planner that eliminates all the clutter and helps you focus on what’s really important to you.
We can’t talk about planners without thinking of the classic Moleskine planners. Created back in 1997, this classic line of daily, weekly, and monthly planners is as chic as it is timeless. Whenever you use one of these, remember that geniuses the likes of Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway have also used them!
Limelife Planners’ modern and clean design will win your hears, and conquer your schedule. I love the contemporary design and uncluttered format. It’s easy to use, clear to read and organize too.
These fun Brit + Co planners from Target come with monthly and weekly calendars, to-do lists, activity pages, and blank pages if you just feel like doodling away. The best part? Target also carries a line of accessories that you can mix and match your planners with!
The Designs by Planner perfect is a fun, eclectic and effective line of plan books, goal books, and other stationery products. They’re perfect for the busy mom on the go, or the career woman in need of planning help.
Anthropologie has a pretty cool selection of planners and calendars. One of my favorites is the Happiness 100-Day Planner. What I love about it is that it focuses on positive thinking and personal progress. It’s a great tool to reflect and set your goals.
The Passion Planners come in both dated and undated formats, and even offer an academic planner option. Additionally, each one of these amazing planners start with a compelling prompt to set your short- and long-term goals. You are then encouraged to break these goals into actionable plans to accomplish them. Pretty effective for a planner, right?
Why not add style to your planner? The Kate Spade Cameron agenda is as effective as it’s stylish. Its petite size fits in most handbags, and the zip-around structure protects it to last longer.
The Start Planner is great for entrepreneurs, as it includes sections for budgeting, holiday planning and monthly shopping. In general, everyone can use it to set and accomplish goals.
The Daily Action Planner is perfect if you need to have all your priorities in one place! Whether you’re a busy working mom, an entrepreneur on-the-go or an executive, this planner will help you set goals one month at a time.
Considered as one of the most stunning and comprehensive business planners, the Daily Greatness Planner is perfect for busy business and career women. It encourages you to develop great thinking habits with a focus on personal growth and organization.
Our Workwear feature presents various pieces of workwear at different price ranges and sizes.
This Ted Baker architectural pencil dress from is the epitome of the Power Dress.The long, lean silhouette of the dress is stylishly interrupted by the chic peplum detail. The cap sleeves and stretch comfort of the dress make this a smart, yet elegant choice for work and play.
In similar styles, I also like this Kezzia Bow Neck Body-Con Dress, also from Ted Baker, available in red and black. For those who prefer bold prints (which by the way are coming back in stylet his Fall), this Painted Posie sheath dress is an absolute workwear winner!
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Workwear Pick: Wide-Sleeve V-Neck Top – Photo credit: anntaylor.com
Our Workwear Pick feature presents various pieces of workwear at different price ranges and sizes.
This Ann Taylor wide sleeve V-neck top is can be dressed down for casual Fridays or dressed up for a meeting at the office. The puff sleeves are extremely elegant, while the tie-back adds a touch of unexpected flair. It’s perfect to take from work to week-end in a puff (no pun intended)…
Wear to Work: Wide-Sleeve V-Neck Top – Photo credit: anntaylor.com
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Wondering which career is the best fit for you? These 30 personality assessments with help you find the career you want;
I’ve always been addicted to office supplies. I remember as a kid looking forward to back-to-school trips at our local office supply stores with such anticipation and excitement. As a working woman and mom, I still look forward to the back-to-school, and other occasional online and offline trips to satisfy my office supply addiction.
If you’re into fashionable and girly office supplies, you must shop at Olivia Sophia Inc. From original planners and inspirational cups, they’ve got it all..
Original, bold office supplies that will make you take another look, is what you’ll find at Effie’s Paper. This black-woman owned business is a pleasure to shop in!
Ranked #1 for online school supplies, Innovative Supplies offers cutting-edge and inspiring supplies. The best part? It makes a positive impact to the community by hiring high school students.
If you’re addicted to pens like I am, you will love Tokyo Pen Shop. They offer precise pens and pencils in a variety of colors and options. Your desk will never be the same!
Twistop is a source of office products for all kinds of offices. Their offerings span from ink, paper, office supplies, to furniture and even custom stamps.
Ranked as UK’s #1 spot for innovative and exciting stationery, Paperchase offers a rare selection of stylish office supplies. The unique designs are as attractive as they are practical.
As its name indicates, Glam and Paper is all about office supplies with glam! From distinctive notebooks to fun and girly accessories, there is great choice for everyone!
Rifle Paper offers collections of eclectic office supplies and other accessories perfect for the modern woman. The unique designs are practical enough to sport every day.
How many times have you wondered about finding the career you want? Or asked yourself if the career you’re in is a good fit for your personality? There are actually effective personal assessment tools out there to help match you with the career of your dreams.
Understanding your personality, strengths, interests, and values, is critical when picking or transitioning careers. It doesn’t require you to go on some soul-searching journey into the depths of your being. Actually, it can be as simple as using career assessment tools to find out what your best career matches are. Some of these tools are administered by professionals; however, they can be taken alone to get a sense of what your ideal career is.
Here are 30 career assessment tools that will come in handy when you or anyone around you asks the question: “How do I figure out the career I really want?”
One of the most popular and well-known career assessment tools out there is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This assessment describes 16 different personality traits, and identifies basic personality differences. That’s how I found out I was an introvert after many years of questioning my social skills at work.
This Values Assessment will help you learn more about what your real motivations are in your career. It will measure and rank various components of work, to help you understand which jobs or industries fit your style.
This personality assessment test measures people according to their temperament: “artisan, rational, idealist, and guardian.” If you’re ready to go through the 71 questions (yes, it’s pretty long), you’ll get more insight into how you really communicate and what your actions tend to be.
This free personality test is inspired by the Myers-Briggs test. It will help you gain insight into your type of personality as related to your ability to form and maintain relationships. The good part? It should only take about 12 minutes to take.
As its name indicates, this assessment tool divides people into five categories: openness, extraversion, agreeability, neuroticism, and openness. It helps you pinpoint your learning style, work preferences, and includes a few hilarious questions too.
With this tool, you’ll be able to rank school subjects and activities you enjoy, as well as qualities you have. Your interests are then matched to a certain career cluster to reveal what type of work is the best fit for you.
This assessment test is sponsored by the U.S Department of Labor, and will help you pinpoint your work interests. The drawback? It has a total of 60 questions, so get ready!
This career assessment is perfect if you hate your job, or are just out of school or college. While it has a free component, the paid “starter package” costs $90 to get a list of your top 20 career matches. If you want the whole enchilada, you may have to fork over $149.95 for the “executive package”, which includes a full 30-page assessment and over 900 career matches. The free test matches you to five potential careers, which is not a bad start.
This personality assessment pinpoints the area you’re the most interested in career-wise, and translates it into suitable career interests. This is also one of the longer ones, with a total of 87 questions!
This test identifies your most prevalent workplace behaviors, in order to highlight your management style. It’s also based on your primary personality traits.
This unique app’s purpose takes you through a series of quizzes to help you uncover your personality traits and match you to your ideal career. It also helps you learn to work better with others.
This powerful test is meant to help you discover your own Enneagram type to understand your personality and the ways in which you operate. There are nine different Enneagram types, and your test results place you in one definite category.
This personality assessment, based on the Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance factors (DISC), is geared at providing insight into your communication style as well as ways to build stronger relationships with co-workers. It’s relatively quick and is composed of only 12 questions.
The Self-Directed Search categorizes people and jobs into 6 categories: realistic, investigative, social, artistic, conventional, or enterprising. It will help you narrow down the 3 types that best fit you and a list of matching careers. It costs $9.95.
This survey helps you uncover your best qualities in about 15 minutes. It’s based on a scientific assessment of character strengths to help you understand your core traits. Unlike many tests focusing on your shortcomings, the VIA survey focuses on your best qualities.
Based on a series of mind games, this career assessment tool measures your social and cognitive traits. You’ll end up with a list of your strengths and weaknesses, which can guide you towards your ideal careers.
This tool is a series of activities developed by the Johnson O’Connor Foundation for Oprah. It tests different skills and your strengths in it. The result is a list of jobs and careers which might fit you best based on your performance.
If you’re a college student, this personal assessment test is for you. It will give you an idea of what you’re already good at, and will point you to talent themes to achieve your goals. It costs $9.99.
This free Buzzfeed career quiz is not as comprehensive as the other tools in this list. Yet, it’s a quick way to gain some insight into your career match in between tasks during the day.
This personal assessment tool helps you uncover your strengths and weaknesses, how you communicate and how much value you add to any team. It’s based on a fun color game system to highlight your personality and style of interaction with others.
Dubbed as the world’s “leading behavioral style model”, this personality assessment tool’s goal is to help build more effective relationships. It has been used by thousands of organizations to improve leadership performance.
This romantically sounding tool will help you discover your own love language, so you can improve your relationships. 15 million people have already used this tool to connect better with others.
CareerHunter helps you explore your abilities and interests through 6 self-assesment tools. At the end of this very comprehensive process, you get a full career report suggesting your best career matches. It costs $9.99.
The Sokanu Career test is a free platform that takes you through some great career tests to help you discover how compatible you are with over 800 careers. It looks at five dimensions, including your workplace, personality, interests, history and career goals, to compare your test results with certain career paths’ characteristics.
This personal assessment tool highlights your work personality and ideal work environment. It guides you towards your perfect career. It also provides career research tips, as well as advice to get into the fields you’re most compatible with. Note there’s a free version as well as a paid one (the paid version is $11.99).
Renowned Psychology Today has come up with its own career assessment tool. The test contains a total of 240 questions, and matches you with one career field at the end of it. However, you can purchase the full report with more career matches.
You can find your unique career code with this career assessment tool. It’s composed of 180 true or false questions, and promises to provide you with a list of careers compatible with your interests. It’s priced at $49.95.
The Princeton Review came up with a 24-question career quiz, requiring you to pick the best answer to pinpoint your career wants. It’s relatively easy yet very revealing.
This career assessment tool takes a look at your skills and interests to help you narrow down your ideal career. It uses seven measures of ability including science, mechanical, mathematics, managerial, communication, interpersonal and artistic.
This personality assessment calculates your personal DISC profile, based on the Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance factors (DISC). It helps you build your own personality profile quickly, while analyzing your typical behavior.
What other career assessment tools would you recommend?
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