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What Is out There for Me?
The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2020)
For researchers considering a career switch, the open job market often feels as remote and uncertain as dark wood or outer space. To be happy at work, you need to find a job aligned with your values that gives you a feeling of belonging, purpose, appreciation, safety, and excitement. So many conditions need to be met to develop a sense of job satisfaction! For those contemplating a transition from advanced studies in academia, an overriding question looms with far-reaching practical and emotional consequences: How do I navigate and accomplish the change as smoothly as possible and with minimal stress?
This book aims to give you an overview of what you can (and might not even think of!) after completing a PhD and a vista of directions you might consider to develop a happy, fulfilling professional life. It explores not only the scope of high-level employment in which PhDs usually excel but also provides broad descriptions of the working cultures formed in the job market and their characteristic behaviors. Do you fit corporate denizens committed to the analysis and improvement of operations under prescribed goals? Or perhaps you are drawn to entrepreneurs who create goals of their own? In this book, you will find open questions and self-discovery exercises that will help to clarify your true inclinations and their affinities. You might find something wonderful in these explorations and their implications for your path into the future!
For PhD candidates and graduates who ponder their options for their professional future.
9.99 EUR + VAT
The Ontology of Value®:
Discovering Your Source of Value for the Society and Working Environments That Naturally Fit You
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2021)
„The Ontology of Value: Discovering Your Source of Value for the Society and Working Environments That Naturally Fit You” is an official booklet of The Ontology of Value® Test. Take the test to discover your natural way of creating value for others in the job market and the tribes in the job market that would fit you best and appreciate you the most! Gaining this self-awareness will have a tremendous impact on your professional life! It will help you find your edge and skillfully self-navigate in today’s complex job market. Once you choose positions that resonate with your natural potential, you will excel and thrive!
The Ontology of Value® Test is a powerful tool for professionals, rooted in Alfred Adler’s school of psychology. Its central concept is that we all have a strong inner motivation to build value for others and prove ourselves to the world — in our ways. The test was developed using psychometrics combined with machine learning and validated on a representative population of professionals working in 14 countries and representing all market sectors. You can also receive this ebook in a package together with The Ontology of Value® Test.
For anyone who wants to discover their natural way of creating value as professionals and make the best out of their potential.
9.99 EUR + VAT
How To Navigate in the Job Market And Shine in the Job Interviews
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2022)
“How To Navigate in the Job Market and Shine in the Job Interviews” is a supporting booklet of The Ontology of Value® Test. Have you had difficulty finding the right career opportunities and selling yourself at job interviews? Have you ever wondered why some people constantly win the job while you struggle to win the recruiter’s heart? Do you feel undervalued in your career?
This comprehensive guidebook lists advice for approaching job applications and interviews that will guide you through the job search and job application process. It will provide you with all the information necessary to get through the job search and job application process with flying colors and land your next contract! You can also receive this ebook in a package together with The Ontology of Value® Test.
For anyone who wishes to learn the efficient and proven techniques to search for and land jobs like a pro. This is for the go-getters who wish to make the best next move in the career development game and dare to aim high.
9.99 EUR + VAT
Back to The Future of Work:
Redefining Human Purpose in Times of AI
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2026)
For anyone who dares to make an educated guess on the future of the labor market in the post-AI era and seeks a carer with purpose.
Back to The Future of Work: Redefining Human Purpose in Times of AI explores what meaningful work looks like when artificial intelligence reshapes roles, skills, and organizations. It offers a strategic lens on how professionals can stay relevant, reclaim purpose, and design careers that create lasting human value in the post-AI labor market.About The Book
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The Longest Journey:
The Ultimate Guide To Self-Navigation in the Job Market
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2027)
For anyone who wishes to skillfully plan their career and self-navigate in today’s job market. For those who want to learn how to play and excel at the career development game in the times of AI.
The Longest Journey: The Ultimate Guide To Self-Navigation in the Job Market is a practical playbook for planning and steering your career with intention. It brings together self-discovery, market strategy, and decision frameworks so you can navigate complexity—and the AI era—without losing direction.About The Book
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Grit’n’Grind:
The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Success
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2028)
For anyone who wants to become a free spirit in today’s gig-AI-cloud economy.
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How To Monetize Your Knowledge And Start a Side-Kick Consultancy Business
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2022)
Have you ever thought to yourself, “I enjoy my job—If only it paid a few hundred dollars more, I would be pleased about my professional situation…”? Well, the good news is that you can develop a side-kick consultancy business for this purpose – right here, right now! As a side-activity, a consulting business can broaden your horizons, work for your professional development, and let you earn extra bucks at high hourly rates without taking too much commitment.
And you can achieve this goal in 5 simple steps! In this ebook, we will explain how to get the first deals and negotiate your conditions to gain a good experience as a consultant.
For anyone who wishes to turn their knowledge into a profitable side-kick business, repair their finances, and possibly develop a full-fledged consultancy business in the future.
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Winning Answers To The Top 16 Questions That Recruiters Love To Ask
Natalia Z. Bielczyk (2022)
Going through a job interview is an obligatory step in the recruitment process for any knowledge worker these days. It is like an obligatory oral exam that we must pass before shaking hands on the contract.
So, how do you prepare for job interviews? Some questions often reappear in the recruitment process, which are hard to answer without preparation. This ebook reviews these questions and provides efficient tips on how to amaze the recruiter with the answer.
For anyone who is preparing for a job interview and looking for guidelines for how to become an irresistible job candidate.
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Recommended Books By Other Authors: Books For Job Hunters
What Color is Your Parachute?
Richard N. Bolles
This book has been on the top of the bestseller list for over 40 years now (with a new edition coming out every August). And it is not without a reason! This book was a breakthrough in the self-help literature–it was the first book about the job search process which put the focus not on writing job applications but rather, on self-discovery.
This book is very practical and focused on results. It gives an overview of effective strategies for passing job interviews. It is also a collection of self-discovery exercises that will give you insight into seven important aspects of your professional life, from your preferred working conditions and types of people you resonate with, all the way to your life purpose. Highly recommended read, especially if you have no clue where to go next.
Do What You Are:
Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron, Kelly Tieger
Today, it is not a secret that we are all different. Some of us are extroverted, while some of us are introverted. Some of us enjoy fast-paced working environments, while some of us prefer peaceful and cozy working conditions. Some of us enjoy working for a charismatic leader while some of us prefer to be independent. Yet, the job market welcomes all of us. Therefore, there is nothing like “a perfect job” or “the best job”–your job should match you.
So, how to best choose a job that matches your personality? This book is based on the classic “16 Personalities” Myers-Briggs model based on the Jung’s psychology and will help you analyze your personality and behavior to make better career choices.
How To Be Everything?
A Guide for Those Who (Still) Don’t Know What They Want to Be When They Grow Up
Emilie Wapnick
Perhaps you have a few jobs behind but you never really develop the feeling of job satisfaction. In every job you ever had, something was always missing.
This book might give you an explanation for why it is the case. Some people are multipotentiates: they represent multiple talents and can fully develop only if they combine or juggle multiple professions at a time. Juggling a few professions is not a piece of cake but efficient strategies introduced in this book will help you in organizing your life as a multipotentiate. So, perhaps, before you start looking for the next job, it is worth asking yourself the question: am I a multipotentiate? If so, how can I choose jobs to best use my potential?
Books On Broad Professional Development
How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Time Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
Dale Carnegie
We can be our best friend, but we can also be our worst enemy. All because of worrying way too much. It can take away most of your life energy, and eat a few hours of your day–every day. Worrying way too much throughout a lifetime is what many people regret the most at the deathbed. So, how to get over your worries and start enjoying life for real? As a matter of fact, there will always be external circumstances that make our future uncertain. But we tend to inflate our uncertainties and fears and imagine worse scenarios than anything that might potentially ever happen in a real life. It is good to get conscious about the worst possible outcome and realize how ridiculous most of our fears are. Extensive worrying is a disease and it’s good to heal from it as soon as you can.
Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Today, we are conditioned to think that to be successful, we need to (1) find our passion, (2) build our online presence and acquire a network. We often follow that route only to discover that… we still cannot find a job.
Why is that? Well, what the employers want is not strictly “passion.” What they primarily want is high-quality work that can only be done if you fully focus your attention on what you do, rather than exchanging tons of superficial pieces of information on social media. It’s good to be aware of these employers’ point of view, and work on your ability to focus and efficiently perform deep work. This will highly leverage your value as an employee regardless of the market sector you are working at!
Rich Dad Poor Dad
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert Kiyosaki
How can we feel confident as professionals if we are not financially safe? This iconic book is all about financial illiteracy associated with the public education system. The author, Robert Kiyosaki, has written this book using the comparison between his own Dad–a highly educated yet poor individual with a PhD–and the Dad of his best friend–a poorly educated yet highly entrepreneurial and wealthy person.
What Robert found out is that we are not taught anything about money and wealth at school. To be financially safe, or financially free, you need to get this education all by yourself. this book will teach you about the difference between assets and liabilities, and give you a basics understanding of the economy. A highly recommended read for everyone who considers themselves a beginner in terms of strategies for saving and investing your money.
The 4-Hour Work Week
Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
This classic book challenged the status quo in the job market and gave millions of people a new vision for their professional life. Before the internet era, anyone who thought seriously about their career had to spend at least 40 hours per week as an (office) employee to get their paycheck.
Now, in times of e-commerce, it is possible to leverage the value of your work so that you can get your income even when you sleep. This allowed the whole class of people to become “the new rich:” shrink their working to the minimum and acquire plenty of quality time in their lives. Would you like to join the new rich? This book is a wonderful introduction for why you should consider this lifestyle, and how to start.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R. Covey
Regardless if you are wealthy or poor, famous or not, your day only has 24 hours. It is the same for Elon Musk, Barack Obama, or Bill Gates as it is for you or me. So, how does it happen that some people can shake out so much out of their working day compared to all the others? Well, the mindset and daily habits. Even though effective people represent different professions, backgrounds, and different visions, they share many personality traits and outlook on life. For instance, they develop a character ethic–they start from what they represent before they go out to the outer world to present their work to others. They are also proactive and focus on their circle of influence rather than being concerned with what they cannot change and are good at selecting tasks that serve their ultimate purposes. You can gain a lot in inspirational lessons from this book that will make you more successful as a professional!
Eat That Frog!
21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Brian Tracy
Why do people procrastinate? Is it because they are just lazy, or perhaps because they feel anxiety? How to limit your procrastinating behaviors?
In this famous book, Brian Tracy introduces a simple yet very powerful idea that will help you in working more efficiently and avoiding procrastination. This simple principle is, “Start the day from the hardest task.”Completing hard tasks when your mind is rested in the morning is the best way to acquire the energy necessary to perform all the other tasks throughout the day. This book is priceless if you feel that procrastination is present in your life!
Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
How to be efficient and get things done? How to win against fears, procrastination, pressure for results, and all the distractions of today’s world?
According to David Allen, it is all about self-discipline. You should release the information overload from your brain: store action points in lists and release your own brain from the necessity to remember them. You should also organize yourself better and construct a functional workflow for your daily professional and social activities, and systematically review your to-do lists.
This is a powerful self-help book that will speed up your progress in just any job and give you some peace of mind at the same time. Highly recommended!
Linchpin
Are You Indispensable?
Seth Godin
How to become irreplaceable at work? How to make sure that you never get fired? Is it all about your cutting-edge technical skills, or perhaps, is it more about your aptitude to self-navigate within the company or organization where you belong?
In this book, Seth Godin gives his advice on how to become the linchpin: the pivotal part of any team who stands out from the crowd. Someone who has leadership skills can change people, is more human, more conscious of reality, and better connected than other people. Someone who is an artist at what they do, and is not afraid of taking risks. Someone who can win with their lizard brain. Linchpins love being uncomfortable and unfamiliar with the situation because they understand that not taking risks is the biggest risk of all.
Everyone has a linchpin inside of them, and in this book, Seth Godin explains how to release this potential.
Who Moved My Cheese?
An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
Dr. Spencer Johnson
Where is my cheese? Why is it gone? Who is responsible for it? I want my cheese back!
When we lose something that we find important in life, we often start looking for someone we could blame for it, instead of taking the loss, learning from it, and going forward.
This book is quite special. Light in form, and written in an entertaining way, it talks about simple yet powerful truths about life. Is it better to sit still and spend your time thinking about your losses and regrets, or rather, go forward with a smile on your face? As a matter of fact, everyone has things to regret in life, and perhaps, it is better to look at the bright side of life.
Start With Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
This famous book drew attention to the principle that lies under the market success of most global phenomena like Apple. These companies, or rather, these people, don’t sell just products. They sell their vision. They first ask themselves why they even started the company in the first place, before they release any products to the market. They also clearly communicate their “why” to the customers.
Can you also adopt this strategy to your professional career, even if you don’t have your own business? Of course, you can!–by focusing on what type of person you would like to become in the future, defining your mission, and choosing jobs and projects accordingly. Thus, it is a must-read for any professional!
168 Hours
You Have More Time Than You Think
Laura Vanderkam
“Sorry, I don’t have enough time for this”–how often do we use this argument to call off meetings, resign from projects, or forgetting about our dream projects? Well, the good news is, you have more time in your week than you might think, and for the most part, this argument is just a poor excuse.
The bad news though is that to stop wasting your time, you will need much more self-discipline. So, how to shake out as much as you can from your week? This book will show you how!–by listing all the effective strategies for better prioritizing tasks and organizing your time.
How To Win Friends & Influence People
The Only Book You Need to Lead you to success
Dale Carnegie
We all know how important networking has become. Today, developing yet any career is impossible without creating a broad network of personal contacts and the ability to influence the way other people think. But why are some people so much efficient at creating a network than others?
This is a very straightforward guidebook to how to become a well-connected person. It explains the basics of human psychology and how you can use this knowledge to your advantage. At the end of the day, we all want the same things. We want to feel understood, supported, and appreciated. Knowing this simple fact, how to build a strong and supported network? Well, this book is the answer!
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The test was long but fun to take. It makes you think about many questions that everybody should try to answer for themselves. The question topics are very comprehensive and cover the most important aspects of a person’s professional profile — I found that answering them was useful even before I saw the results.
I took the test, and I admit that it was really worth it! After receiving the results I thoroughly understood why I felt bad in some of my jobs and great in others — it was largely a matter of matching my personality and predisposition to my position. The only thing I regret is that I haven’t done this test sooner!
The mere answering of subsequent questions forces reflection on one’s own characteristics, personal mission, source of satisfaction, and a way of self-realization. A detailed analysis of the results allows you to find your place in the professional environment and will tell you what role you should take in it.
The Ontology of Value Test is a useful tool for recognizing how different professional styles and environments might be the best choice at the current stage of one’s career. Thanks to this knowledge, I have become a more self-aware person and I feel that managing my career path can be easier.
The questions address a wide variety of aspects such as my personality traits, skills, and relations to other people. I can see how I scored for each of the profiles, which gives me great insights into myself and my potential in the job market. I strongly recommend taking this test.
The Ontology of Value test has helped me greatly in understanding my value in the job market. It showed how those vague things you intuitively “feel” about yourself can nicely fit into a certain professional profile. After taking the test, I have a clear view of the working environment that can suit me the most.
After taking the Ontology of Value aptitude tests, I have become more aware, confident, and unapologetic about my strengths and weaknesses. These turned out to be the essential qualities that have convinced employers at job interviews. I have landed my dream role as a Medical Writer and I am thriving.
Taking part in the workshop delivered on every aspect I was expecting, and more. About a month and a half after the end of the workshop, I received my first job offer for a senior data scientist position in the public sector. I would definitely recommend Natalia’s workshop.
Natalia’s got an amazing grip on the diversity of work options open to those with formal higher education. Her work offers career-design support that’s well and truly rooted in the changing landscape of work in the 21st century. I would recommend this course to seasoned professionals and graduates alike.
Natalia is an excellent and highly qualified business and career coach. She was able to assess my vocational strengths, which allowed me to determine which job types are most compatible with my natural proclivities. She broke down the job search process in a comprehensible way, step by step.
Working through the Ontology of Value assessment was a deeply reflective and affirming experience. I especially appreciated that the framework doesn’t force you into artificial trade-offs or reductive categories — it feels nuanced, thoughtful, and grounded in the realities of today’s job market. It gave me reassurance that the path I’m building is aligned with my intrinsic value.
Ania Moniuszko
Tech Founder @ Joy Labs, AMME Health
This was one of the most valuable training sessions of my life, and I’ve attended dozens of training sessions, workshops, and conferences. The Ontology of Value method has a solid foundation — rooted in years of research, working with people, and a true understanding of the job market. And yet, it’s exceptionally practical.
Andrew Kupinski
Business consultant with 40+ years of experience
What I appreciated most was how practical and structured the methodology is. It’s not just theory — it gives you a clear framework for understanding how people create value and how to translate that into real career decisions. I now see careers not as a list of roles, but as dynamic systems.
Yulia Stepanova
Product and Customer Operations, WhatsApp at Meta
This intensive course was well structured and filled with tips and self-observation exercises that I would have never found elsewhere. Learning about the different working attitudes, tribes and environments was really important for me. Take the time to discover yourself and evaluate where your natural talents and passions could fit.
