Unique in the field of career search guides is Richard Nelson Bolles’ What Color is your Parachute?.  What sets this perennial favorite apart from the others is a section at the end entitled, “Finding Your Mission in Life.”  In it, Bolles takes the seeker beyond finding a great job to identifying one’s life’s work, or calling—the work one is uniquely created to do.  To the Christian job seeker in search of his or her mission, Dick Staub’s About You is the ideal companion piece.

Staub’s timely reflection on the true mission of believers—to be fully human—is a powerful call.  Given today’s celebrity culture of fame based not on accomplishment but on media exposure, Staub offers a different perspective on success by inviting the reader to contemplate and cultivate his or her talents and skills.  These are a kind of blueprint for one’s work in the world.  By developing their talents and skills and putting them in God’s service, believers will fully express their humanity and in doing so, fully express the divine.

Staub clearly underscores humanity’s need for God’s redemptive grace.  Believers participate in this redemption through the power of Jesus’ resurrection and his model of a human life fully lived.  Staub’s message is empowering in its focus on the dynamic gifts of our human nature, and how they can be raised to even further heights in collaboration with God’s grace.  We are fallen, yes, and we are raised beyond our wildest imaginings when we open our lives to God’s dream for them.

Affirming, empowering, filled with inspiring quotes and practical applications, About You is a must-read for all Christian seekers, career or otherwise.