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If your career is stagnating and you need to give it some zing, or if you are just getting started in your career and want to get going on the right foot, then this book was written just for you!Read on to find out how reading this one book can get you on the right track – the Fast Track – to career success. Reading this interactive book will energize your career by changing the way you think and feel about the modern world of work. Contrary to popular belief, creating your life’s work should not be left to fate; in fact, to increase your chances of choosing wisely, you need to utilize a practical, proactive, and smart approach to your career development. Each chapter is full of journaling assignments, reflection exercises, and case illustrations designed to raise your self awareness, enhance your intuition, and develop your decision-making skills – all of which will empower you to fulfill your career aspirations. Another chapter is specially devoted to those who are looking to move to a new position to help them in their career growth; it provides job search secrets that HR managers have been keeping to themselves for many years, including how to properly format your résumé so that it gets noticed without looking unprofessional, how to write compelling cover letters using the magic words that every HR manager would love to read on an application, and even the secret to writing effective follow-up letters for use after your interview. From how to decide which career is right for you, to interviewing and landing a job in your new career, this book takes you through each step in the process. Dr. Casto’s work has helped people all across North America find their dream jobs. Now its your turn…
Bestselling author offers a step-by-step program to making the right choices about a new career move Don't fear taking the leap into a new career with this seven step program from bestselling author and life coach Talane Miedaner. Whatever the situation or economic environment, Coach Yourself to a New Career gives you the tools to take matters into your own hands by assessing your needs and strengths, finding the right work fit, weighing options and possible sacrifices, and preparing your family for transitions. Packed with expert advice and helpful examples from her many statistical clients—as well as her own career change process—Miedaner shows how anyone can reinvent their professional life. Coach Yourself to a New Career: Offers a seven-step approach to career reinvention and practical advice for a smooth transition Profiles everyday people who achieved career reinvention on their own terms - and what their stories can teach you Shows you how to assess your needs and strengths Helps you decide what tough decisions or sacrifices you may have to make Prepares your spouse or family for transition Miedaner shares her own story of launching her coaching business—with careful planning, hard work, commitment and faith. She shows how you can follow other's examples to achieve the professional life you want.
Are you one of several employees who are either dissatisfied or unhappy in their present career? Do you feel that you are not growing with the career you have chosen? If your answer is yes, then you have to pursue a career change. While this can be a major decision that can make or break your financial stability, embracing the idea is one way to grow and find yourself. It is your gateway to happiness and satisfaction. This book, How to Change Your Career for Success and Satisfaction can prepare you for the journey of career change. Below is a quick outline of what you can get: o The challenges of career change o How to manage an "out-of-job situation" o Mistakes to avoid when changing careers o Smart ways to change careers o Decide on the right career o Match your personality with the right career o And much more. So if you are ready for a career change, get hold of this book packed with guidelines to help you overcome the challenges that will come with your decision.
People choosing a career have a lot of information available, but almost all fits in only 3 categories: personality assessment, job-hunting tactics, and "best jobs" listings, all of which present only today's situation. What will happen with specific work opportunities, though, over the next two decades, after which most of today's new college graduates will not have even reached middle age? Choosing a Lasting Career: The Job-by-Job Outlook for Work's New Age answers that question. It starts by showing that while the jobs crisis is permanent and will not end with better times, careers will not be affected uniformly. The book then presents a broad set of factors likely to affect how work opportunities will fare over the next two decades, including 20 general principles. It provides an extensive series of tables, including its own "Best Jobs," with criteria important to some but not others such as compatibility with a family life and outside projects. Next is a catalog of 506 different jobs, each rated in 11 different future-leaning categories. It also considers self-employment as it actually is, and describes spectacular events in progress or arriving soon, which will not only affect careers profoundly but have the potential to obliterate them completely. Choosing a Lasting Career fills two critical gaps. First, it answers the question of what job or career you should opt for if you already know what suits you and are grounded in the strategy and tactics of being hired. No other book fits better on a shelf between Sweaty Palms and What Color is your Parachute. Second, it improves on the present-only orientation of other career materials by daring to look, specifically and incisively, at years beyond the 2010s. It is valuable not only for those seeking opportunities after graduation, but for others who want to invest their time and money in a long-term position that will not be swept away by automation, globalization, efficiency, or other factors we cannot ignore.
Career progress is easy isn't it? Surely you just show up at 9, keep your head down for eight hours and then hotfoot it out of the office the minute the clock strikes 5? That might be OK for some but if you want a varied, interesting and well-paid career then you're going to have to put in a bit more effort. We know it can often be hard to think about your career when the actual job keeps you occupied more hours than you'd like so that's why we've made it easy for you. Here are 20 tips for impressing your boss, getting the pay rise you want and progressing up the career ladder – and all with less effort than the guy in the next office.
A practical career guide for creatively inclined job seekers of all ages, with tips and counsel on how to use their independent and innovative talents and passions to make money, express themselves, and find a job they love. This new edition of the popular guide for individuals seeking work that suits their unique skills has been completely revised and updated to reflect the freedom offered by the new work order, delve more deeply into freelancing as a career, explore social media as it relates to creative job searches, provide new success stories, and bring all salary information up to date. It also includes descriptions of more than 270 creative jobs, from the mainstream (architect, web designer) to the unexpected (crossword-puzzle maker, police sketch artist). With knowledgeable career guidance, real-life success stories, and eye-opening self-evaluation tools, the fourth edition of The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People helps unique individuals find work that supports and compliments their personalities and passions.
The Lazy Winner builds on the concept of 'productive laziness', developed in Peter Taylor's bestselling The Lazy Project Manager, which encourages people to apply more thought before leaping in to action and throwing effort at a problem or task. There are much better ways to progress in work and in life. With better planning readers can ensure that they are Lazy Winners and achieve success in what they do at work and in life—more impressive results with the minimum of effort.
From identifying your needs to exploring your options -- make the right career move Changing careers by choice or due to circumstances beyond your control? Have no fear -- this hands-on guide focuses on helping you find a new job, start a business, or return to school in a detailed, step-by-step manner. With concise, eye-opening self-assessments, you'll understand how to assess your current situation, explore various career ideas, and identify ways to utilize your talents and skills in jobs that suit your lifestyle. You'll see how to build a career that lets you express who you are, fulfill your needs and desires, and live the life you want! Discover Detailed, to-the-point explanations on outlining your action plan The inside scoop on transforming your passions into career options A wealth of tips, tricks, and warnings How to blend your ideal career with the realities of your life
Match Your Personality Type to Your Perfect Career-and Find Success! The simple truth is that to be happy and successful in your work, you need a career that not only matches your interests but fits your personality type as well. In this approachable book, author Donna Dunning uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) to introduce eight distinct ways of working. Encouraging you to reflect on your own natural preferences-using checklists, exercises, strategies and tips-What's Your Type of Career? provides all the tools you need to discover your own natural preferences and find your ideal career. Are you a Contributor, Expeditor, Explorer or Responder? An Analyzer, Assimilator, Enhancer or Visionary? An Extravert or an Introvert? If you identify yourself as an Extravert and a Responder, you tend to like action, scenarios that are rapidly changing and are not inclined toward a desk job. A profession as an emergency worker, a fi re fighter or a police officer may be for you. This best-selling career guide-now in a fully updated second edition-has been expanded to include the training and educational requirements of a variety of different occupations, and highlights those most in demand. It also includes details on developing type differences later in life, advice for balancing your work and personal life and many, many more preference-based career suggestions.
Your one-stop guide to finding a job, navigating the corporate ladder, and leaving when the time is right Did you know that: 60% of hiring managers will offer a higher salary if asked? 14% of workers have used happy hour to get ahead? 66% of businesses monitor Internet use? 77% of workers feel burnout on the job? From the experts at CareerBuilder.com, America's largest online job site, comes a complete handbook for career domination. Whether it's answering the questions the interviewers are really asking, making the most of your performance reviews, or quitting with great references and without burning bridges, Career Building explains it all. This book offers everything from job hunting basics to hiring manager secrets, office survival advice to career change suggestions, workplace statistics to sample resignation letters, and more. Whether you're looking for your first job or your fortieth, or you're just eager to move up the ranks at your current company, this is the one and only guide you need to create the career you've always wanted.
The very nature of the modern organisational environment means that success is always to be laid primarily at your door; so too is failure. You have to get things right, and you may get no second chances. And this is as true of your career as it is of your job. Whatever your expertise at present, it is a fact that its nature and level will need to change. This may mean major extension if you are a newcomer to your chosen field, or it may mean what is better described as fine-tuning. Whatever it may necessitate, you must ensure that you are always "career-fit" now and at any time in the future. Disaster-Proof Your Career looks at an aspect of what might be called active career management, at what makes the process manageable, and what makes it effective. If you want to become - or remain - successful, inaction is simply not an option. This essential guide gives tips on how to become secure in your existing job and role, advice on how to take on new challenges and appear an asset to your organisation, guidance on how to be desirable in the job market if you choose to move on to another employer and pointers on how to obtain fair and satisfactory rewards for what you do.
Designed for anyone from the recent graduate who decides to change focus to the seasoned professional starting fresh in a new industry, this guidebook offers hands-on activities that lead consumers through each step of the career changing process. With profiles of people who have successfully changed careers, information on scholarships and grants, insight into industries that are hiring, resume tips, and interview tips, this is a complete, interactive resource for anyone needing guidance.
Frank's Roadmap to Career Success is a must read for every working individual who desires to maximize their success at work. This insightful book walks through specific scenarios and how to manage relationships. It covers topics such as resumes, interviewing and social media. This book is appropriate if you just started your career or you are on your way to the corner office.
There's a revolution brewing across the nation--a movement that's changing lives and revealing little known paths to passion and prosperity. It's about building a great living around what you love to do most. Once you've been touched by it, you'll never be the same. This book is your way in, your admission ticket to the world of the career renegade. Jonathan Fields, mega-firm lawyer turned successful lifestyle entrepreneur, blogger and writer shows you how to turn your passion--whether it's cooking or copy-writing, teaching or playing video games--into a better payday and a richly satisfying life. Discover the 7 career renegade paths to prosperity Tap technology to turn a seemingly moneyless passion into a goldmine Rapidly test and tune your idea for free, from the comfort of your couch Establish yourself as an authority in a new field with little or no investment Cultivate the mission-driven, action-oriented career renegade mindset Rally others to your cause, and convince them you're not nuts Join the movement now...and take back your livelihood and life! From the Trade Paperback edition.
Many people only listen to "outside" voices of expectations and circumstances. They may have material success, but they are disillusioned by the realities of their work. Those people are discovering what you already know - SUCCESS WITHOUT SATISFACTION IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH! Donna Styer's years as a professional career coach have taught her that many people choose careers for the wrong reasons and that career success without satisfaction is not enough. They need to feed their soul as well as their wallet. And, most importantly, a career change does not have to be scary. My approach helps you try out new options without burning bridges. Harmony in Your Career & in Your Soul is unique because Styer understands your needs for career fulfillment and believes you can get there - authentically. The process she shares with the reader fosters a return to the core self in a very simple and clear format.