Product Description

This book consists of a number of exercises designed to help you to analyse and develop your personal skills, aptitudes and ambitions. It provides the key to a number of essential career development skills, including: Knowing Yourself; Learning from Experience; Research Skills; Setting Objectives and Making Action Plans; Making Decisions; Looking after Yourself; and, Communicating. In carrying out the exercises in this book you will discover what is important to you about your work, your interests, your transferable skills, and your most comfortable career pattern. You will be helped to set personal and career objectives and make action plans to take greater charge of yourself and your life. Using a new system for classifying jobs and courses devised specifically for this book, your own personal profile can be checked against jobs, education and training opportunities and leisure pursuits to help widen your range of possibilities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12919 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent for people at a life/career crossroads
Practical book that leads you step-by-step through the process of examining your values, interests and skills. It is easy to follow and provides lots of useful information and thinking points to help you really consider your options.

It would take over 40 hours to work through everything so take it chapter/chunk at a time and for maximum benefit, discuss your findings with a friend/coach to make sure you really take on board the key messages.

Helps you figure out what you want
There are lots of books which help you get the job that you want, but there are very few that help you figure out what you want in the first place.

This book has guided several people that I know through their midlife crisis by helping them identify what sort of a job they would find more satisfying than whatever it is they are currently doing.

The structured exercises force you to examine every aspect of your life including what you enjoy, what you're good at, what you spend your time on etc. If you put in the time and effort you will end up with both a reasonable idea of what you want and some idea of how to get it.

Practical, Useable, Action Oriented
If you're looking to make changes to your career and are prepared to put in the necessary time and effort, this book will really help make things happen.

Follows a structured 6-stage process to help clarify where you are now, where you want to get to and how to get there.