Fully updated version of this job hunting classic
The new and fully updated edition of John Lees' bestselling How to Get a Job You'll Love (2011-12 Ed) will help you unlock your hidden potential, find your passion and apply it to your working lives. Packed with new chapters, exercises and useful resources, this practical guide is the must-have read for anyone looking for their ideal career.
Key Features
New Chapter ' What happened to my career? Includes coverage of how we make career decisions in a market that is dominated by redundancies
New Chapter ' Can I Find a Job Using Social Media? Includes coverage of making the most of web-based networking tools
New coverage on managing internships, influences that point us towards certain career paths, directions on the first steps if you want to do something very different, why people keep making the same mistakes, new career thinking and trends, including `giganomics' (combining multiple skills, talents and abilities to generate income for living)
New exercises to draw out personal values
Checklists now include coverage on self-employment
List of Useful Websites has been comprehensively updated and revised
About the author
John Lees is one of the UK's best known career coaches and authors. How To Get A Job You'll Love regularly tops the list as the best-selling careers book by a British author.
John specialises in helping people make difficult career decisions difficult because they don't know what to do next, or because there are barriers in the way of success. He regularly appears as a keynote speaker at events around the globe (including Forum3 and One Life Live in the UK).
He writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian and has a regular column in People Management. His work has been featured on Channel 4's `Dispatches' and on BBC 2's Working Lunch and he regularly provides insights into the world of work on radio and in a publications including Management Today, The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Psychologies, Eve and SHE.
Table of contents
1: What Happened To My Career?
2: What's the Problem?
3: Where Next After Finishing Your Studies?
4: Thinking Around Corners
5: Your Career Hot Buttons
6: Your House of Knowledge
7: What Do You Have to Offer?
8: Who are you?
9: What Kind of Work would suit you best?
10: What about a Complete Change of Career?
11: Creative Job Search Strategies
12: Can I find a job using social media?
13: Interviews and How to Survive Them
14: How to Love the Job You've Got
15: Portfolio Careers and Beyond
16: Beginning it Here
17: Key Checklists
Appendices
1: Informational Interviews - The REVEAL Method
2: People Who Have Transformed Their Careers
3: Useful Websites
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