How To Find A Job You'll L ove

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-07-709800-1
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm

"John Lees deftly directs us to consider how to get the most from our skills and actually enjoy our careers: an innovative and creative look at a subject too often confined to how-to lists and short-lived buzz words"Professor Alex Reed CBE, Founder and Chairman of Reed Executive PLC and Professor of Innovations at Royal Holloway, University of London"John's book gives a highly accessible but still very thoughtful appreciation of creative career management in a way that I have rarely come across in my career as a leader of a global search firm. I would unhesitatingly recommend it."Stephen Bampfylde, Chairman, Saxton Bampfylde Hever Plc"John Lees draws on his many years of training recruiters to offer real insights for job-seekers, and at the same time challenges the way we think about job change, If you're looking for a great way to re-invent your career, read this book."Tim Nicholson, Chief Executive, Recruitment & Employment FederationStuck in a career rut? Changing careers but don't know which direction to take? Facing redundancy but don't know what to do next?John Lees' book takes a fresh look at career planning. It teaches you how to think outside the box, tap into your hidden talents and identify what type of career you really want. It seeks to overcome some of the most common mental barriers to changing careers and sets out a five point action plan of action. In addition, the book takes a fresh view of job-search strategies and gives tips on how to get to and succeed in interviews.Key features: - Pointers to useful career advise and job-search web sites - Step-by-step guide to identifying your skills and potential - Advice on networking - Insight into what employers think and how they select candidates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lees, John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1:Creative Career Management Chapter 2:Take a Sideways look Chapter 3:What’s the Problem? Chapter 4:Your Career Hot Buttons Chapter 5:Your House Knowledge Chapter 6:Thinking Around Corners Chapter 7:What Do You Have to Offer? Chapter 8:Who Are You? Chapter 9:Leap into a New Field Chapter 10: Using the Field Generator Chapter 11: Creative job Search StrategiesInterviews and How To Survive Them Chapter 13: What the future's looking for Chapter 14: Beginning it here: A five point action plan Chapter 15: Key checklists Appendicies: I Useful Web sites II Books and Other ResourcesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Lees, John
John Lees has been involved in the training and developing of recruitment specialists since the mid 1980s, from both public and private sectors. He undertook an advisory role to the RN careers service, and has provided help for Army personnel beginning civilian careers. He was Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (IEC) until 1993 when he left to become a Director of TGA, an employment research and careers advisory company. In 1999 he decided to go it alone and now runs his own human resources consultancy, specialising in career management and developing new tools to help with difficult career change decisions. John writes and speaks widely, and amongst his regular commitments acts as an online careers guru for lifebyte.com. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (FREC).