How to be Resilient in Your Career

Facing Up to Barriers at Work
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-35817-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 269 g

This book shares vital career advice to help professionals navigate common "internally disruptive" career experiences such as harassment and bullying, imposter syndrome, membership in an underrepresented group, toxic workplaces, discrimination, and more.

Dr. Helen Ofosu draws on twenty years of helping employers acquire talent and coaching professionals through difficult career choices to unpack these layered and complicated issues in an easy-to-follow way. Dealing with the dark side of management, the book outlines various issues that can occur in the workplace, or during a person’s career journey, and offers practical advice on how to overcome these obstacles and setbacks. Using her considerable HR experience, Dr. Ofosu also offers coveted insights from the employer’s point of view. For people who have already tried other options to resolve their complicated career issues, this book offers an essential guide that equips readers with a knowledge base to make informed decisions around building and sustaining a thriving and resilient career.

How to be Resilient in Your Career: Facing Up to Barriers at Work is a reliable resource presented with nuance, depth, and specificity. Psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, and HR professionals who are looking for effective advice when supporting people struggling with these issues, will greatly benefit from this book, as will early career professionals, and established earners looking to resolve their career issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ofosu, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Berufe, Ausbildung, Karriereplanung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Angewandte Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Psychometric Testing

2. Underemployment or Being Overqualified

3. The Impostor Syndrome

4. Bullying, Harassment, and Discrimination

5. Navigating Professional Boundaries

6. Toxic Workplaces

7. Identity Is Complex

8. The Importance of Networking, Mentorship. and Diligence

9. Workplace Scapegoats and the Glass Cliff

10. Avoiding and Coping with Burnout at Work

11. When It’s Time to Change Jobs

Conclusion

References/Further Reading

About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Helen Ofosu is an Organizational Psychologist who offers Coaching, HR Consulting and Training/Public Speaking through I/O Advisory Services Inc., Canada. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.