Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums: What to do Next When You're Bored, Burned Out, Retired or Fired - Softcover

Buck, Charles A.; Worthing, Marcia L.

9780470115152: Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums: What to do Next When You're Bored, Burned Out, Retired or Fired

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470115157 ISBN 13: 9780470115152

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Whether you're bored, burned out, retired, or fired, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums offers solutions, ideas, and practical tools for shaking up your professional life for the better. Based on real case studies, this smart and practical career guide will help you discover the causes of your professional problems and give you the inspiration and confidence to take action and seize new opportunities. This is the perfect prescription for a new and exciting professional life.

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From the Back Cover:

Get your career back on track--whether you're bored, burned out, retired, or fired

Changing professions in mid-career is both a challenge and an opportunity. Whether you're burned out or bored to death with your job, whether you've been downsized, retired, or fired, this is your chance to seize control of your career and start doing something you really love. Even if you've been working in the same field for decades, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums offers solutions, ideas, and practical tools for shaking up your professional life for the better.

Everyone deserves a second chance at a great career. Based on real case studies of mid-career professionals, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums will help you discover the causes of your professional problems and fix them with practical, straightforward career advice. Inside, you'll find inspiring and practical guidance on:

Recognizing when you're burned out or bored
Gaining the confidence to take action and seize new opportunities
Taking advantage of your mid-career experience
Looking inside yourself to find your next career path or goal
Adjusting to changes in the modern workplace
Switching to a part-time or flex-time schedule
Finding a career that matches your interests
Mining emerging trends for new opportunities
Using continuing education to transition into a new profession
And much more

For experienced professionals who are out of work or unhappy with their jobs, Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums is the perfect prescription for a new, healthy, and exciting life.

About the Author:

Marcia L. Worthing, a consultant, was most recently executive vice president of Mullin & Associates/Lincolnshire International, a New York-headquartered firm specializing in executive and professional career transition services and executive coaching for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Mullin, she was senior vice president of human resources and corporate affairs at Avon Products, Inc. Charles A. Buck is a corporate and transition coach based in New York City working with individuals and small businesses. He has owned an inn and was the founder of two leading executive search firms. Earlier he was senior vice president of administrative services at Batten Barton Durstine & Osborn, Inc. and vice president of Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc.

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