Career Reboot: 24 Tips for Tough Times (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Softcover

Lees, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077127587 ISBN 13: 9780077127589

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2010

Synopsis

How does anyone make sense of work and career choice in times as tough as this?

This book encourages you to break out of a rut and start to make things happen in your career. Packed with practical tips for rejuvenating your career, this book is a must for anyone striking out into a difficult job market after redundancy or simply looking for new opportunities in tough times.

This book is designed to help you get out of a hole if you’re career-panicked, especially if you’re coping with redundancy. Section 1 – Taking Stock checks your thinking before you throw yourself into job search mode. Section 2 – Planning Your Strategy gives you insights into the way the market works and the way recruiters and employers react to the different behaviours adopted by job seekers. Section 3 – Your Message To The Marketplace provides a series of checklists to show you how to sell yourself on paper, including the reason why so many CVs and cover letters fail, and Section 4 – Interview Secrets reveals how to make an impact in the final stages of the selection process. Finally Section 5 – Looking Forward provides some longer-term career strategies.

About this title

Review:

Lees spent 20 years training recruiters before setting up his careers consultancy, so he knows what recruiters are looking for.
--Sunday Times, 21 February 2010

Lees spent 20 years training recruiters before setting up his careers consultancy, so he knows what recruiters are looking for.
--Sunday Times, 21 February 2010

John Lees [is] one of the big beasts of the career coaching industry...a great morale booster. --BA Business Life, January 1, 2010

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0077127587
• ISBN 13: 9780077127589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118