How to Get a Job You'll Love 2011-2012 Edition - Softcover

Lees, John

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9780077129934: How to Get a Job You'll Love 2011-2012 Edition

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077129938 ISBN 13: 9780077129934

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

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Description

The new and fully updated edition of John Lees’ bestselling How to Get a Job You’ll Love (2011-12 Ed) will help readers unlock their hidden potential, find their passion and apply it to their 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

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Review:

A treasure-trove of information and advice for anyone who has wants a job that they'll love. --Bella, 16 August 2010

Packed full of exercises to overcome excuses and find out what really motivates people. --workingmums.co.uk, 19 September 2010

John offers sage advice...a value for money read and well worth the cover price. --AMBA Ambition magazine, 1 November 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).

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