How to Find the Career You've Always Wanted - Softcover

Black, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472143698 ISBN 13: 9781472143693

Publisher: Robinson, 2019

Synopsis

From the Financial Times careers adviser, this book of wisdom will help you feel more empowered about your career. You can read it from beginning to end, or dive into specific sections for immediate advice on, for example, writing your CV.

'We will certainly be recommending the book to all our parents. It's quite simply the best available' - George Fussey, Head of Career Education, Eton College

'One of the most practical and comprehensible career guides ever produced' - Baroness Gillian Shephard

How to Find the Career You've Always Wanted is made up of three sections:

Stepping Back - What's this all about?
The bigger issues that frame the whole area of your career and jobs; looking down on your career map from 10,000 feet.

Practicalities - What do I do on Monday morning?
CVs, applications, interviews and all the other details on your map.

Along the Way - Or, how do I keep going?
How to cope with the hurdles and challenges that you might encounter while you're travelling along your route It includes an extensive set of real examples to bring it all alive, and is grounded with helpful statistics and sociological research.

Jonathan Black is Director of the Careers Service at the University of Oxford. He himself has had many different jobs, including: management consultant, professional publisher, co-found of a start-up company, finance director, aerospace engineer, computer salesman and strategy direct. In this book, he dispenses wisdom accrued in the course of a long and varied career, in which he has helped many thousands find the career of their dreams.

'Indispensable, inviting and engaging' - Prof Dame Carol Black, DBE, FRCP, FMedSci

'A book about how to lead a happy life' - James Hodgson, Bedford School

'A uniquely powerful guidebook' - Mark Byford, Egon Zehnder

'The definitive careers guide' - David Palfreyman, OBE

'Wise, calming and pragmatic' - Emma Jacobs, FT

'A true career design compendium' - Caroline Konrad, Ryerson University

'Winningly combines anecdotes, surveys and years of professional experience' - Dr Tim Hands, Winchester School

'Elegant, light and humorous style' - Prof Dame Carol Black, DBE, FRCP, FMedSci

'From an expert at the top of his game' - David Palfreyman, OBE

About this title

About the Author

Author Jonathan Black has been Director of the Careers Service at the University of Oxford for the last eight years. Before that, he's had a number of different jobs including: management consultant, professional publisher, co-founder of a start-up company, finance director, aerospace engineer, computer salesman, and strategy director. He has worked in the UK, Europe and the USA, in small businesses and large corporations, private and public sector. In his day job, he works one-to-one with students, presents at international conferences, on the radio and TV, and comes up with new ideas and programmes to help students in schools, university and beyond, to improve their career prospects.

From the Back Cover

Learn how to make a career plan that suits you - then make it happen

In this positive and reassuring book, Jonathan Black, director of The Careers Service at the University of Oxford, gives you the confidence and skills to choose your career - as well as the perspective to see the big picture and understand where you are heading.

How to Find the Career You've Always Wanted teaches you how to write a great application, network, succeed at interviews, negotiate a job offer and much more. It will alert you to the hurdles and challenges you might encounter as you cross your career map, how to cope with them, and how to seek assistance as and when you need it.

This book distills the wisdom and experience of someone who advises and helps people work out their own career plan for a living. It includes an extensive set of real life examples, and is grounded in statistics and sociological research.

'This is not just a book about careers; it is a book about how to lead a happy life' - James Hodgson, Headmaster, Bedford School

'We will certainly be recommending the book to all our parents - it's quite simply the best available' - George Fussey, Head of Career Education, Eton College

'Black is a wise, calming and pragmatic adviser to those climbing the fi st rungs of the career ladder' - Emma Jacobs, Financial Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Robinson
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472143698
• ISBN 13: 9781472143693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176