Be Your Own Career Consultant: Where Do You Want to Be? [Paperback]

This is a stimulating, thought-provoking and very practical career choice manual that uses effective, simple tools to help you become your own career consultant. The book helps you analyse thoroughly where you are now, what you want, where you want to be, how to get there and what the risks, rewards and challenges are in doing so. Reality checks keep your feet on the ground, and ‘So what?’ ensures that you use what you’ve discovered about yourself in the right way. The conclusions you'll come to will be real, achievable aims and will direct you to your future. It’s not about dream jobs – it’s about real jobs…real careers…your career.

• A career development guide with a difference – intelligent and practical, it shows you how to ask yourself the right questions and learn from the answers
• Gives you the tools to get control of you career and to make the right career choices again and again
• Shows step-by-step how to work out what you want to do, and how to get there

Where do you want to be in 3, 5 or 10 years time?Don't know?Anywhere but here?Is there somewhere else you'd rather be - even if you don't know where that is yet?Time to become your own career consultant. Be Your Own Career Consultant will help you to identify and analyse where you are now, what you want next, how to get there and what the risk, rewards and challenges are in doing so. Packed with effective, stimulating, thought-provoking and practical ways to guide your career to where it should be, this is the book to provide the questions you need to ask yourself. The conclusions you come to will be real and achievable. It's not about dream jobs - it's about real jobs...real careers...your career. Work out where you want to be - and get there.

Gary Pyke

and Stuart Neath work for Consignia as trainers, and are career consultants, running career development workshops and follow-up surgeries.