How to Get a Job You'll Love 2005-2006: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your Talents and Finding Your Ideal Career [Paperback]

‘An authoritative British voice in careers coaching.’

‘An excellent book, challenging, thought provoking, enthusiastic.’

‘His advice is not to be faulted.'

Highly recommended - always practical, but never patronising.

A great way to kick-start your career makeover.

A brilliant book for anyone who wants a new direction.

A joy to read as well as an indispensable roadmap for anyone serious about managing their careers.

John Lees inspires people to rethink the way they work: to work with greater purpose, meaning and work/life balance.

Need a career change? Feel like a square peg in a round hole? Lack motivation and job satisfaction? Thinking of a portfolio career? Facing redundancy? How to Get a Job You'll Love 2005-06 takes a refreshing look at career planning. It teaches you how to think outside the box, tap into your hidden talents and identify what type of career you really want. It seeks to overcome some of the most common mental barriers to changing careers and sets out a five-point plan of action, including information on job search strategies and how to succeed in interviews.

"A Jewel of a book to help even the most luckless and career-panicked person"
- Management Today
"No matter how many barriers - real or imagined - are currently preventing you making the career change you know you need, this book will help you demolish them more effectively than a wrecking ball. John's books are thought-provoking, stimulating, challenging and a pleasure to read - and this is no exception. It could well change your life."
- Steve Crabb, Editor, People Management
"John Lees teaches you how to develop your own self-awareness and how to use that awareness effectiveley to achieve career success."
- Carol Lewis, Editor, Career, The Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

How to Get a Job You'll Love 2007/08 takes a refreshing look at career planning

It teaches you how to think outside the box, tap into your hidden talents and identify what type of career you really want. It seeks to overcome some of the most common mental barriers to changing careers and sets out a five-point plan of action which includes networking, job search strategies and successful interview techniques.

Now in its fourth edition, this best selling book has been updated to include new resources and references, additional information for MBA students, CV advice, and ideas and suggestions about portfolio careers.

Key features:

• Exercises and checklists to help you identify your skills and potential
  
• Pointers to useful career advice and job-search websites
  
• Advice on different types of careers consultants and how to chose the best one for you
  
• Networking and job search strategies
  
• Insight into what employers think and how they select candidates
  
• Advice for college leavers on how to build on academic achievements
  
• Preparing a strong `message', in person and on paper
  
• Guidelines for adapting your existing job to suit you
  

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

John Lees' work as a leading British career coach has been covered widely in the UK press (Sunday and Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, Red, She, Management Today), and he is a regular columnist for The Times, The Guardian, Personnel Today, Recruiter, and Pathfinder. He is a regular speaker at conferences and training seminars and has run workshops in Europe, South Africa and USA. John has been involved in the training and developing of recruitment specialists since the mid 1980s, from both public and private sectors, and is the former Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (IEC)