How to Get a Job You'll Love, 2009/10 Edition: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your Talents and Finding Your Ideal Career [Paperback]

Looking for a change of job or has change been forced on you? John Lees has a great morale booster.
--BA Business Life Magazine, January 1, 2010

Lees' ability to [help] people make successful career transitions has meant
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Asks readers to examine what they mean by career success, how to
set goals, and strategies for achieving them.
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John Lees challenges readers' perceived limitations and helps them discover
their strengths...invest in a copy!
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A joy to read as well as an indispensable roadmap for anyone serious about managing their careers. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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John Lees’ bestselling careers manual teaches you how to tap into your hidden talents and identify what type of career you really want. It helps readers to overcome some of the most common mental barriers that stand in the way of career change, and sets out a five-point plan of action which includes networking, job search strategies and successful interview techniques. Now in its fifth edition, How To Get A Job You’ll Love has been updated to include new resources and references.

NEW IN 2009/10 EDITION:

• Competency based interviews material in Chapter 12
• Revised Chap 9 on finding the right field of work
• Revised Chap 10 on making a complete career change
• Appendix 2 Case studies of clients who have been helped by the book
• Updated material on age discrimination
• New list of useful job sites

There are many `how to' books about career change and job search. They are good at getting you organized and giving you good advice on job search.

This book aims to do something different. Its approach is to look at the way that people generate brilliant ideas and new ways of solving problems or designing products, and it then applies that breakthrough thinking to you and your career, the way you work and the way you find work. It challenges your perceived limitations and helps you to discover your strengths. Finally, it provides practical advice about making your chosen future happen.

Quite simply, the aim is to help you to make connections between your natural creativity and the way you plan your life's work.

Most people spend more time planning a car purchase, one annual holiday or their new kitchen than they do thinking about their career. Generally speaking, we're not good at career planning at all. It's staggering how many people drift from one job to another with no clear idea of the way their career is heading.

It's easy to think of career management as a crisis activity. I must get out of here. I must find work. I've got to get a better job. You do need to plan your career at times of transition: when you leave full-time education, when you are out of work or underemployed, or when you have a strong impulse to move on and make progress. Sometimes a sense of career crisis is expressed as an overwhelming need to do something more meaningful or relevant.

This book is written for anyone who is trying to make conscious, informed decisions about career choice.

John Lees is one of the UK’s most prominent career coaches with 20 years experience of training recruiters. He specialises in helping career changers gain the confidence and skills to find a job they’ll love and overcome any barriers in the way of success. John is a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian, Personnel Today and People Management, and frequently appears as a keynote speaker at major careers events including Forum 3 and One Life.

He is the author of a bestselling portfolio of career development titles including Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions, a comprehensive toolkit for dealing with awkward, probing, personality and competency based interview questions; Take Control of Your Career, a practical guide to developing your best personal career strategy; and Why You? CV Messages To Win Jobs, which draws on extensive research into the way employers read CVs to show readers how to develop the right format to win a place on that all important shortlist