How to Get a Job You'll Love: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your Talents and Finding Your Ideal Career. John Lees - Softcover

John Lees

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0077121805 ISBN 13: 9780077121808

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2008

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0077121805
• ISBN 13: 9780077121808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 304