Your Career, Your Way!: Personal Strategies to Achieve Your Career Aspirations - Softcover

Lisa Quast

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595940421 ISBN 13: 9781595940421

Synopsis

Your Career, Your Way is the book for all woman who do not want to trust their career advancement to luck. It is for women who want to take control of their career and achieve their aspirations. Achieving success requires more than luck, more than hard work - it requires a plan. Your Career, Your Way offers the roadmap to women's dreams by guiding them through the creation and implementation of a personal strategic plan using easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.  Your Career, Your Way won a 2007 Book of the Year Finalist Award from ForeWord Magazine! (edited by author)

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Quast is an award-winning author and women's career coach. As a former Fortune 500 executive who climbed from the lowest rung of the career ladder, Lisa has a unique, comprehensive perspective on what it takes to achieve professional success. Lisa shares her insight and expertise on all areas of job searching, hiring and navigating the workplace in regular columns for Forbes.com and The Seattle Times and frequently contributes to nationally published articles.

Her female-focused career blog won the 2012 and 2010 Stevie Awards for "Blog of the Year" and her first book "Your Career, Your Way" has received several accolades. In 2014, Lisa released her second book "Secrets of a Hiring Manager Turned Career Coach," which shares all of her inside knowledge on how to conduct a successful job search. In it, she divulges the secrets she shares with her coaching clients to help them find and get a job they love with a 100% success rate.

From the Back Cover

"This book speaks to all working women; no matter what educational background, work experience or social standing. The two fictional characters with two very different career paths and family situations provide two distinct examples that the vast majority of readers can relate to and identify with. After reading this book I found that I could apply the concepts in it to just about every aspect of my life from my job to weight loss to family situations - I'm going to give it as gifts to all my girlfriends." - Staci Carlson

"I generally mistrust any self-help book that feels 'empowering' because they're usually filled with 'pop' psychology, however, this book provided easy to follow exercises that led to the creation of my personal strategic plan and it gave me the confidence that I truly can manage my career my way." - Rachel Hirons

"As the owner of a career placement firm, I meet women every day who have the desire to excel in their careers but aren't necessarily sure how to go about it. This book shows women how to think of themselves as a 'product' and create a roadmap to help them achieve their career aspirations. It's a book packed with tips, techniques and tools that help the reader emerge from the last chapter with not only a completed plan of action, but inspired, confident and motivated to succeed." - Laura Lashua

From the Inside Flap

"A must read for women looking to advance their careers." - Rob "Waldo" Waldman, Former Fighter Pilot, Keynote Speaker, and Author

"A great tool for women to navigate through the business world. This book is invaluable coming from a woman who has successfully climbed the corporate ladder." - Hellen Davis, Author

"This book gives women the business formula for a successful career. Anyone who wants their career - their way, can utilize these strategies to make their dream a reality." - Carolyn Gross, Author

"Your Career, Your Way! is an invaluable guidebook for any woman wanting to advance their career and achieve their aspirations." - Charles Hasse, President, Washington Education Association

"Your Career, Your Way! should be the reference guide for all women who want to advance in their careers. It's an amazingly helpful book and should be on the desks of women around the world." - Al Patey, President, Paradigm Training

"An essential career roadmap that provides a realistic, practical approach to help you navigate to your next position. The book is a wonderful antidote to the old saying, 'If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else!'" - Louise A. Kapustka, Director, Executive MBA Program, University of Washington Business School

"This book really enables people to think about their personal and professional development in practical business terms. With her structured step by step approach and speaking from her rich experience in business and as a coach, Lisa provides self-confidence to anyone wanting to take a next step in their careers, but not being sure yet on how best to do that." - Carla Mahieu, SVP Executive Staffing & Talent Management, Philips International

"Look out men in the world because women have a new champion, mentor and leader. With the reading of her book, 'Your Career, Your Way!' women will haqve a leg up on their competition." - Robert Boyd, President, Orca Creative Group

"Provides highly personalized tools required to assess ones individual strengths, weaknesses and ambitions. The book's process is a powerful approach toward achieving the ultimate goal in life, namely happiness and contentment. I highly recommend this masterpiece since it contains an amazing compilation of facts and processes that will guide the serious reader to 'being the best one is capable of becoming.'" - F. David Rollo, M.D. PhD., FACC, FACNP, President, Cell>Point

"I wish this book had been written sooner! Every woman who wants to advance in her career should read this book!" - Rebecca Baker, Chief Marketing Officer of Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC

"Your Career, Your Way! is designed to help women make informed decisions on how to jump start their careers and what steps they can take to achieve personal fulfillment. Through Lisa's successful business experience, she has provided women with business tools and know how to execute and succeed in their chosen career goals." - Ellen Moos, Owner and Creative Director, Silver Fox Productions

"Lisa Quast has offered many working women (and, as far as I'm concerned, men!) an extremely useful guide to planning their careers and lives. Her way of providing a thinking framework for people to get to grips with who they are and where they want to go is both refreshing and practical." - Tjerk Hooghiemstra, Corporate HRM, Philips International

"Many times we think of a career woman only as a woman in the business world climbing the corporate ladder. After reading this book I realized the importance of organizing my ideas and goals for the future as an educator. This organization is needed as a teacher, nurse, or any college student getting ready to enter the 'real world' of work." - Cindy Remme, Clinical Assistant Professor, Teacher and Teach Education, University of Arizona

Edition details

• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595940421
• ISBN 13: 9781595940421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 133