The Accomplishment Journal: Job Interviews, Performance Reviews, and an Actionable Tool Kit for Shining Brighter - Softcover

Baker, Sydney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1999271904 ISBN 13: 9781999271909

Publisher: Sydney Baker, 2019

Synopsis

2020 Best Book Awards Finalist - Novelty & Gift

The ultimate sidekick in your career! Utilize this book's carefully curated journal prompts to keep track of valuable work experiences, transferable skills, career goals, learning opportunities, key achievements, and much more.

It's time to take the memory game out of preparing for job interviews and performance reviews. Simply flip-through your journal entries and remember all of the incredible things that you have accomplished, experienced, or otherwise stepped-up for at work. And better yet, gather a list of your most relevant and flattering examples to talk about!

The Accomplishment Journal offers 365 days of optimized journal pages, including:

• An initial set of career & goal planning Qs
• 52 sets of weekly Qs
• 13 sets of monthly Qs
• A concluding set of year-in-review Qs.

This book also includes several supporting resources throughout, such as tips on how to create a journaling habit, example answers on the first encounter of each question, and a "soft-skills brainstorming page" to help you along the way. There are blank lined spaces after each journal question to write down your answers, along with added notebook pages for additional thoughts.

About this title

About the Author

Before writing The Accomplishment Journal, Sydney worked in human resources, thus conducting hundreds of job interviews and performance reviews in the tech sector. It was then that she faced a glaring realization: Many people, especially early-career professionals, seriously sell themselves short in these potentially life-changing situations.

Utilizing her experience in both conducting and attending job interviews and performance reviews, Sydney decided to translate her observations, knowledge, and insights into real-talk, providing an actionable tool kit for helping ambitious professionals keep track of valuable work experiences and reach their career goals faster.

From the Back Cover

Job interviews can be frustrating. Preparing for them is difficult, and it sucks when you get caught off guard by a question, struggling for something flattering to say on the spot. It's like we're living in one big, never-ending memory game, but with higher stakes than just letting your five-year-old nephew think that he won, yet again. It's time to give our brains a break. It's time for a solution.

The Accomplishment Journal provides a home for your most valuable work experiences until it's time to leverage them in interviews, performance reviews, or job applications. Each journal question has been meticulously designed to draw out key situations relevant to common interview topics, helping you to identify "value-added" achievements as they happen. In other words, what you write in this journal will become your ultimate secret weapon in preparing for these life-changing situations. Heck yes!

This book will teach you about "behavioral interview questions," revealing why so many industries rely on them, while showing you how to structure your answers more effectively. It will also provide greater perspective on how to approach performance reviews or promotion requests, helping you to demonstrate the undeniable value that you bring to the table. As an added bonus, this journaling habit creates the opportunity to grow and evolve over time, helping you to learn from difficult work situations, turn your weaknesses into strengths, and ultimately take charge of your career trajectory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sydney Baker
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1999271904
• ISBN 13: 9781999271909
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 172