Strategic Career Management (Get and Keep the Job You Want)

Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “by failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.” Strategic Career Planning is the ultimate form of career preparation. It will help you to navigate your career to the level of success you may only be dreaming about right now.To help you prepare, in this book I am going to teach you how to use a powerful process that many companies have used to survive and prosper in both good times and bad. Applying it to managing your career will require you to apply a proven effective business management tool to your career management.If you cannot conceive of how the skills needed to run a business can help your career and you are a quitter, then stop reading now and give this book to someone who has the will and imagination to succeed. For any of what follows to help you, you will need to change the narrow way you have thought of yourself, your job, and your career. It may be a bit uncomfortable, and it may not seem like a perfect fit at first, but if you will give it real effort, it will produce amazing results for you, and for anyone who applies these lessons.