Be Your Own Career Coach : The Toolkit You Need To Build The Career You Want

"All the expertise and proven benefits of one-to-one time with a professional career coach, but for a fraction of the price. Take control of your career, improve your employability, identify your unique brand and skill set and fast track your career to the next level. Includes a full, detailed career analysis using the latest career management techniques, together with expert guidance and advice, this will allow you to pinpoint your personal strengths, develop your abilities and take control so you can build a plan that will make your career aspirations a reality. This practical, friendly and accessible guide includes assessments, assignments, planning exercises and fascinating case-studies."--Publisher's website All the expertise and proven benefits of one-to-one time with a professional career coach, but for a fraction of the price. Take control of your career, improve your employability, identify your unique brand and skill set and fast track your career to the next level. Includes a full, detailed career analysis using the latest career management techniques, together with expert guidance and advice, this will allow you to pinpoint your personal strengths, develop your abilities and take control so you can build a plan that will make your career aspirations a reality. This practical, friendly and accessible guide includes assessments, assignments, planning exercises and fascinating case-studies. Cover 1 Be Your Own Career Coach 4 Contents 6 About the author 7 Publisher’s acknowledgements viii 9 introduction ix 10 How to use this book xii 13 Your life goals and your legacy 20 Your values and beliefs 36 Your likes and dislikes 52 Balancing your work and your life 72 What’s your brand? 86 Family: fitting your lifestyle/career with theirs 100 Family as a career 108 The evolution of your career; can you future-proof it? 118 Soar with the egos 140 Putting it back 166 Learning and earning 174 Getting the word out there 190 Wage slave or captain of your own destiny? 198 Bibliography 217 Glossary 218 Index 220 "Realise your goals, discover your calling and reinvent your career with expert guidance and a bespoke plans that will fast track you to the next level of success."--Publisher description