Oh Snap! My Career Is in Crisis : Craft a Strategy to Get Your Career Back on Track

The life coach and author of Whoops! I Forgot to Achieve My Potential offers a step-by-step guide out of crisis and onto your dream career path. A career crisis can take many forms. Maybe you're stuck in a rut. Or maybe you got the big promotion you always wanted, only to discover it's not dream job you were imagining. Your first impulse may be to go out and take the next job you can find—or to give up on your career all together. But all too often, those emotional reactions simply lead us from one career crisis to another. Before you start grasping for solutions, you need a strategy. In Oh Snap! My Career Is in Crisis , life coach Maggie Huffman guides you through the process from finding courage and clarity you need to begin, to executing your strategy once you've designed it. Are you in a career crisis thinking about changing jobs' Are "should I stay or should I go" the lyrics for your current earworm' Or does it feel like the choice was or shortly will be made for you' Maybe the life of a barista sounds incredibly appealing. Or maybe you got the big promotion, but it just wasn't as magical as you thought it was going to be. There are a lot of types of career crises are you in one' If you think you are, then you are its that simple. Your first instinct might be to jump into action to fix it. STOP! You need a strategy! Don't update your LinkedIn profile, or email your resume to headhunters, or start calling your network. Wait on all that before you create a big mess of frantic activity. The first thing you need to do is read Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis. Your career is important. Its approximately half of your waking life. Your identity is tightly wrapped up in what you do. The next move should not be in reaction to how you got into your current career crisis. The next move should be a strategic move, designed to get you where you want to be in the short, medium, and long term. Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis is a bit like a dry martini: 4 parts pure, distilled Maggie Huffman, 1 part Art of Work by Jeff Goins, with a splash of What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard N. Bolles. Most importantly, its shaken, not stirred. Let Maggie Huffman guide you through your career crisis in the third book of her Unlock Your Potential Series "Are you in a career crisis--thinking about changing jobs? Are "should I stay or should I go" the lyrics for your current earworm? Or does it feel like the choice was or shortly will be made for you? Maybe the life of a barista sounds incredibly appealing. Or maybe you got the big promotion, but it just wasn't as magical as you thought it was going to be. There are a lot of types of career crises ... are you in one? If you think you are, then you are -- it's that simple. Your first instinct might be to jump into action to fix it. STOP! You need a strategy! Don't update your LinkedIn profile, or email your resume' to headhunters, or start calling your network. Wait on all that before you create a big mess of frantic activity. The first thing you need to do is read Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis. Your career is important. It's approximately half of your waking life. Your identity is tightly wrapped up in what you do. The next move should not be in reaction to how you got into your current career crisis. The next move should be a strategic move, designed to get you where you want to be in the short, medium, and long term. Oh Snap! My Career is in Crisis is a bit like a dry martini: 4 parts pure, distilled Maggie Huffman, 1 part Art of Work by Jeff Goins, with a splash of What Color Is Your Parachute by Richard N. Bolles. Most importantly, it's shaken, not stirred."--Amazon.com