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Take Control of Your Career John Lees

Take Control of Your Career By John Lees

Take Control of Your Career by John Lees


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Summary

A practical guide to developing the best career strategy for you, this book shows how to overcome mental and physical barriers, make the best visible impact, and negotiate your job content, career advancement and pay. It also examines how to raise and maintain a good profile, and how to understand and manage others people's perceptions of you.

Take Control of Your Career Summary

Take Control of Your Career by John Lees

Are you wondering why everyone else appears to have a career plan? Is it true that only the most aggressive and power hungry people get what they want?

How to Take Control of your Career, adapted from John Lees earlier book, How to Get the Perfect Promotion, is a practical guide to developing the best career strategy for you.

Drawing on the experience of high performers, it shows you how to overcome mental and physical barriers, make the best visible impact, and negotiate your job content, career advancement and pay.

It will help you to get inside the mind of your employer; find out what makes them tick, and how you can use this information to your advantage. The book also examines how to raise and maintain a good profile as well as how to understand and manage others people's perceptions of you.

Take Control of Your Career Reviews

Highly recommended - always practical, but never patronising.

About John Lees

John Lees has been involved in the training and developing of recruitment specialists since the mid 1980s, from both public and private sectors. He undertook an advisory role to the RN careers service, and has provided help for Army personnel beginning civilian careers. He was Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (IEC) until 1993 when he left to become a Director of TGA, an employment research and careers advisory company. In 1999 he decided to go it alone and now runs his own human resources consultancy, specialising in career management and developing new tools to help with difficult career change decisions. John writes and speaks widely, and amongst his regular commitments acts as an online careers guru for lifebyte.com. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (FREC).

Table of Contents

1.How do I take Control2.What Makes A Career Come Together?3.Becoming Your Own Career Pilot4.What's Driving You?5.Solving Employer's Problems6.Being Visible7.Beyond Survivor Mode8.Life vs. Work9.Protecting Your Side of the Deal10.Career Traps11.New Choices in a New Job12.Jumping Ship13.10 Steps Towards Taking Control of Your Career14.Appendix: Useful Web Sites

Additional information

GOR012853654
9780077109677
0077109678
Take Control of Your Career by John Lees
Used - Like New
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20050916
256
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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