ABOUT THE BOOK
Drawing on 25 years’ experience of training recruiters and his work as one of the UK’s best known career strategists, John Lees presents the latest, updated edition of How To Get A Job You’ll Love, the definitive careers guide for the UK market.
This book not only helps readers answer the question ‘what kind of work would suit me best?’ but shows them how to overcome personal constraints, explore and connect with relevant people, and land a job that feels worth doing at least three days out of five.
It is a practical guide that helps readers to identify their passions and motivators, and release their hidden skills and potential. Lees then demonstrates how to apply these to our professional and personal lives, in order to make the way we spend our waking hours more creative, more meaningful and more enjoyable. Its focus is not on job change for its own sake. Quite simply, the aim is to make connections between one’s natural creativity and the way we plan our life’s work.
Key Selling Features
• A new preface by an industry expert, Dick Bolles, author of What Colour is Your Parachute
• New ideas on career resilience keeping up energy levels and confidence in a sustained down period
• A revised introductory chapter that takes account of the continuing difficulties of the job market and what careers actually mean in today's work of work.
• New material on how and why people do all the wrong things in a job search
• Refreshed overview of portfolio careers. Self employment as an option - based on the current knowledge that more and more people are fed up relying on employed roles and want to strike out and start a business of their own
• Refreshed and updated material on social media - why the internet won't and can't save your career how it can be a good tool if used wisely
• Branding yourself - personal branding and creating a congruent image to reflect your message and sell yourself
• Comprehensively revised list of useful websites and resources
MARKET / AUDIENCE
This book is written for anyone who is trying to make conscious, informed decisions about career choice and career change
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Lees is one of the UK’s best-known career strategists, and has written several other career titles including the bestselling: Job Interviews: Top answers to tough questions, Take Control of your career and Knockout CV (forthcoming 2013). John has a regular column in Metro, as well as regularly being featured in the national press.
