Techniques and strategies for professionals to bolster their job security by becoming a more valuable employee.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage • “Life has questions. They have answers.” —The New York Times Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

After spending the first 10 years of his career climbing the corporate ladder, Jeff Gothelf decided to change his approach to staying employed. Instead of looking for jobs, they would find him. Jeff spent the next 15 years building his personal brand to become a recognized expert, consultant, author and public speaker. In this highly tactical, practical book, Jeff Gothelf shares the tips, tricks, techniques and learnings that helped him become Forever Employable. Using the timeline from his own career and anecdotes, stories and case studies from other successful recognized experts Jeff provides a step-by-step guide to building a foundation based on your current expertise ensuring that no matter what happens in your industry you'll remain Forever Employable. This handy guide to your career and professional development shows you how to create your own content, use it to build your expertise and credentials and then scale it to build a continuous stream of income, interaction and community. As organizations seek to reduce costs, automate tasks and increase efficiency, how do you ensure you don't end up outside of those plans? Forever Employable shows you how so that you're always ready for the next step in your career. Reduce your stress, build your community, monetize your platform -- that's being Forever Employable.

The right career decision makes the rest of your life filled with happiness – Design it TODAY! Your decision to design your career plays a vital role in structuring your life so that you can lead it with contentment, satisfaction, joy and happiness. This self-help book, Design Your Career is a guide which will enable you to find your talents and strengths and make you understand your interests, realize your needs and also help build your character. Helpful websites has been identified which can be utilized in determining all these factors, which will help you design your career in a structured manner. The KCC – Matrix in this book, which is the author’s research, talks about how to gain knowledge, clarity and confidence by working upon your strengths, learning, development and practice. I believe that when all of the above factors are adhered to continuously, with the passage of time, you will keep marching ahead and ultimately attain “The Pinnacle” of your designed career. Come on, start designing it NOW!

In Activate Your Passion, Create Your Career author, television personality, and real estate mogul Madison Hildebrand inspires readers to consider their future in a bold new way. Through clever narrative on career strategies, tips, and advice that is surprisingly universal, Madison provides a veritable template to ignite the passion, strength, and inner power to transform obstacles into opportunities and succeed in your dream career. Madison Hildebrand, President and Founder of The Malibu Life, Inc., is one of the most recognizable faces in the world of real estate. As an esteemed and respected luxury real estate agent, Madison is a consummate professional and negotiating expert, with over $300 million in career sales. A six-year veteran of the small screen, Madison is most widely known as the original cast member of Bravo's popular television series Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.

This book is a unique guide to creating a thriving career, no matter what stage your career path is in. It outlines 10 Keys which engage you in creating your own success in any organizational culture. You can take the necessary steps toward sustaining the quality of your career, and this book is your guide. The 10 Keys ensure that you can manage your career by thinking about your needs and the needs of the organization, and how you can satisfy both.

Have you dreamed of creating a better future for yourself as an artist? Well now you can. Artist, educator, and career coach Rhonda Schaller provides insights and practical tools for readers to cultivate an inspired, sustainable art career. Both the established artist and the emerging creative will learn how to visualize a better future, empower their creativity, and build a career plan for artistic success. This fun-to-read self-help guide will change the way you think and validate the way you feel. Schaller gives artists many ways to solve career problems and plan the next steps, providing more than 50 unique career planning exercises and tools including creative visualization, self-assessment, and mind-map exploration. Based on her popular Creative Mind, Business Mind: Use of Creative Visualization in Career Planning course at the School of Visual Arts, chapters include Your Personal Vision, What Would You Do If You Couldn’t Fail, Visualizing Great Business Relationships, Artist as Entrepreneur: Attracting Funding, and Take Charge of Your Life. Required reading for every working artist who wants to have a creative career, this book will facilitate brainstorming and self-understanding for every career stage, and show artists how to apply their values and desires to become more successful.