Get Hired and Get Ahead Even Without Years of Work Experience Finding a job and succeeding is hard - especially if you're just starting your career. In Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career Success, 25 professionals share personal stories from their careers to create a definitive guide on how to get hired, get ahead and succeed in a rewarding career. Rather than a stuffy instructional 'how-to' book, Your Personal Career Coach is a collection of short, engaging real-life stories loaded with valuable advice, humorous confessions, and inspiring insights. Using their experiences and lessons learned, the Your Personal Career Coach authors act as guides to help readers maximize their job search, work relationships, and performance to establish gratifying and rewarding careers. In this book that readers will return to again and again, they will: - Discover how to effectively interview - Gain insight into working with your boss - Get the tools to prepare a presentation - Understand how to ask for a raise - Learn when and how to quit your job ... and much more The first in the series, Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career

Bored with your job? Frustrated at work? Need a big career change but don't know what? Perhaps you've watched as colleagues have fast-tracked their careers while you've been left behind. Or maybe you've got friends and work mates who've reinvented their career and wish you could do the same. If you're feeling dissatisfied or stuck with your current career or job, then this book is radically going to change your prospects! How? You need your own one-to-one consultation with an inspiring careers coach – and that's what you'll find inside. By giving you the tools to match your experience and skills to the exciting new career you dream of - and a plan of how to get it – you'll be able to make your career aspirations a reality. Career Coach 2012 shows you how to take back control over your career. Using the latest career management techniques you'll develop your own personal step-by-step action plan to make your job and career aspirations a reality, whatever they may be. This practical workbook takes you through a full career analysis exactly like a real career coach would; follow the week-by-week programme and complete the insightful quizzes and questionnaires to help you pinpoint your personal strengths and skills. Then work out how to match your experience and potential to a fulfilling and successful career – and how to achieve it. Written by the UK's leading career management expert, Corinne Mills, you can be sure you're getting the best advice from someone who knows the UK job market inside out – unlike other books available which are written by American authors for job hunters in the US. Motivating and inspiring, Career Coach 2012 shows you how to make smart decisions about your future career so you can really turn your dreams into a reality. Don't be afraid to take the leap – reinvent your career and make it happen!

Uniquely combining the latest research into careers with the most up to date coaching approaches, Julia Yates shows how to effectively apply coaching techniques to the world of career support. Demonstrating how coaching research explains practice and how practice benefits from research, The Career Coaching Handbook is accessibly written with a solid evidence-based foundation. Presented in three parts, the book covers developments in theory and research and applies this knowledge to the real world. Part 1, Theories of Career, looks at 21st century career paths, job satisfaction and career changes – both planned and unplanned. Part 2, Career Coaching Approaches, looks at coaching strategies that are applicable to career coaching in particular. Part 3, Coaching into the World of Work, covers specific real-world situations where coaching is beneficial, from job search strategies to CV and interview coaching. Evidence and research is used throughout to demonstrate the most effective strategies for coaching. The Career Coaching Handbook provides an essential introduction for students or practitioners who are interested in developing their own practice, finding new and improved ways to do things and understanding the theories that underpin effective career coaching practice.

Advance your career with this insightful playbook for underrepresented women In Prep, Push, Pivot, award-winning career coach and author Octavia Goredema delivers an indispensable career coaching guide for women looking for a new job, dealing with job loss, pivoting to a new career, or returning to the workforce after an extended absence. You'll discover practical strategies you can implement at crucial times during your career, ensuring your considerable talents and skills are used to their full potential. In this important book, you'll: Discover your true worth, cement your career values, and carve out a realistic and aspirational career plan Learn how to position yourself for a promotion, navigate a break in your career, and integrate your role as a mother or caregiver with your professional life Deal with monumental career changes, contribute to the development of the women around you, and benefit from an array of professional resources in your journey forward Perfect for women who are ready to overcome any obstacles that await them, Prep, Push, Pivot is a thoughtful road map to help women chart their professional and personal success.

Bestselling author offers a step-by-step program to making the right choices about a new career move Don't fear taking the leap into a new career with this seven step program from bestselling author and life coach Talane Miedaner. Whatever the situation or economic environment, Coach Yourself to a New Career gives you the tools to take matters into your own hands by assessing your needs and strengths, finding the right work fit, weighing options and possible sacrifices, and preparing your family for transitions. Packed with expert advice and helpful examples from her many statistical clients—as well as her own career change process—Miedaner shows how anyone can reinvent their professional life. Coach Yourself to a New Career: Offers a seven-step approach to career reinvention and practical advice for a smooth transition Profiles everyday people who achieved career reinvention on their own terms - and what their stories can teach you Shows you how to assess your needs and strengths Helps you decide what tough decisions or sacrifices you may have to make Prepares your spouse or family for transition Miedaner shares her own story of launching her coaching business—with careful planning, hard work, commitment and faith. She shows how you can follow other’s examples to achieve the professional life you want.