Everyone goes through a career change at least once in their life and most people switch careers several times. This transitional time often causes people to feel stuck, depressed, dejected, confused, alone, and stressed. Back in Control contains counsel and comfort for people working through these changes, turning an unconstructive and emotionally damaging experience into a personally enriching and beneficial one. This book picks up where the "how to" manuals leave off. Countless career books will help readers craft a winning resume, use the Internet and other resources, or prepare for the all-important interview. Wilson's book helps readers manage something even more difficult: themselves. It talks about the stuff that most of us want to know about from others but are seldom in a position to ask. It features personal reflections collected from people going through career changes--real-life experiences described in rich and candid detail.
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Diane Wilson writes with expert knowledge, courage, and compassion about job loss as a tool to finding the right opportunities. -- Anita R. Brick, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Helps readers gain knowledge and strength to manage career transitions successfully, with solid content and real experiences of career transitioners. -- Dr. David Helfand, author of Career Change
Personal and prescriptive without being in-your-face, helpful without being accusatory. Must reading for those concerned about their career transition. -- R. William Holland, Executive Vice President, Right Management Consultants
Provides a practical framework for developing transition solutions. I recommend it for anyone contemplating or currently involved in career transition. -- Michael L. Buckman, Senior Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
Splendid—full of interesting stories and crystal clear suggestions. Shows how to add distinction and avoid extinction in today's economy. -- Richard Leider, author of The Power of Purpose
Helps readers gain knowledge and strength to manage career transitions successfully, with solid content and real experiences of career transitioners. -- Dr. David Helfand, author of Career Change
Personal and prescriptive without being in-your-face, helpful without being accusatory. Must reading for those concerned about their career transition. -- R. William Holland, Executive Vice President, Right Management Consultants
Provides a practical framework for developing transition solutions. I recommend it for anyone contemplating or currently involved in career transition. -- Michael L. Buckman, Senior Vice President, Lee Hecht Harrison
Splendid—full of interesting stories and crystal clear suggestions. Shows how to add distinction and avoid extinction in today's economy. -- Richard Leider, author of The Power of Purpose
From the Publisher
With over fifteen years of experience Diane Wilson shows that you can manage the mental and emotional underpinnings of transition to your benefit. She puts you back in control with actions that increase emotional balance, confidence, intuition, energy, and productivity. After reading this book, you'll view transition as an opportunity instead of a formidable chore. Back in Control was selected as a finalist in the Business/Leadership category of the 2005 Nautilus Book Awards. The Nautilus award recognizes authors and titles that contribute to our society's awareness and embrace of spiritual and ecological values such as compassion, sustainability, simplicity, and global peace.
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A Guide to Taking Control,
By Dennis Doverspike "hrlitehouse" (University of Akron, OH, USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Back in Control: How to Stay Sane, Productive, and Inspired in Your Career Transition (Culture Tools Series) (Paperback)
In life we are often presented with challenges. We can take control of those challenges or we can let those challenges control our minds and emotions. In this era of rapidly changing job and work environments, many people find themselves faced with job losses or underemployment. In an excellent treatment of the issue of emotional responses to career change, Diane Wilson guides individuals through the process of taking control of their careers and of career transitions. Diane's book, Back in Control, deals with the emotional side of job hunting, and, therefore, fills a real hole in the existing literature. Diane's book will aid self-awareness by showing people that they are not alone in experience a wide range of confusing emotions when faced with career moves. But she goes beyond just illustrating the problems; she also offers a variety of potential solutions to the problems encountered in career transitions.
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Highly readable and incredibly useful,
By Laura Wimbish, Ph.D. (Chapel HIll, NC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Back in Control: How to Stay Sane, Productive, and Inspired in Your Career Transition (Culture Tools Series) (Paperback)
"This book is a rare treasure in that it goes beneath the surface to grapple with the real psychological and social effects of unemployment. Diane Wilson provides a "roadmap"of the emotional terrain one is likely to encounter in successfully navigating a career transition. Awareness, acceptance and action ... her three pronged approach helps us to transcend counter-productive knee-jerk reactions and find our way safely to the other shore."
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Help and Hope For The Emotionally Unemployed,
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This review is from: Back in Control: How to Stay Sane, Productive, and Inspired in Your Career Transition (Culture Tools Series) (Paperback)
"This book offers something different from the typical job search book--hope. Reading it is like having an ally in your corner-a source of support, comfort, fresh perspectives, and practical wisdom. I recommend it to anyone who is struggling with the frustrations of a career transition."
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career amnesia, emotional employment, know your own story, job support groups, conditioning your mind, condition your mind, career transition, behavioral style, career losses, intuitive side Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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My father worked forty-two years on his first job. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
career amnesia, emotional employment, know your own story, job support groups, conditioning your mind, condition your mind, career transition, behavioral style, career losses, intuitive side Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Feng Shui, Neutral Zone, Safe-Keeping Self, Experimental Self New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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