Career Continuation: Make It a SNAPP [Paperback]

Dr. Donald J. Hanratty (Author), Tresa Eyres (Author), Ron Biagi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 2001

This book is about the big picture of today’s workplace and your part in it. It shows you how, even if you land a job in a mammoth corporation, you’re working under new rules. Companies no longer make promises about employees’ futures. In short, everyone is a “temp” even when fully employed. Understanding this will affect the way you search for a job and how you behave after you secure it.

This book has news that should cheer you:

* Changing jobs no longer holds the same stigma it once did. Until the 1990s, conventional wisdom held that: (a) losing a job is dangerous and terrible, and (b) too many jobs on a resume automatically cast suspicion on your employment history. Today, those beliefs are pretty much gone. Conventional wisdom now holds that most people will have three or four professions. In the course of a typical 40-year work life, the average worker will change employers seven to ten times and change jobs about every 18 months. In fact, in today’s workplace, too few job changes on a resume may imply lack of energy and enthusiasm.

* You’re good. Chances are, you’re already a success. You have education, skills, experience and motivation. You have unique and possibly hidden talents that help make you employable. If you have ever held a job, you’re already at least somewhat experienced at job acquisition.

* You can start today. This book contain proven techniques and success tips you can begin using immediately. Achieving something tangible every day will boost your confidence and help increase your odds of success.

* The marketplace needs you. Despite periodic economic dips, there will always be a demand for skilled people.

Finding the right job, however, the one that satisfies your wants and needs today while leading to your ideal career destination may not be easy. You’ll need a clear vision of both the next job and the ultimate career, and then you’ll need a structured and disciplined approach to attaining both.

This book is about “career continuation.” It shows how to apply a simple and systematic process called SNAPP™ to find a satisfying job now, while you make plans to achieve your ideal career future. If you follow the guidelines, you’re likely to succeed.

This book is for you if:

* You’ve recently lost a job and need or want a new one.

* You’re looking for a way to get more out of your career.

* You’re looking to change your job or career, inside or outside your current organization.

* You’re exploring the idea of consulting or starting your own business.

* You’re entering or re-entering the workplace or volunteer world.

* You’ve just graduated from school and are looking for your first job in your chosen field.

* You’re facing retirement age, but you’re not yet ready to stop contributing.

“Career Continuation” presents the five-step SNAPP™ process to help you play the career game from a position of strength. Instead of waiting for things to happen TO you, you can begin to make the right things happen FOR you.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

Career satisfaction is linked to satisfaction in other parts of life. The greater your enjoyment of your work, the more confident and better adjusted you are likely to be. And the happier and more focused you are, the better your career prospects. Finding and maintaining the right career, therefore, should be worth your dedicated time and attention.

“Career continuation” is finding the right job today while creating your ideal future. It considers both long- and short-term views of your work life. It is a well-thought-out and well-executed plan. This book combines the framework and tried-and-true practices of career continuation with the discipline of a non-technical, easy-to-follow approach called SNAPP™.

SNAPP™ is a five-step process that can be applied to any goal you want to achieve. With respect to career goals, it combines project management processes such as goal setting, planning and managing details with career continuation skills such as strategic planning, communicating and motivating.

By taking a structured and disciplined SNAPP™ approach to your career continuation campaign, you can positively differentiate yourself in your target market. You’ll know you’ve succeeded when you receive multiple employment, consulting and business offers that meet your criteria for satisfying and rewarding work.

The “right” things rarely happen by themselves. The guidelines, tips and techniques presented in this book, when followed carefully and used in conjunction with other readily available resources, should help you make the right things happen in your next job and in your career. That is our goal.

Dr. Donald J. Hanratty

About the Author

Dr. Donald J. Hanratty is an entrepreneur, management consultant, volunteer and community leader who has spent the majority of his professional life helping people continue their careers.

In 1984, Don founded The Career Control Group, Inc., a Texas-based firm that coaches hundreds of changing organizations and thousands of individuals each year. Don and his team work with candidates individually, helping them design and develop customized career plans and campaigns that differentiate them and ultimately lead them to satisfying and rewarding work in employment, consulting, entrepreneurial, leisure and volunteer avocations.

Don is also a leader and active participant in career management associations. He has served for six years on the board of the world’s largest career transition firm network and was a founding board member of the International Association of Outplacement Professionals (IAOP). Founded in 1988, the IAOP grew to become the 2000-member International Association of Career Management Professionals. Ron Biagi is a performance improvement consultant who has spent his professional life helping individuals and corporations succeed. During his 30 plus years of business experience, Ron progressed from trainee to president and CEO of two regional financial institutions. He has led successful start-ups and has taken established businesses to new heights of profitability and success. Today, Ron counsels national and international companies, coaching them in the how of meeting and achieving their goals. He currently serves on the advisory boards of two U.S. companies. An author, speaker and executive coach, Ron is known for his leadership, discipline and ability to motivate people.

Ron Biagi and Tresa Eyres are co-founders of ITH (It’s the How, L.L.C.), a management consulting firm that provides the tools and processes businesses and individuals need to meet and exceed their goals. They deliver interactive workshops and speeches that provide the HOW-TOs of meeting and exceeding goals. In 2000, they co-authored “Make It Happen! SNAPP™ Your Way to Success in Business and in Life,” the first in the series of “Make It Happen!” books.

Tresa Eyres is a performance improvement consultant with more than 20 years of experience helping individuals and businesses improve productivity and profitability. She develops programs that increase knowledge, skills and abilities, and she coaches teams in the implementation. In her career, Tresa has moved from public school teacher to community volunteer, newspaper editor, corporate training professional, consultant and author.

Today, Tresa shares her expertise with individuals and corporations in the U.S. and overseas, helping to foster a well-trained and motivated work force. Programs with Tresa’s signature translate the HOWs into simple steps and tools that real people can learn and apply.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: It's the How, LLC (October 24, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967777313
• ISBN-13: 978-0967777313
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,781,474 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars using this book, January 4, 2003

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"docpmac" (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Career Continuation: Make It a SNAPP (Paperback)

This book provides the simple, common-sense, and creative tools that are most likely to lead to success in today's working environment. These are the things no one tells you about when you're starting out, and that you need to re-think your career when you're changing (or forced to change). No book can promise success, but using this book's method in good faith is likely to increase your odds of attaining success.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What to do once you HAVE the job, May 5, 2002

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Shintobee (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Career Continuation: Make It a SNAPP (Paperback)

This is a good book because it deals with what to do after you get the coveted job. A lot of books deal with getting a great job, but then what? Chances are, you're not gonna be at the same job until retirement.

I learned a lot from this book, like how to be a well-rounded employee. One needs to be an expert, entreprenurial and engaging. I'm only the latter, but it's important to be the first two also in order to get ahead.

I just got a new job recently and my boss gave me a large manual on how to work one of the intensive computer programs. In the old days, I would have let it collect dust on my desk. Now, in order to become an expert (and look good to the boss), I'm definately going to leaf through it and try to become more knowledgeable about my job -- and life-long career. It can only serve me well in the end.

Bravo to Eyres et. al. for sifting life down to a project-by-project basis. It makes it so much easier to swallow in smaller, well-planned bites!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very helpful book, March 20, 2002

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Scott Munson (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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My wife and I both found this book to be very helpful. She has just been "riffed" by a large company and I've fallen into something of a career rut myself. So we've been passing it back and forth. What I like best about the book is that it doesn't spend a lot of time belaboring the obvious, which so many business books tend to do. They take one or two ideas that might flesh out a long essay and stretch them out to the point of evaporating to make them into a book. After a while, you feel that the author is just saying the same thing over and over until he hits 200 pages. In contrast, "Career Continuation" moves along briskly so you never get bored or impatient. It also has a real nice focus on specific tools that you can use in making a new career choice. The layout of the book is pleasant to read too and easy on the eye in a way that makes it simple to find the things you want to work on. I also found value in the "Success Tips" which capture in a series of tables a lot of hard-earned wisdom. I also liked how the book stayed upbeat and optimistic without seeming too "Pollyanna-ish" or too "Stuart Smiley" (if that's the guy who was on Saturday Night Live.) All in all, we both found it a good way to try and organize a job search or major career change. It was well worth the twelve bucks.