Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field [Paperback]

Marky Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 11, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0071439129 | ISBN-13: 978-0071439121 | Edition: 1

A complete program for quickly transitioning to a new career from the bestselling author of Fearless Interviewing

In Fearless Career Change, top career coach Marky Stein shows readers how to transition to a new career with minimal stress, time, and personal expense. She belies the myth that it takes years to prepare for a new career, and she offers a proven model for accelerating the career change process.

With the help of work sheets, quick tips, and sample documents--including resumes, cover letters, phone scripts, and more--she gets readers up and running with what they need to:

• Quickly identify their desired career paths
• Avoid procrastination, self-sabotage, fear of failure, and other psychological obstacles to starting a new career
• Get the training they need as quickly as possible
• Start their own businesses
• Write winning resumes and ace every interview--even if the new field is completely different from the old one

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"Kudos to Marky Stein for writing such a practical, inspired, and wise book."--Barbara Sher, New York Times bestselling author of I Could Do Anything if I Only Knew What It Was, www.barbarasher.com

Find a career that makes you happy--fast!

Fearless Career Change shows you how to quickly transition to a new profession without committing to years of study and the expense of school. Whether you're stuck in a dead-end job, have recently been laid off, or just want an exciting new career, this straightforward guide shows you how to make the move--cheaply, successfully, and right now. This step-by-step program will show you how to:

• Find the right career for your interests and skills
• Get the training you need as quickly as possible
• Write great resumes and cover letters that showcase your transferable skills
• Ace the big interview and jumpstart your career
• Or be your own boss and get entrepreneurial

"Marky's unique way of eliminating fear of failure and success makes it easy to make a career change at any age. Her techniques are light years ahead of the competition."--Paul Roberts, Host and Producer "1550 Today" WNTN 1550 Radio, Newton-Boston

"Marky Stein's Fearless Career Change is the perfect guide-book for those people who want to transition to a more meaningful career without having to start from scratch."--Margot King, Host of nationally syndicated radio show, "Job Talk"

Without resorting to psychological jargon, Marky Stein offers advice to help career changers get unstuck and take steps to find more fulfilling work."--Perri Capell, senior correspondent, CareerJournal.com

About the Author

Marky Stein (San Jose, CA) is a career coach and author on interviewing and career transitioning. She frequently speaks at career conferences and is well known to readers of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and other major publications.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (August 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071439129
• ISBN-13: 978-0071439121
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,513,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and thorough resource, September 15, 2004

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Chandra Prasad (New Haven, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field (Paperback)

Marky Stein is at her best when offering career wisdom that can be molded and adapted to fit the unique needs of individual jobseekers and professionals. With Fearless Career Change, she continues along her winning trajectory by giving readers the necessary tools to tackle the challenges that come with career change, whether those challenges be financial, social, or even psychological. Fearless Career Change doesn't offer any "quick fixes"-and beware of books that do. Rather, it offers practical approaches and sensible advice that will work over time, so long as readers make a concerted effort to follow her suggested course of action.

As a careers and workplace author (Outwitting the Job Market - Lyons Press 2004), I have looked to Marky Stein's books many times for inspiration. Her works possess the right blend of candor, rigorous research, and old-fashioned common sense. Fearless Career Change is as valuable as the others. In fact, considering that many professionals will change careers three times or more over the span of their working lives, Fearless Career Change might just prove to be indispensable.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Become an astronaut?, March 18, 2006

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Doctor Change "Doctor Change" (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field (Paperback)

Wanna be a fireman? An astronaut? A playwright? An evangelist? Then buy this book, it will tell you how! You get the idea. This short volume is best suited for the curious career seeker (ages 8 and up), not the serious professional interested in examining the possibilities. I have no idea who wrote the other reviews, but I wonder if they were paid!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HELP FOR THE ALWAYS CHANGING RENAISSANCE SOUL, April 23, 2005

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Margaret Lobenstine "www.ToGetUnstuck.com" (Central Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field (Paperback)

As a life coach for Renaissance Souls (people with too many interests to choose just one,) I don't know how many times I've heard the question, "But what do I say in the interview, when it's so clear I've never done X before?" I was so tickled when I came to the part of the book where Stein addresses just this concern, providing practical and reassuring answers. If you're a Renaissance Soul (see quiz at www.togetunstuck.com) then you by all means want to have this book on your shelf. After all, sooner or later, you know you'll "outgrow" your present career and want to do something else!