HOW TO CHOSE YOUR NEXT EMPLOYER-PB [Paperback]

Roger E. Herman (Author), Joyce L. Gioia (Author), Andrew T. Perry (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2000

This book will guide you step-by-step through the process of choosing your next employer. And when you’re finished, you’ll be ready to flip open that newspaper or click on that website¾and you’ll know exactly what you’re looking for.

What’s important to you? Handy Ask Yourself checklists help decide.

Avoid the potential pitfalls of job hunting with Your Job Search sections.

Explore on-line job hunting, the advantages of temporary employment, as well as self employment and sabbaticals in our valuable appendices.

Enjoy the help of career mentors who have “been there and done that.”

Check out what model employers offer their workers in Real-World Practices¾some will surprise you!

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Review

"What a powerful guidebook! Apply what you read in these pages and make a major impact on your career." -- Martin Yate, author of the "Knock 'em Dead" Job-hunting Series

About the Author

Roger E. Herman and Joyce L. Gioia -- this book was written by a team of Strategic Business Futurists who concentrate on workforce and workplace trends. Through their research, Roger Herman and Joyce Gioia are able to forecast the future with a high degree of accuracy. Often described as visionaries, they integrate a wide range of trend indicators to project change.

As Certified Management Consultants, they apply their research and insights to help corporate leaders understand and prepare for the years ahead. While far-reaching and thought-provoking, their writing and speaking have a distinctly practical orientation that makes sense.

Herman and Gioia balance the bottom line and the heart. They slip easily between right and left brain thinking. The result is a clear business orientation with a strong human flavor that reflects the evolution in the World of Work.

These futurists have their fingers on the pulse of change, and they report their findings in ways that everyone can understand and use. Their experience as professional speakers has taught them how to communicate effectively. This book is a product of their experience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 226 pages
• Publisher: Oakhill Press (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886939373
• ISBN-13: 978-1886939370
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,757,775 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good points but..., August 11, 2003

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This review is from: HOW TO CHOSE YOUR NEXT EMPLOYER-PB (Paperback)

The book is often very general. It gives you a series of questions ie: do you want to work at a small/large organization? and then maybe a couple paragraphs that might help you understand which is best for you. I picked up this book already having a general idea of what kind of organization I want and what kind of work I want to do, so there was not much that was helpful. It did give me a few more things to consider

The book really seems most suited to people who have already identified a few potential workplaces and want to see if they really are a good match. It doesn't give much information on how to find companies or surprisingly, how to research workplaces beyond talking to current employees. For example, there's no mention of the various websites for researching workplaces, although it does list the general jobseeker websites (monster, careerbuilder, etc.)

It also does little to explore governmental or nonprofit work other than asking you to consider whether or not it is important for you to work at a place where your work helps others/changes the world. It didn't discuss any of the other real pros/cons to working in these sectors.

The book also is clearly geared towards good economic times with low unemployment. It states that the "competitive advantage has shifted to you, the worker" and "as we move, through this new century, those conditions [booming economy and a technological explosion] will only improve." Since this is obviously not true today due to very high Unemployment, this information left a bitter taste in my mouth. Anyway, a minor detail but it did annoy me.

I would only recommend this book for people just entering the workforce or those who really are uncertain about what direction they want to head in. Furthermore, I suggest you check this out from the library and save your money. I was able to scan the entire book and pick out the relevant bits in about two hours and it won't be a book I'll return to.

P.S. The book includes short blurbs about what the best companies are doing to make employees happy. They weren't very helpful but were interesting. It also gives you several worksheets to fill out, encouraging you to rate the factors that are important to you and to consider what you liked or didn't like at previous workplaces.