How to Get a Job You'll Love: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your Talents and Finding Your Ideal Career. John Lees [Paperback]

John Lees (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2008

John Lees’ bestselling careers manual teaches you how to tap into your hidden talents and identify what type of career you really want. It helps readers to overcome some of the most common mental barriers that stand in the way of career change, and sets out a five-point plan of action which includes networking, job search strategies and successful interview techniques. Now in its fifth edition, How To Get A Job You’ll Love has been updated to include new resources and references.

NEW IN 2009/10 EDITION:

• Competency based interviews material in Chapter 12
• Revised Chap 9 on finding the right field of work
• Revised Chap 10 on making a complete career change
• Appendix 2 Case studies of clients who have been helped by the book
• Updated material on age discrimination
• New list of useful job sites

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

John Lees is one of the UK's most prominent career coaches with 20 years experience of training recruiters. He specialises in helping career changers gain the confidence and skills to find a job they'll love and overcome any barriers in the way of success. John is a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian, Personnel Today and People Management, and frequently appears as a keynote speaker at major careers events including Forum 3 and One Life. He is the author of a bestselling portfolio of career development titles including Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions, a comprehensive toolkit for dealing with awkward, probing, personality and competency based interview questions; Take Control of Your Career, a practical guide to developing your best personal career strategy; and Why You? CV Messages To Win Jobs, which draws on extensive research into the way employers read CVs to show readers how to develop the right format to win a place on that all important shortlist

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 5th edition (October 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077121805
• ISBN-13: 978-0077121808
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,709,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Lees is one of the UK's best known career coaches and authors. John specialises in helping people make difficult decisions - difficult because they don't know what to do next, or because there are barriers in the way of success. He has delivered workshops in the USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and is a major presenter at major consumer events including The Vitality Show and Forum 3 and has also featured as a speaker at the world's largest international career conferences in the USA.

John writes regularly for the Times, The Guardian and has a regular column in People Management. His work has been featured on Channel 4's 'Dispatches' and on BBC 2's Working Lunch and he regularly provides insights into the world of work on radio and in publications including Management Today, The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Psychologies, Eve and SHE.

John is the author of several bestselling books including 'How to get a Job You'll Love: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your Talents and Finding Your Ideal Career', 'Why You? CV Messages to Win Jobs', 'Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions', 'Take Control of Your Career' and 'Career Reboot: 24 Tips for Tough Times'.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The UK's Parachute January 5, 2010

By Passionman

Format:Paperback

John Lees is a leading authority in career planning in the UK and here brings his experience to bear in a coherent book on career change. Admittedly standing on the shoulders of Dick Bolles's What Color is My Parachute? and other pioneers of the bottom-up approach, he introduces his own useful concepts (e.g. "house of knowledge", "field generator") in a well presented and easy-to-read book.

Vaughan Evans, business and career strategist
Author, BACKING U! A Business-Oriented Approach to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success