KISS Guide to Managing Your Career [Paperback]

Kenneth Lawson (Author), Ken Lawson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2000 | Series: Keep It Simple Series

This guide helps the reader to make an informed, personal choice of the right career. In an easy-to-use format, it describes the factors which influence people's working lives, thus providing them with the means to take control and achieve that longed for career change.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

“Pulls together everything that needs to be said about careers... Clear, simple and direct, authoritative and practical.” -- Edward Wakin, management columnist and co-author, Into the Networked Age

“Remarkably informative and well written, with expert graphics, color and a visual presentation that will knock your socks off.” -- Wendy S. Enelow, President, Career Masters Institute and co-author, Cover Letter Magic

From the Publisher

No matter how much or little work experience you have, managing your = career effectively takes clear thinking and careful planning. The KISS Guide to Managing Your Career is filled with expert advice on pursuing a career change, navigating a job search, succeeding in the workplace and much more. Features of the book include:

- more than 400 pages, fully illustrated with photographs and drawings

- colorful sidebars, boxes and icons throughout

- dozens of worksheets, exercises and references to additional resources

- definitions of key career management terms

- comprehensive glossary

- appendices of relevant books and web sites

The Keep It Simple Series is the new standard in how-to books! Written by leading experts, each KISS book is designed to help readers build confidence from the start, and learn gradually and thoroughly to the very last page. Much more than introductions to various subjects, these inspiring and innovative guides are the ones that readers can trust.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 415 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT; 1st edition (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789461382
• ISBN-13: 978-0789461384
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #448,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What are you good at? What will make you happy?, May 16, 2001

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KISS Guide to Managing Your Career (Paperback)

With this guide in hand, you can finally take charge and manage your career. Discover your key career objectives and personal goals and then navigate the job market to land the right job. Ken Lawson will show you how to develop options, make choices and maximize your strengths through identifying your values, skills and personal qualities.

Ken Lawson is a counselor, coach and educator who works with individuals and groups in a variety of career management roles. He discusses how you can manage your career, find out what you are really good at, move from one job to another, develop a career action plan, take charge of a job search, present yourself in the best light and how to network for career vitality.

Throughout the book you will find little extras. These are fun boxes of trivia, a definition of an term, a Web site address or a fun character pointing out a very important point, a complete no-no, a technical detail or whispering the inside scoop to you.

If you want success and satisfaction from your career, Ken advises you to put yourself in command of your life. He empowers you by helping you to paint your own career canvas. When you go to a party, are you proud of your answer to: "So, what do you do?"

Are you more interested in objects, information, concepts or people? This question can lead you into a job which consists of arranging items (perhaps this could be a secretary who is organizing files) or coaching (where you are helping people on a more personal level to improve their lives through your own life skills). They are quite different types of jobs and your interests will show you how you will fit into one of the four basic categories of interest.

Once you have taken inventory of your interests and skills, you can then determine your own personal style. Are you dependable, detail-minded, frank, fair-minded? Are you an extrovert or an introvert? You can actually determine your personality type as well. Once you know who you are and what you want to do, Ken takes you to the next step. Gearing up for your job search.

The all important resume is discussed in detail. What do you put in a resume? What should you NEVER put in a resume?

If you still want to do more research (this book is comprehensive), you can look for some of the books in the resource section. There is also a list of Web sites you can visit that look very helpful. A simple glossary and index, make your life easier and help you save time. Perhaps if more people would read this book before making a career choice they would have a great map for their future.

~The Rebecca Review

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended!!, August 19, 2011

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Zoe River - See all my reviews

This review is from: KISS Guide to Managing Your Career (Paperback)

I highly recommend this book to everyone and anyone who wants any kind of help with getting or improving their career.

I have picked this book up a couple of times now when I have been looking for guidance/help, and each time it has hit the nail on the head with the advice it has given. Amazingly insiteful into the ins and outs of career decisions, job hunting, and especially the psychology and the politics of workplaces. Seriously, not sure where I would be without this book and its advice.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Comprehensive Career Guide Going, February 28, 2001

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Patricia A. Sterling (Hastings-on-Hudson, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KISS Guide to Managing Your Career (Paperback)

Spare yourself the ordeal of researching the hundreds of books out there on career guidance. Ken Lawson's KISS GUIDE TO MANAGING YOUR CAREER is the most comprehensive, beautifully written and visually appealing work on the subject you'll ever need (and I speak with authority: I'm a 40-something professional with over 20 years of experience in changing jobs and reading books about it). Lawson helps you think seriously about yourself ("What moves you?"), how to take charge of your career, plan and implement your job search, and how to keep networking ("the most important career management activity you can pursue") for continued career vitality. He's also provided excellent Appendices, including "Good Books" that go into greater depth about resumes, interviewing, recruiters, freelancing and consulting, networking, on-line job sites, negotiating, starting a business, office politics and more. In short, the KISS GUIDE TO MANAGING YOUR CAREER is simply terrific.