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Targeting a Great Career (Five O'Clock Club) [Paperback]

Kate Wendleton (Author)
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Five O'Clock Club January 1, 2006
Landing the job of your dreams means you need to have a dream to begin with. Targeting a Great Career helps you identify that dream . . . make it specific . . . and figure out step by step how you can achieve it. Kate Wendleton and The Five O'Clock Club have already helped tens of thousands of job hunters across the country discover what they're best at, what they love doing, and how they can turn their vision into reality. Exercises throughout the book allow readers to picture what they want their life to be like in the future and what they can do today to make their dreams come true. The celebrated Five O'Clock Club method involves work ... lots of work. And much of that work is research - research on the lnternet into the areas you have targeted; Targeting a Great Career is filled with strategies and tips that can help you achieve your goals.

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The best book on the market to help you figure out who you are, what you enjoy doing, and what you want to do with your life.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 001 edition (January 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1418015040
  • ISBN-13: 978-1418015046
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #393,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kate Wendleton is a nationally syndicated career columnist and recognized authority on career development, having appeared on the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN, CNBC, Larry King, National Public Radio and CBS, and in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine, Business Week and other national media. She also advises major corporations about employee career-development programs.


She has been a career coach since 1978, when she founded The Five O'Clock Club' and developed its methodology to help job hunters and career changers of all levels in job-search-strategy groups. This methodology is now used by branches of The Five O'Clock Club, which meet weekly in the U. S. and Canada.

Kate founded and directed The Career Center for seven years, at The New School for Social Research in New York. A former CFO of two small companies, she has 20 years of business-management experience in both manufacturing and service businesses.

She attended Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and received her MBA from Drexel University. She is a popular speaker with groups that include the Wharton Business School Club, the Yale Club and the Columbia Business School Club.

While living in Philadelphia, Kate did long-term volunteer work for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walnut Street Theatre Art Gallery, United Way, and the YMCA. Kate currently lives in Manhattan.

Wendleton is the author of many Five O'Clock Club books on career-development and job-hunting.

The original Five O'Clock Club was formed in Philadelphia in 1883.
It was made up of the leaders of the day, who shared their experiences
"in a spirit of fellowship and good humor."

 

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have, July 8, 2006
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G. J Wiener (Westchester, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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Whether you are casually thinking about making a minor change in your career or in the mdist of an all out job search, Targeting A Great Career by Kate Wendleton is a must have book for your library.

The steps to take for managing your career are outlined very clearly. The author clearly relates to his/her audience by giving specific examples of targeting industries and sub industries as well as a variety of positions. Her prospective is to be open minded yet focused on what you want. Example if you do not want a banking career, do not apply for such a position. A few pages in you will be determined to get a career that you want and not merely blindly answer every ad that comes vaguely close.

The author keeps things in perspective. She realizes that some people may be more anxious to find something right away. Therefore, she outlines a plan for that scenario as well. She emphasizes to research careers for the short term and the long term so that you become knowledgeable and your career takes a definite path.

The sections on the sven storeis and the life plans are excellent and even go beyond just work. The idea is to make your entire life rewarding and Kate Wendleton is very conscious of this.

It seems as if Kate's Five O Clock Club is a reasonable service. Yes, there are free resources out there if you are a long time between jobs. However, the outline of Kate's services is really fairly reasonable almost comparitive to donating to a good charity or belonging to a special interest club.

If you are looking for the long haul, Targeting A Great Career is a sound investment in yourself.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars pretty good, April 25, 2008
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A very good way to get things started in a career started...and low cost vs. seeing a consultant too.

- Chris
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars OK Job Search Book, May 9, 2008
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Robert S. Allen (North Whitehall, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This book gives some decent ideas about how to go about conducting a job search and narrowing your focus. By placing a great deal of emphasis on the changing job market and how important it is to update and improve your skill set and network list, Targeting a Great Career drives home the point that you as an individual must constantly improve. The self-tests help you hone in on what you want to do and how to get to that point that you are doing what you want.

On the downside, there are FAR too many case studies and personal examples. Not many people really care how Jim from Peoria, an ad executive, decided he really wanted to raise pandas and found a non-profit near his home that needed an marketing campaign to solicit donations. Also, the authors keep touting the self-tests, and how vital they are, but don't get to them until the end of the book.

All in all, a so-so book.
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