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Targeting a Great Career (Five O'Clock Club)

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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.

A very good way to get things started in a career started...and low cost vs. seeing a consultant too.

- Chris

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.

Working with a career counselor who recommended this book as well as the website for The Five o'clock club. There is a lot of sound advice and exercises in this book.
Assists with formulating a precise plan for interviewing and landing a new job. Especially with some of the personal, emotional, and psychological aspects of losing a job and
what drives us to certain jobs and professions.