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I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work, Fully Revised and Updated Paperback – March 1, 2016
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The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market
Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable. In this fully revised and updated edition of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone—whether you’re unhappy with your job, or without one—can implement a real and satisfying transformation.
Changing careers, conducting a job search, or starting a business is more complicated than ever before. Jansen has updated her classic guide to address the unique challenges of today’s job market, from the ever-more important world of social media to new ways of funding your own endeavors online. Filled with quizzes, personality assessments, and real-life examples, this guide helps you identify the type of work you’re best suited for and provides the know-how—and the inspiration—for transforming an uncertain time into an opportunity for meaningful change.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2016
- Dimensions5.33 x 0.69 x 8.01 inches
- ISBN-100143128515
- ISBN-13978-0143128519
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“A superb guide for career changers that will definitely improve your life. Jansen provides the tools, insight, and support you need to evaluate yourself and to develop and implement an effective action plan to move on to a job you will love or at least like a lot.” —Robin Ryan, bestselling author of 60 Seconds & You're Hired
“‘Life-changing’ is a bold claim. But with its inside-out approach to career creation, this book can be exactly that!” —Bryan W. Mattimore, bestselling author of 21 Days to a Big Idea
“A solid resource for people who know they don’t like what they do; it might also be a wakeup call for others numbed into job complacency.” —Publishers Weekly
“A must-read for anyone who is working and feeling dissatisfied, unfulfilled, or unhappy with their current work situation.” —Paul Tieger, bestselling author of Do What You Are
“I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This is the perfect guide if you want to find gratifying work but aren't sure how to get started…Jansen includes lots of quizzes and questions to guide your look inward, but the best part of the book is the explanation of the answers, which helps translate your unique attitudes and values into a meaningful career…Her handbook is a smart way to get going in a new direction.” —BookPage
About the Author
Julie Jansen has made five career changes in order to find work that fulfills and satisfies her professional and personal needs. A career coach and consultant, she has been featured in publications such as WSJ.com, Career Journal, Selling Power, Working Woman, and Smart Money and has been published in the National Business Employment Weekly. She is a frequent speaker at both non-profit groups and corporations throughout the United States.
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- Publisher : Penguin Books; Updated edition (March 1, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0143128515
- ISBN-13 : 978-0143128519
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.33 x 0.69 x 8.01 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #988,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,292 in Job Hunting (Books)
- #3,883 in Job Hunting & Career Guides
- #8,271 in Happiness Self-Help
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About the author

Julie Jansen - motivational speaker, career and executive coach, resume and LinkedIn profile writer, and meeting facilitator - works with leaders, managers, senior contributors and entrepreneurs in developing the competencies, skills and techniques needed to thrive in today's extremely chaotic business world.
Prior to starting her own business in 1999, Julie worked in a variety of industries including broadcasting, outplacement, consulting, training and recruiting for Post News Week, Drake Beam Morin, Manchester Partners and Provant. Julie's industry experience includes advertising, consumer products, entertainment, fashion, financial services, logistics, magazine publishing, manufacturing, new media, non-profit, public relations, and professional services.
Julie has identified eleven qualities that she considers fundamental to business and career success. These "Eleven Keys" are the basis for her coaching and dynamic, no-nonsense presentations on networking, leadership and management, career management, communication, executive presence, and time management.
Julie has been quoted in numerous publications including Fortune, Forbes, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Essence, and WSJ.com. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, ABC World News Now, MSNBC, NPR, CNN Financial News and many other television and radio stations across the United States.
A fully updated, third edition of her first book, I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work was published in the U.K., Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Romania and was released by Penguin in March, 2016. You Want Me to Work With Who? Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying and Successful Work Life...No Matter Who You Work With was also published by Penguin Books. Julie is the author of a Workplace Coach e-book series on Networking, Enhancing Your Image, Delegation, Managing Your Career, Time Management and Getting Organized.
Julie earned a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Hartford. She is a career coach, resume reviewer and speaker for Cancer and Careers.org (www.cancerandcareers.org).
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Got some decent takeaways from this book, but after listening to a little less than half the book, its clear that its meant to be read in hardcover/softcover. There are a number of interactive worksheets to complete, and in the audiobook version, it reads them verbatim, as well as all of the choices and numbers associated with scoring. In short, it gets very annoying and you don't get much out of listening to it.
I'm sure the hard copy has a better flow to it, but for me, the audiobook fell short.
It's okay. Just not great or very inciteful. Basic beginner book.
i've read a few books in the category in the last year, and found this one bland and poorly organized.
if you haven't read anything on career change, it's worth the $1 or so you can pay for a used copy for on amazon; but don't buy new.
still -- skip this and look at "what should i do with my life", "the pathfinder" and "in transition" and then take a strong or briggs myers survey online; doing so will be more productive.
i read this book after i'd already decided to leave my unfulfilling job, but from other reviews it appears that the book is a catalyst to get people off their butts and go for a change, which is of course a good thing, so i don't want to be too critical, but it did nothing for me.
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