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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.

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“Is it possible to improve an already wonderful classic? Apparently it is, because that's exactly what Julie Jansen has done. This book could have saved me years of frustration at the start of my career!” —Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Work & Never Get Stuck

“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

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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

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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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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2016

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Was a little more "used" than I expected.

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Lisa Dean

Some Helpful Advice, Examples Should Have Been More Diverse

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2021

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This book has some good advice and helped me to think more about what I am looking for in a job, but I often felt alienated as I was reading because the only examples the author presents are people from the corporate world. The examples should have been more diverse. People from all work environments struggle with these questions and it would have been much more helpful to see them profiled here.

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Trevor Taylor

This book requires effort on your part

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This is a self-help book. Full disclosure it's going to ask you to make some commitments of your time and for you to apply yourself if you want to get the results that the book wants you to get. I was just looking for a fun read so I wasn't really prepared to make those commitments. As a result the book rang a little hollow for me, but for the right person, this could be a very good/impactful book!

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Anthony Fusco

Decent content, but not recommended as an audiobook.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2018

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Disclosure: I am reviewing the Audible/Audiobook version of this title.

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.

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Cindy Fox

It's okay.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 25, 2011

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Like others have stated, it's a bit self-evident. She breaks down people into different groups, but chances are you don't fit in just one group and will need to read a few different chapters. Even there, it seems she assumes certain things, such as people wanting a 'traditional' job or start their own business, but that's it. No options it seems for stay at home moms, self learners, create your own world or anything out of the 'norm'.

It's okay. Just not great or very inciteful. Basic beginner book.

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When I purchased this book, I was at a dead end job, I knew I wanted more and knew I couldn't get it there. I quit and landed a great job!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2016

awesome

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2010

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a weak contribution to the career change / self discovery topic.

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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sorry don't remember

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Catherine Blais

Too Focused

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 31, 2014

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Nice book and well written but too focused on 6 or so genres of peoples looking for a new career. Being someone who did not fit (not even close) into one of these categories, I couldn't continue reading and had to get another book.

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