Working Identity

Working Identity
Author: Herminia Ibarra
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2004-01-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422160653

How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into RealityWhether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession.In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we’ve learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become.Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.Through engrossing stories—from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist—Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: Explore possible selves Craft and execute "identity experiments" Create "small wins" that keep momentum going Survive the rocky period between career identities Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition Make time for reflection—without missing out on windows of opportunity Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

One Big Thing

One Big Thing
Author: Phil Cooke
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 159555484X

One Big Thing is about finding out what you were born to do with your life and how to use it to revolutionize your business or ministry---and change the world.

Switchers

Switchers
Author: Dr. Dawn Graham
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814439659

Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job or feel like you’re in the wrong profession? An industry that just isn’t a fit? Don’t just settle but succeed in the right career! Get unstuck and land a new career—one you’re genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated career coach and psychologist Dr. Dawn Graham, the book provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go. The first step is to recognize that the usual rules and job search tools won’t work for you. Resumes and job boards were designed with traditional applicants in mind. As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your candidacy stands out. In Switchers, Dr. Graham reveals how to: Understand the concerns of hiring managers Craft a resume that catches their attention within six seconds Spotlight transferable skills that companies covet Rebrand yourself—aligning your professional identity with your new aspirations Reach decision-makers by recruiting “ambassadors” from within your network Nail interviews by turning tough questions to your advantage Convince skeptical employers to shelve their assumptions and take a chance on you Negotiate a competitive salary and benefits package Packed with psychological insights, practical exercises, and inspiring success stories, Switchers helps you leap over obstacles and into a whole new field. This guide will help you pull off the most daring—and fulfilling—career move of your life!

Interview Intervention

Interview Intervention
Author: Andrew LaCivita
Publisher: BalboaPress
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452547033

If you are interviewing with a company, you are likely qualified for the job. Through the mere action of conducting the interview, the employer essentially implies this. So why is it difficult to secure the job you love? Because there are three reasons you actually get the jobnone of which are your qualifications and, unfortunately, you can only control one of them. iNTERVIEW INTERVENTION creates awareness of these undetected reasons that pose difficulty for the job-seeker and permeate to the interviewer, handicapping the employers ability to secure the best talent. It teaches interview participants to use effective interpersonal communication techniques aimed at overcoming these obstacles. It guides job-seekers through the entire interview process to ensure they get hired. It teaches interviewers to extract the most relevant information to make sound hiring decisions. iNTERVIEW INTERVENTION will become your indispensable guide to: ? Create self-awareness to ensure you understand the job you want beforenot afterthe fact. ? Conduct research to surface critical employer information. ? Share compelling stories that include the six key qualities that make them believable and memorable. ? Respond successfully to the fourteen most effective interview questions. ? Sell yourself and gather intelligence through effective question asking. ? Close the interview to ensure the interviewer wants to hire you.

Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers

Life's a Bitch and Then You Change Careers
Author: Andrea Kay
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613123493

Get out of your job funk and onto the career path of your dreams with this guide featuring expert advice for career changers of every age. Life’s a Bitch and Then You Change Careers is like a series of one-on-one sessions with veteran career counselor Andrea Kay. She takes you through the nine steps that have helped countless clients realize their potential and change their lives. The process begins with defining a career objective that’s based on who you are, not what others think you should be. Kay then offers a practical, step-by-step plan for making the shift, addressing every issue from research and training to networking, interviewing, and landing your ideal job. Along the way, you’ll find helpful exercises and real-life examples of Kay’s clients who have made the transition to a happier working life. Kay’s personable writing style, vast knowledge, and years of experience make this life-changing book the next best thing to an in-person consultation.

The Proximity Principle

The Proximity Principle
Author: Ken Coleman
Publisher: Ramsey Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0978562038

Right now, 70% of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it. One basic principle―The Proximity Principle―can change everything you thought you knew about pursuing a career you love. In his latest book, The Proximity Principle, national radio host and career expert Ken Coleman provides a simple plan of how positioning yourself near the right people and places can help you land the job you love. Forget the traditional career advice you’ve heard! Networking, handing out business cards, and updating your online profile do nothing to set you apart from other candidates. Ken will show you how to be intentional and genuine about the connections you make with a fresh, unexpected take on resumes and the job interview process. You’ll discover the five people you should look for and the four best places to grow, learn, practice, and perform so you can step into the role you were created to fill. After reading The Proximity Principle, you’ll know how to connect with the right people and put yourself in the right places, so opportunities will come―and you’ll be prepared to take them.

Career Jump!

Career Jump!
Author: Dorota Klop-Sowinska
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-09-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9789083007304

Do you feel stuck in your professional life? Are you looking for a new path and need a guide to take you through the necessary steps? This book takes you through a personally shaped career coaching process. It offers practical exercises and many inspiring stories from my clients who, through coaching, have found a new meaningful career.

Brave Thinking

Brave Thinking
Author: Mary Morrissey
Publisher: Waterside Pub
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-01-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781939116741

BRAVE THINKING is the culmination of more than 40 years of study, and 30 years of teaching this technology of transformation. People struggle with relationships. They struggle with money. They struggle with health. I’ve been coaching first as a minister, then for the last decade as a trainer outside the church world. But teaching, studying, and working in this laboratory called life. I’ve been both a student, and I’ve been a trainer in this laboratory, helping people unlock what it is they would love to have, be, do, give in their life. And helping them understand their capacity to do this. To use brave thinking and tap into the field of infinite possibility, potentiality, and work with a particular dream vision for their lives, so they can begin to see the pattern. Because once you see the pattern of how thoughts become things and how you can take what looks like very little and translate it into something much more – it’s as different as moving from simple addition to squaring in math. When you are working with simple addition, the only way to get to 25 is you must amass 25 ones. When you learn to multiply you find that you only need two 5’s to get to that same result. It takes way less effort and you have way more results. And when you move up the ladder of awareness a little bit further, you see you only need one 5. Brave Thinking will help people recognize that they have everything they need to live a life they love living, and a life that really has meaning and purpose and substance and significance. And I know how to do that. I know how to help them. BRAVE THINKING provides the code to a very different kind of thinking. Either one opens the doors to a potential that is something we are in love with, or something we fear. The purpose of this book is to provide very concrete direct clear simple understandings. Such as the world was flat or other kinds of commonplace thinking and help them recognize how much of that has governed their lives or the lives of people they know. It will show examples of people who dared to think beyond the boundaries of ordinary thinking and who dared to learn a new system of thinking. Rather than being condition based in a way of living life, they began to live a life that is vision-driven. And they came from a vision rather than living from circumstance. Most people think that when the circumstances change, ¡§then I can make a new decision, “then I can have something” “then I can be something,” “then I can do something.” What if it’s just the opposite? When you watch your television, and there are other common examples we’ll use, when you turn on a TV, the picture you are seeing comes from the frequency that your tuner is tuned to. And when you go to a movie theater, the dancing images on the screen are simply reflections of the light passing through the film that’s held before the projector.

Life After Law

Life After Law
Author: Liz Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351861476

Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life After Law shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership into an alternative career and draws from this experience, as well as that of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book. She acknowledges that changing careers is hard much harder than it was for most lawyers to get their first legal job after law school but it can ultimately be more fulfilling for many than a life in law. Life After Law offers an alternative framework and valuable analytic tools for potential careers to help launch lawyers into new fields and make them attractive hires for non-legal employers.

The Resume Coloring Book

The Resume Coloring Book
Author: Lea McLeod
Publisher:
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991328710

The Resume Coloring Book is a DIY formula for a successful, professional resume template. This template has gotten my clients interviews faster and more successfully than when they were writing a résumé on their own and not getting any results! And it's simple! Using a color-based, easy to follow method, you will create your DIY resume that looks like it was created by a professional, has a 60% better chance of being read, and greatly increases your chances of getting more interviews! The Resume Coloring Book will teach you how to identify and take credit for the skills you have, and, how to turn them into powerful credentials for your resume that will attract the employers you want to work for!