E-book Category: Jobs, Mind, Psychology
E-book Title: DARE To Change Your Job and Your Life
Author: Carole Kanchier
Book Description: Are you: - Wondering what to do with your life?
- Wanting to get out of a rut?
- Needing knowledge and strategies to understand and control your personal and professional life?
- Wanting knowledge and strategies to help others?
- Desiring to become what you were born to be?
- Wanting courage to change?
If so, Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life is for you. This award winning best seller will help you jump start your personal and professional life in our evolving world! Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life Practical techniques and motivational content to help you
gain the courage to take charge of your career - and life! Newly updated, Dare to Change helps you understand how you and your career grow and change through life, and how you make important life decisions.It provides practical advice and tools such as questionnaires, exercises and case studies to help you move beyond traditional thinking about careers. Real-life stories of "Questers" show you how to motivate yourself to move forward.
Dare to Change shows you how to look at career advancement in new ways. A cutting edge, integrative, inspiring approach to career revitalization, Dare to Change is based on Kanchier's research with over 40,000 adults and sound psychological and business concepts. Dare to Change demonstrates that voluntary and involuntary career transitions are a normal part of growth and development and helps you understand where you fit in the career and life cycles.
This powerful and positive resource is for anyone wanting knowledge, courage and strategies to manage change. Contents at a Glance Chapter 1 Questers and the Contemporary Career
This Chapter describes contemporary career/life development and introduces the Questers - people like Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, Lee Iacocca, George Soros and thousands of less-known folks who are redefining the way we look at careers today.
Chapter 2 Quester Qualities
What makes a person a Quester? In Chapter 2 you'll read about the qualities Questers have in common - qualities you can develop for yourself.
Chapter 3 Are You a Quester?
Think you might be a Quester? Take The Quester Questionnaire to find out how many Quester qualities you already have. Then find tips for developing more.
Chapter 4 Career Change: Up-Down-Sideways
There are several routes to career satisfaction, including staying in the same field, changing fields, and going into business for yourself. Which is right for you? Chapter 4 will help you decide.
Chapter 5 The Career Cycle Meets the Life Cycle
If you look over your career, do you see a pattern emerge? Most people see definite career cycles of entry, mastery and disengagement. Learn how your career cycle meshes with your life cycle, and how you can put the process to work for you.
Chapter 6 Job Satisfiers
What makes for a satisfying career? It turns out there are several factors that are common to career happiness across all fields and cultures. How many of them are present in your job?
Chapter 7 Rate Your Job Satisfaction
How satisfied are you with your career? Take the quizzes in Chapter 7 to determine if you're suited to your job, if you're involved in your work, or if you're headed for career burnout. You'll also find tips for managing stress and increasing your energy level.
Chapter 8 The Courage to Risk: Psychological Aspects of Decision Making
Changing jobs can be risky-in fact, for some people it's downright paralyzing. Read the case studies in Chapter 8 to learn how others have minimized their risks by using a decision-making process that works.
Chapter 9 Prepare to Change
In this Chapter, you'll put to work the decision-making process you learned in Chapter 8. Following a step-by-step approach, you'll ready yourself for the changes ahead so you can act with confidence.
Chapter 10 Dare to Change
Now that you've decided on change, you'll need some practical job search help. Chapter 10 is loaded with information on conducting a thorough, successful job search. From setting your goals to using the Internet, from writing a dynamic resume to succeeding in the interview, this Chapter covers the basics and more.
So what can Dare to Change do for me? With over 25 years of demonstrated success in the career, empowerment, learning, development and business fields, I am uniquely qualified to write and talk about career/life transitions. I have researched career/life transitions, write about change, counsel individuals experiencing transitions and conduct workshops on transitions.
Most important, I have made many changes myself. I have changed jobs, been in and out of continuing education programs and lived in many different cites including Winnipeg, MB, Calgary and Edmonton, AB, Chicago, IL, Palo Alto CA and London, England. Jobs I have had include high school guidance department head, retail sales clerk, university professor, meat plant assembly worker, consulting psychologist, counselor, publicist, playground supervisor and arts and crafts director.
Planning for Change If you are wondering what to do with the rest of your life - because you are dissatisfied or bored with your job, going through a separation or divorce, reentering the workforce, contemplating a life or career change, or unemployed - this book is for you. A major shift in your career/life direction can create important gains in your life. It forces you to step out of the well-worn groove of your life and confront yourself in some basic ways. And it offers you the chance for an expanded sense of self, personal and professional growth, and hope. It also involves some risks.
I wrote Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life so that I could share my research and experience on the career/life quest with you.
As you journey through this book - and through your life - don't hold back because of concerns about "success" or the availability of jobs in your field. Whether the country is in an economic explosion or a recession, whether you want to work in a broad or a narrow field, attractive jobs are available.
Keep your options open. Focus on the opportunities available. By following the examples of the self-reliant Questers, who thrive on challenge and growth and turn crises into opportunities, you will gain the strength to take an active stance in your own life/career development.
Dare to Change will teach you to become the manager of your own life, to be in charge of your own destiny. You will find the knowledge and courage to improve the quality of your life and work and to make your innermost dreams come true. You will have power to achieve a more meaningful, satisfying and productive life - to attain the life you were meant to live - in a changing, challenging and exciting world.
Take time to plan for greater happiness and more personal and professional growth and success.
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