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The ultimate career success workbook : tests & exercises to assess your skills & potential! / Rob Yeung.
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TextPublication details: Kogan Page Limited, 2003.Description: vii, 200 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0749438290
- 9780749438296
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| 650.14 POP Winning at job interviews Igor S. Popovich. | 650.14 SYR Goodbye, 9 to 5 / Michel Syrett | 650.14 VER Succeeding at interviews / | 650.14 YEU The ultimate career success workbook : tests & exercises to assess your skills & potential! / | 650.142 LEE Why you? : CV messages that win jobs / | 650.142 MCB CVs and applications / | 650.144 INN The interview book : your definitive guide to the perfect interview technique / |
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Featuring insights from real-life employees and managers, along with exercises, checklists and advice, Ultimate Career success helps readers formulate a long-term plan for their career success.
Tests & exercises to assess your skills & potentia
Includes index.
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- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Establishing your values and career priorities (p. 7)
- A warning (p. 8)
- Understanding the importance of core values (p. 8)
- Self-test: establishing your values (p. 10)
- Eulogy exercise (p. 13)
- Priorities exercise (p. 18)
- Encapsulating your values (p. 20)
- 2 Beating office politics (p. 23)
- Self-test: identifying politics where you work (p. 24)
- Recognizing political problems at work (p. 26)
- Self-test: measuring your political skill (p. 27)
- Seeking a second opinion (p. 29)
- Self-test: your style of tackling tricky people (p. 32)
- Getting tougher (p. 34)
- 3 Exerting influence at work (p. 37)
- Self-test: identifying your style of influencing (p. 38)
- Understanding different influencing styles (p. 40)
- Exercise: putting influence into action (p. 47)
- Final thoughts (p. 49)
- 4 Investing in your CV (p. 51)
- Self-test: measuring your core competencies (p. 52)
- Exercise: stop, start and continue (p. 61)
- Further skills (p. 63)
- 5 Jumping through organizational hoops (p. 73)
- Self-test: understanding your organizational effectiveness (p. 73)
- Appraisals (p. 75)
- Promotion (p. 78)
- Internal interviews and assessment centers (p. 80)
- Training courses (p. 82)
- Mentoring (p. 84)
- Resigning (p. 87)
- 6 Moving up in management (p. 91)
- Self-test: measuring your readiness for management (p. 92)
- From team worker to team manager (p. 94)
- Self-test: distinguishing leadership from managership (p. 99)
- Combining managership with leadership (p. 103)
- Exercise: learning from role models (p. 104)
- 7 Understanding your impact on others (p. 107)
- Self-test: understanding your personality type (p. 108)
- Grasping the importance of your personality (p. 116)
- Respecting personality differences (p. 117)
- Gathering feedback for further insight (p. 119)
- 8 Improving your work/life balance (p. 125)
- Self-test: measuring your work/life balance (p. 126)
- Exercise: defining your personal work/life balance (p. 129)
- Taking a career break (p. 131)
- Part-time working (p. 134)
- Job-sharing (p. 135)
- Other flexible options (p. 137)
- Going solo (p. 139)
- Self-test: measuring your work discipline (p. 140)
- 9 Negotiating for more (p. 145)
- Striking the right balance (p. 146)
- Self-test: evaluating your negotiating effectiveness (p. 147)
- Step-by-step negotiation (p. 148)
- Understanding your worth (p. 154)
- 10 Changing career track (p. 157)
- Exercise: searching for reasons to like work (p. 158)
- Self-test: measuring your work dissatisfaction levels (p. 159)
- Exercise: choosing the right company culture (p. 165)
- Career options (p. 167)
- Making a drastic career change (p. 169)
- Researching your new career (p. 170)
- Exercise: gap analysis and action planning (p. 172)
- Final thoughts (p. 174)
- 11 Achieving what you want through networking (p. 177)
- Self-test: measuring your networking skills (p. 178)
- Analysing your network (p. 180)
- Setting your networking goals (p. 181)
- Preparing to network (p. 181)
- Maintaining your network (p. 184)
- 12 Figuring out your next employer (p. 187)
- Twenty questions to ask (p. 188)
- Meeting the team (p. 190)
- Opening your eyes and ears (p. 191)
- Making a decision (p. 192)
- Conclusion (p. 195)
- Index (p. 197)