Product Description

Addressing employee needs that have resulted from current trends in downsizing, competition, and refocusing career paths, a job-seeker's guide focuses on the individual as opposed to the job, applying a holistic approach to finding compatible positions. Original. Tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #871313 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From the Back Cover
THREE STEPS TO BECOMING YOUR OWN CAREER COUNSELOR

An interactive, in-depth guidebook based on the career design workshops run by Crystal-Barkley, TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR CAREER turns the traditional job search on its head-by focusing on the individual, not the position-to give job seekers and practical dreamers the tools they need to find careers that are meaningful, well-paying, and secure.

Step 1: Who Am I?

What your life story has to do with a job. Uncovering over-looked skills. Determining the values that are most important to you. Learning to talk about yourself.

Step 2: Where Am I Going?

Reading life's compass. Visualizing a career. Establishing the direction you want to go in. Goals, and how to set them.

Step 3: How Do I Get There?

Assembling a plan of action. Surveying a potential workplace. Making effective introductions. A negotiation primer. Closing the deal.

Nella Barkley co-founded the Crystal-Barkley Corporation with John C. Crystal, who was the major contributor to Richard Nelson Bolle's What Color Is Your Parachute? She also provides management training to AT&T, General Motors, IBM, and other corporations and institutions.

Eric Sandburg, a former business professor, is president of Career Design Software, which brings the Crystal-Barkley process to the home computer.

About the Author
President of the Crystal-Barkley Corporation of New York (with offices in Chicago and Los Angeles), Nella Barkley is one of the foremost career consultants in the country.

Eric Sandburg, a former business professor, is president of Career Design Software, which brings the Crystal-Barkley process to the home computer.

Customer Reviews

Extremely Useful
I bought this book to help myself answer the question "am I in the right job?" The Crystal-Barkely methodology was time-consuming, yet easy to follow and helped me learn new things about myself. I used the results to realign myself within my company and focus on areas that play to my strengths.

THE guide to 'how to change' your life and work
This is a simple, practical, realistic approach to examining your experiences, determining your values and defining how to move forward with a life and work change. Many books discuss it, this one tells you how to do it. Don't be deceived by it's size: this is chock full of advice.

Refreshing creative comprehensive practical step by step pln
Seeing yourself differently in very specific ways, and valuing that uniquiness seems to be the first practical step toward ultimately differentiating if not distinquishing yourself. Exploring and eventually commiting to what you care about personally as well as potentially professionally, confidently communicating how you will use your most preferred skills to best meet those needs of your selected "partners" is empowering and energizing. Important points are humorously supported by cartoonist Sam Gross.