Career Reboot - Tapa blanda

This book encourages you to break out of a rut and start to make things happen in your career. Packed with practical tips for rejuvenating your career, this book is a must for anyone striking out into a difficult job market after redundancy or simply looking for new opportunities in tough times.

This book is designed to help you get out of a hole if you’re career-panicked, especially if you’re coping with redundancy. Section 1 – Taking Stock checks your thinking before you throw yourself into job search mode. Section 2 – Planning Your Strategy gives you insights into the way the market works and the way recruiters and employers react to the different behaviours adopted by job seekers. Section 3 – Your Message To The Marketplace provides a series of checklists to show you how to sell yourself on paper, including the reason why so many CVs and cover letters fail, and Section 4 – Interview Secrets reveals how to make an impact in the final stages of the selection process. Finally Section 5 – Looking Forward provides some longer-term career strategies.

John specialises in helping people make difficult career decisions – difficult because they don’t know what to do next, or because there are barriers in the way of success. He has delivered workshops in the USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and regularly speaks at UK events (Forum3, One Life Live) and has also featured as a speaker at the world’s largest international career conferences in the USA.

He writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian and has a regular column in People Management. His work has been featured on Channel 4's ‘Dispatches’ and on BBC 2's Working Lunch and he regularly provides insights into the world of work on radio and in a publications including Management Today, The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Psychologies, Eve and She.

John is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge, London and Liverpool and has spent most of his career focusing on the world of work. He has trained recruitment specialists since the mid-1980s and is the former Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (now the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, REC). He now runs a careers consultancy in the North West of the UK.

John Lees Associates provides one-to-one career coaching in most parts of the UK. For details visit www.johnleescareers.com.