Books : I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9780142002483
ISBN: 0142002488
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: January 28, 2003
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 10595

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A disturbingly large number of people today are unhappy with their work. In this helpful book, career coach Julie Jansen addresses this work-dissatisfaction epidemic. Using career assessment quizzes and personality exercises, Jansen helps readers understand their present work or career situation, discover the type of work for which they're best suited, and learn how to create the changes they need. Filled with real-life examples and including a useful resource section, this guide provides the inspiration and know-how to implement positive career change.

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- Finding the career you love
This is a great book for anyone considering a career change but doesn't quite know where to begin or how to decide what they want to be when they grow up. The book is filled with various self-assessments to help the reader determine particular strengths or interests. It begins by assessing where you are now and looking at where you would like to be. Next, the book moves on to how to get to where you want to be by using the self-assessments and offers the "keys" to success. The self-assessments ... Read More

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- MAKING LIFE EASIER FOR JOB HUNTERS
The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One This book, even the title alone!, is a great comfort for those of us who find it easier to say what we don't want to do than to identify the next right position for us. And if you're like me and have lots of different interests, any five of which might sound just fine today as long as we can pick five more tomorrow, the job of identification can be even harder. It's great to have the support of a book like Jansen's ... Read More

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- I Don't Know What I Want But I Know It's Not This
This is a concisely written career book that doesn't waste your time and invites you in even for scary stuff like self-assessment. If you believe that 'real jobs' have not lived up to their promise, you should check out this book. Also, the author, Julie Jansen, is highly responsive to email questions and sincere about helping those of us seeking something more than a paycheck.

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- Realistic.
This book gets into the "meat and potatoes" of career development. I encourage anyone who is "lost" to read this and start doing what it takes to find a realistic, economically sound, and FUN job! They do exist...I found one.

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- Find Yourself First
A book like this is as good as the reader. In order to find one self one must look inward and that takes a little work, maybe even more than a little. Julie Jansen's book is a great help in helping the reader start that search and she then guides the reader to the direction he or she must take. Does the book guarantee a new career? No, I don't think so but if the reader works at it, it can come.It probably will. Julie Jansen's Guide is as good as a book like this can get. It is then up to the reader to ... Read More

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