Targeting A Great Career

by Wendleton,Kate

• ISBN13: 9781418015046
• ISBN10: 1418015040
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-22
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning

Summary

Landing the job of your dreams means you need to have a dream to begin with. Targeting a Great Career helps you identify that dream . . . make it specific . . . and figure out step by step how you can achieve it. Kate Wendleton and The Five O'Clock Club have already helped tens of thousands of job hunters across the country discover what they re best at, what they love doing, and how they can turn their vision into reality. Exercises throughout the book allow readers to picture what they want their life to be like in the future and what they can do today to make their dreams come true. The celebrated Five O'Clock Club method involves work ... lots of work. And much of that work is research - research on the lnternet into the areas you have targeted; Targeting a Great Career is filled with strategies and tips that can help you achieve your goals.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
PART ONE The Changing Job Market: How It Works Today (If You Are in a Hurry to Do the Exercises, Go to Part Two.)
You and the New Job Market	3	(5)
How to Change Careers	8	(3)
Job Hunting versus Career Planning	11	(6)
Targeting the Jobs of the Future	17	(7)
Learning to Track Trends and Move into a New Market	24	(5)
Case Studies: Targeting the Future	29	(5)
What Longevity Means to Your Career	34	(7)
PART TWO Deciding What You Want: Start by Understanding Yourself (If You are Already in a Field You Love and Know Why, and Where You're Going, Go to Part Four.)
How to Find Your Place in the World	41	(6)
How to Decide What You Want	47	(2)
Deciding What You Want: Selecting Your Job Targets	49	(5)
Exercises to Analyze Your Past and Present: The Seven Stories Exercise	54	(45)
The Seven Stories Exercise Worksheet	59	(5)
Your Current Work-Related Values	64	(1)
Other Exercises: Interests, Satisfiers, and Bosses	65	(1)
Your Special Interests	66	(1)
Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers in Past Jobs	67	(1)
Your Relationship with Bosses	68	(1)
Looking into Your Future	69	(2)
Your Fifteen-Year Vision and Your Forty-Year Vision	71	(4)
Your Forty-Year Vision . . . Fifteen Years Is a Good Start	75	(3)
The Ideal Scene	78	(5)
My Ideal Job	83	(3)
My Ideal Work Environment	86	(4)
Case Study: Howard---Developing a Vision	90	(4)
Self--Assessment Summary	94	(1)
Take a Breather	95	(4)
PART THREE How to Select Your Job Targets: Brainstorming Possible Jobs
Brainstorming Possible Jobs	99	(12)
Chiron: Finding a Future	102	(9)
Having a Balanced Life	111	(3)
What You Can Do in Your Present Situation	114	(1)
Life Takes Time	115	(2)
How to Decide What You Want to Offer	117	(4)
How to Target the Job You Want	121	(8)
Target Selection	127	(1)
Measuring Your Targets	128	(1)
Preliminary Target Investigation: Jobs/Industries Worth Exploring	129	(2)
Targeting: The Start of an Organized Search	131	(2)
Ready for the Next Step	133	(2)
Researching Your Job Targets	135	(10)
Sample Personal Marketing Plan	141	(4)
PART FOUR How to Manage Your Future
New Shapes in Careers: How to Repackage the Work You Want to Do	145	(4)
A Reminder of Some Basic Career Principles	149	(2)
How to Keep Your Life Course in Mind	151	(4)
Congratulations!	155	(4)
PART FIVE The Five O'Clock Club Approach to Job Search
An Overview of The Five O'Clock Club Process	159	(9)
Getting Lots of Meetings	168	(5)
Job-Search Campaign Management	173	(10)
The Stages of Your Search	183	(8)
PART SIX What Is The Five O'Clock Club?
How to Join the Club	191	(4)
Questions You May Have about the Weekly Job-Search Strategy Group	195	(4)
When Your Employer Pays	199	(3)
The Way We Are	202	(1)
Lexicon Used at the Five O'Clock Club	203	(4)
Membership Application	207	(2)
Index	209