Get A Better Job

Understand your talents and learn to win in an uncertain job market.

Is this the right book for me?

The current world of work is tough whether you are looking for work or just looking to make better life choices. Things are changing fast and the 'job for life' is a long forgotten myth. This book, perceptively written and full of practical advice, tells you exactly how to become a hot property in the competitive job market. Filled with self-check questions, exercises and case studies it will help you to understand yourself and improve your chance of a fulfilling career.

Written to appeal to the broadest spectrum of readers, it will prove invaluable whether you are starting out on your career, returning to work, looking to change direction or coping with redundancy or early retirement. Learn to understand your motivations, grow confident in what you have to offer and go get that job!

Get a Better Job includes:

Chapter 1: Moving from employment to employability
Understanding how these changes are affecting you
Understanding the future work
What is a job?
The decline and fall of the job
What has happened to make job certainty disappear?
Restructuring the workplace in the twenty-first century
Facing up to the issues
Self-check questions
Case studies

Chapter 2: Getting to know yourself - what you are
Charting progress
Identifying those who have influenced you
Identifying what you do
Maintaining your employability
Being a rounded person
Rating your confidence in your employability
Case studies

Chapter 3: Getting to know yourself - who you are
Starting to feel comfortable with being you
Life-mapping
Identifying your needs and desires
How will you be remembered?
My epitaph
Case studies

Chapter 4: Motivation at work
What motivates me?
Elton Mayo - acknowledging the human element
Abraham Maslow - satisfying inbuilt needs
Clayton Alderfer - levels of need
Douglas McGregor - alternative ways of managing people
Frederick Herzberg - identifying the sources of motivation and demotivation
How motivating employees can rescue the industry
Case studies

Chapter 5: Understanding what you have to offer
Understanding what employers seek
Developing your transferable skills
Identifying your transferable skills
Becoming a SWOT
Devising your own SWOT
Describing yourself
Case studies

Chapter 6: Developing your skills
Offering more than qualifications and experience
Communicating...read more...