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Managing Your Career in a Changing Workplace
by Jane Ballback and Jan S. Slater
Published 23 April 1998
This manual is designed to ensure successful career transitions. It contains information on developing a career action plan and advice on how to determine whether a major or minor career shift will be most successful, along with ideas and examples of people who have changed career.
Theorizing that people have to market themselves in order to survive in the workplace, this book shows readers how to develop techniques to be in the right place at the right time. It also promotes a positive attitude, and demonstrates how to use verbal communication to increase visibility.
Adopting the principle that it is often difficult for people to take a step back from work in order to look closely at whether they are really following the career path that best suits them, this book is designed to help readers assess what may be their ideal career. Included in the text are numerous case studies, and the authors put forward and analyze five factors which they suggest make for a rewarding personal lifeplan: understanding personal motivation; finding a work environment that fits; discovering if you want to work with people, data or things; uncovering skills; and deciding monetary needs and expectations.