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Mid-Life Career Rescue Job Search Strategies That Work: How to Confidently Leave a Job You Hate and Start Living a Life You Love, Before It’s Too Late
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by Cassandra Gaisford, 240 pages, published Apr 29, 2018
Amazon's Description:
Midlife Crisis? Practical, inspiring and empowering tips and strategies every job hunter and career changer needs to know
From the best-selling author of "How to Find Your Passion and Purpose": a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about career change, overcoming obstacles and finding the job or career you really want.
In Mid-Life Career Rescue Job Search Strategies That Work, holistic psychologist and international career coach, Cassandra Gaisford (BCA, Dip. Psych), has written a passionate call to redefine what it means to be happy and successful in today’s world.
When you're a mature worker and you find yourself in a position where you have to look for work, age bias can be a factor, but it doesn't have to be a barrier. Although some employers might look for young, less mature hires, older workers have lots to offer, as many smart organizations realize. Successfully finding a job takes skill and confidence, but once you know the rules, you’ll feel more confident, more successful and a whole lot happier.
To increase your chances of getting the job you really want, this book will help you:
•Beat “age bias”
•Increase your awareness of the importance of self-marketing
•Highlight the appropriate attitudes, styles and behaviors that you need to market your skills successfully
•Prepare you to use a variety of job search strategies, including: Using recruitment agencies effectively; Responding to direct advertizing, including newspaper and Internet mediums; Outline the steps to successful networking; Provide strategies that will help maintain a positive outlook
•Accelerate your job hunting success
Some people find job hunting very challenging. Perhaps years of conditioning that you should be seen and not heard, acute shyness or lack of practice and experience in the art of self-promotion may be affecting you.
In Mid-Life Career Rescue Job Search Strategies That Work you will also discover how to:
•Harness the law of attraction by focusing on areas of passion and purpose
•Tap into the hidden job market
•Let people know what you have to offer confidently
•Overcome stress and doubt
•Boost confidence, courage and self-esteem
•Help you find and get the job or career you want
Whether you love the idea of the 4-hour workweek, want to find a job that reflects who you are and what's important to you, or thinking about starting a business, career change after 50 and finding a new job can be yours.
As Richard N Bolles, author of 'What Colour Is Your Parachute', once said to me, “sometimes all it takes is one book, one sentence to transform your life.”
Quit feeling trapped. Reclaim your power! Find a job you love and finally live the life you want. Scroll up and click "Buy Now” before it’s too late.
The strategies in this book will also help job-hunters in their 20s, 30s or 40s successfully change careers.
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