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Amazon
Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: Get Smart! Publishing
ISBN-10: 0967470455
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 250
Copyright: Sep 1 2000
Get Smart! will empower you to make a career change, become an entrepreneur, and help you to successfully navigate through the 6 stage of modern career development.
Are you serious about creating your life’s work? If so, then leave behind all of your traditional ideas about work and Get Smart!
Reading this interactive LearningBook will energize your career by changing the way you think and feel about the modern world of work. Contrary to popular belief, creating your life’s work should not be left to fate. In fact, to increase your chances of choosing wisely, you need to utilize a practical, proactive, and smart approach to your career development.
Each Get Smart! Chapter is full of journaling assignments, reflection exercises, and case illustrations designed to raise your self awareness, enhance your intuition, and develop your decision-making skills—all of which will empower you to fulfill your career aspirations.
Get Smart! About:
Decision-Making
Work in the 21st Century
Reprogramming Yourself
Entrepreneurship
Living By Vision, Working With Purpose
Self-Marketing Tools
Getting in Touch With Your Spirit
The 6 Stages of Career Development
Excerpt
When it comes to modern career development, one thing we can all count on is change. With the advent of technology, telecommuting, and E-commerce, how work is performed is in a state of reinvention. Self-employment and small business development will become more the norm than big business. And career changes will be more frequent due to rapidly changing organizations and industries. Finally, the line between one’s personal and professional life will become even more blurred. Since the modern world of work is rapidly changing to keep up with the demands of our fast-paced lives and lifestyles, here are some characteristics of what the new work contract will look like:
§ Seeking more meaning from work.
§ Equating “career success” with personal satisfaction over paycheck or status.
§ Everyone will need their own “name-brand.”
§ Increased use of technology.
§ Finding work that needs doing.
§ Changing in the way management and leadership is conducted (less arrogance at the top level, more power on lower levels).
§ Increased need for networking and self-marketing.
§ Lifelong “trying on” of various roles, jobs, and industries.
§ Creating a plan that is flexible, and continually assessing the “fit” of the work.
§ Increased representation of women and minorities in the workforce.
§ Changing career fields numerous times in a lifetime.
§ Self-responsibility: Everyone knowing they have to chart their own career direction.
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