Table of Contents

1: What Happened To My Career?
2: What’s the Problem?
3: Where Next After Finishing Your Studies?
4: Thinking Around Corners
5: Your Career Hot Buttons
6: Your House of Knowledge
7: What Do You Have to Offer?
8: Who are you?
9: What Kind of Work would suit you best?
10: What about a Complete Change of Career?
11: Creative Job Search Strategies
12: Can I find a job using social media?
13: Interviews and How to Survive Them
14: How to Love the Job You’ve Got
15: Portfolio Careers and Beyond
16: Beginning it Here
17: Key Checklists
Appendices
1: Informational Interviews - The REVEAL Method
2: People Who Have Transformed Their Careers
3: Useful Websites

About the Author

John Lees has been involved in the training and developing of recruitment specialists since the mid 1980s, from both public and private sectors. He undertook an advisory role to the RN careers service, and has provided help for Army personnel beginning civilian careers. He was Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (IEC) until 1993 when he left to become a Director of TGA, an employment research and careers advisory company. In 1999 he decided to go it alone and now runs his own human resources consultancy, specialising in career management and developing new tools to help with difficult career change decisions. John writes and speaks widely, and amongst his regular commitments acts as an online careers guru for lifebyte.com. John is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and Fellow of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (FREC).