Turn Your Dream Job
into Your Real Job
“Instead of hiring a career coach—buy this book.
Make the Right Career Move
is a wonderful guide for the
new age professional. This book will help you execute
one of the most important decisions in your life and
includes practical tips that you will use for the rest
of your career.”
Marshall Goldsmith
Best-selling author of
The Leader of the Future and
What Got You Here Won't Get You There!
“This great new book by Shelley Canter will help
thousands of business people find not only a new job,
but a satisfying career. This book is filled with
practical tools and exercises that will help the reader
identify what they really want from their career,
how to write a winning resume, and most important
of all, how to position yourself for the job.”
Victoria Husted Medvec,
Adeline Davee Barry Professor of
Management and Organizations at
Northwestern University's Kellogg
School of Management and
Executive Director of the Center for Executive Women
“In my many years working in the career field, here is
the first book that guides attorneys and executives on
how to
Make The Right Career Move
to their next job,
career, or board position. It's action-oriented, quick
to read, and it's not bogged down with theory.
It provides tested, practical tools to help readers
get their dream job.”
Martha Fay Africa,
Managing Director & Co-Founder,
Major, Lindsey & Africa
Make the Right Career Move
teaches the skills, tools,
and branding to make all the right career moves,
whether your focus is finding a new job, moving up to
a better job, or making your current job better. It
makes job search and self-promotion smarter, helping
readers land their dream job and realize the benefits
of a better job faster. It's a career guide that belongs
in the hand of every executive, attorney or
professional — or any ambitious job-seeker, from new
graduates to senior executives.
This book offers a streamlined approach to your job
search and career moves by offering tested short-cuts,
tips, and secrets on how to create your brand,
how to develop a job search plan, how to create a
winning resume, and how to turn your existing contacts
into a powerful network.
By emphasizing branding and positioning in job search
strategy, and the critical career management and
promotional tools of competitive advantages,
resumes and interviews,
Make the Right Career Move
shows the reader how to beat the competition for the
best jobs.
Sample chapters available here.
Chapter one:
Stage One - Imagine Career Possibilities.
Secret: The major obstacle to your dream job is in your head.
Chapter two:
Stage One - Three Executive Obstacles to Job Search
Secret: The very executive habits that create work success
can spell job search failure.
Chapter three:
Stage One - Career Satisfaction: The Elusive and
Essential Ingredient of the Right Move
Secret: The right move is not necessarily “up.”
Chapter eight:
Stage Two - Three Approaches to Accomplishments
Secret: A triage approach will generate the best set
of accomplishments.
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