What to Do With the Rest of Your Life: America’s Top Career Coach Shows You How to Find or Create the Job You’ll Love
Robin Ryan
ISBN 0-7432-2450-7
In the preface, Robin Ryan write that she has worked with thousands of clients during her years as a career coach and she saw them experience a lot of circumstances or reasons for wanting things better.
The contents of this book are:
Part 1 Figuring It Out
Chapter 1 Define your passion
Why change?
The hottest, fastest growing career fields
Our identities and our careers
Chapter 2 Identify your best skills, values, and interests
Skills identification
Values assessment
Blending your career with a family
Interests
Creating your professional profile and new direction
Chapter 3 Determine your ideal job and workplace
Is business ownership for you?
Your future
Define your ideal job look before you leap
Putting it all together
Career killers to avoid
Part 2 Moving On
Chapter 4 Hire me—strategic ways to land a great job
Know where to look
Job-hunting strategies
Tapping into the hidden job market
Is a company’s culture the right fit for you?
Relocation—how to find a job when you tag along
Summary
Chapter 5 Launching a business
Key mistakes to avoid in running a business
Start-up options
How to start a business while you still work full-time
Turn a hobby into a career
Where does the start-up money come from?
Running a business
Now it’s your turn
Chapter 6 Getting paid well for what you do
Salary negotiations
Why women are still paid less than men
Determine your competitive salary worth
Conclusion
Part 3 Staying Put
Chapter 7 CEOS and top executives reveal how to get promoted
Survey results
Technical competence and more
Network…network…network
CEOS reveal what it takes to get to the top
Increase your competitive advantage with these tools
Moving into management
When the best way to get ahead is to move on
Making the most of your current job
Summary
Chapter 8 Get that raise!
Worst ways of asking for a raise
Where the biggest raises come from
The secrets for getting that raise
When the answer is no
Chapter 9 Moving your business to the next level
Getting business to come to you
More effective marketing strategies
On becoming an authority
Make money off your website
Publicity—how to get your name in the news
Free up time to make more
Strategies for setting business fees and prices for products or services
Learn business skills from business experts
Summary
Part 4 Conclusion: Go for It!
