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Your Career, Your Life - Career Management for the Information Professional (Paperback, New edition)
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Your Career, Your Life - Career Management for the Information Professional (Paperback, New edition)
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Career development must be based on an understanding both of the
working context and of one's own personal needs. This forms the
basis of guidance given in this book, which includes contributions
from three other specialists in career management and
organizational dynamics. Your Career, Your Life begins by exploring
what work offers the individual, reasons why we do it, positive and
negative experiences and the effects of personal and external
drivers. The author then looks closely at the individual's
relationship with the employer organization and at global,
particularly technological, trends in the information world,
explaining how to assess career satisfaction and choose techniques
for getting 'unstuck'. A variety of support and self-assessment
processes (such as shadowing, mentoring, performance monitoring,
psychometric testing) are presented to progress the reader towards
actively managing choices and making moves. The author guides us
through the different stages of the job search and application
process, suggesting self-development and learning methods for
defining career needs, whether full time, freelance or part time,
as well as ways of assessing competencies and attributes in
relation to the job market. In the second part of this book Angela
Abell focuses on changing employer needs, 'the knowledge economy'
and the future profile and skills of information professionals.
Rossana Kendall, quoting numerous examples, offers empowering tools
for creating space to think positively, for developing constructive
dialogues and so managing negativity and change. She explores the
underlying factors governing how we handle change and the other
complexities of work and life, and their implications for careers.
In the final chapter differing attitudes to change are explored by
Liz Roberts, with particular emphasis on senior management roles,
and the challenges and rewards they, or the option of downshifting,
can bring. A series of case studies highlights di
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