How To Get The Perfect Promotion - A Practical Guide To Improving Your Career Prospects
Published on 16. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-07-710426-9 (ISBN)
Description
"How to Get the Perfect Promotion" is a realistic guide to developing the best career strategy for you. Building on the success of John Lees' best selling title "How to Get a Job You'll Love", this new book will help you to get to the top of your chosen career path. Drawing on the experience of high performers, it looks at how to: position yourself for promotion, overcome mental and physical barriers, make office politics work to your advantage, and negotiate a pay rise.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-710426-9 (9780077104269)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
John Lees is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) and Fellow of the Recruitement & Employment Confederation (FREC).
Content
1. Making your career work for you Dealing with barriers to success. What gets in the way? Rethinking your idea of a career. Applying lateral thinking to career development. 2. Insider Information - how others trod this path before you. What makes career success? How do people achieve above-average career progression? Life stories, examples. 3. What do you mean by success? Defining real goals. Thinking long term. Goal-setting exercise. Moving on or up? The Learning curve. Work Cycles. 4. Solving employer's problems Learning to see work from an employer's perspective. KRAs in a job. What identifies you as useful. The changing psychological contract. 5. The DIY career coach kit How to conduct your own career review. Building on your strengths. Putting a portfolio together. Your 10-point plan for career success. 6. Self-Marketing guide How Others See You. How to communicate your strengths and achievements. How to be visible. Rethinking appraisals. 7. Survive and thrive political awareness. Avoiding redundancy. Being active rather than passive. Fitting work into life: Life/Work balance exercise. 8. Cutting a great deal Getting promoted. Negotiating a pay rise. Moving on or up? Rethinking appraisals. 9. Upward, ever upward Why people get promoted beyond their competence and confidence. Spotting career traps, Maintaining perspective. 10. Stocking your lifeboat, and jumping ship Knowing when it's time to move out. Preparing yourself for career transition Pre-jump networking. 11. Making your mark in a new job Appx Useful Web Sites/Supporting Material