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Effective Career Development: Advice for Establishing an Enjoyable Career
The book includes exercises and activities to help you understand what is important to you in a job and how to attain your career goals. By reading this book, you’ll be able to assess the advantages and disadvantages of different career paths and set clear career development goals.
1 pages, Paperback
Published August 30, 2022
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April 22, 2023
📕 Why (Not) to read this book (Target Audience)
This is a short book that introduces the concept of "Project Careers".
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
Rather than corporate careers, many people today have ‘project careers’. This often means moving from one industry sector to another and doing a variety of roles with various time and place commitments.
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
Now the ‘new normal’ is to have multiple career paths with the focus on personal fulfilment and advancement rather than climbing the career ladder. A CIPD report from 2022, “Wellbeing at work”, found that job satisfaction and work–life balance are the most important factors to people when thinking about their working lives.
"IDENTIFYING YOUR PERSONAL VALUES"
"RECOGNISING YOUR STRENGTHS"
This is a short book that introduces the concept of "Project Careers".
👀 How this book changed my daily live (Takeaways)
Rather than corporate careers, many people today have ‘project careers’. This often means moving from one industry sector to another and doing a variety of roles with various time and place commitments.
⁉ Spoiler Alerts (Highlights)
Now the ‘new normal’ is to have multiple career paths with the focus on personal fulfilment and advancement rather than climbing the career ladder. A CIPD report from 2022, “Wellbeing at work”, found that job satisfaction and work–life balance are the most important factors to people when thinking about their working lives.
"IDENTIFYING YOUR PERSONAL VALUES"
"RECOGNISING YOUR STRENGTHS"
November 24, 2025
Items of Note:
* Our career choices take place within the context of society, the economy and our social setting. Each generation grows up in a different context and, as a result, tends to have different work expectations.
* It's relatively easy to update our technical skills with training, but developing our softer skills requires insight into who we are, changing our behaviours and adapting to new roles.
* To know where you want to go, you need to know where you come from.
* Our career choices take place within the context of society, the economy and our social setting. Each generation grows up in a different context and, as a result, tends to have different work expectations.
* It's relatively easy to update our technical skills with training, but developing our softer skills requires insight into who we are, changing our behaviours and adapting to new roles.
* To know where you want to go, you need to know where you come from.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews