Why Career Advice Sucks™: Join Generation Flux & Build an Agile, Flexible, Adaptable, & Resilient Career

by Miles Anthony Smith, Matthew Wolf (Editor)

Whether you or someone you know is in college or just starting out, gainfully employed (and concerned about career ambiguity), underemployed, or have been downsized, rightsized, laid off, fired, cast off, or otherwise in career transition, Becoming Generation Flux is for you. Perhaps you are lost, hopeless, or angry. You might feel alone, cheated, ripped off, or not sure what to do next. Or maybe you are curious to understand the massive shift in the job hunting market currently rippling through the career transition landscape. Miles will guide you on a job search journey to understand the past, confront the career development present, and conquer future career success. You will learn why traditional career planning is dead, how to become agile, adapt to ambiguity, and develop resilience no matter what the job change market throws your way.

The book is divided into the following four parts:

Part 1: Lies, Damned Lies: Historical Context
Part 2: Stop The Education Madness!
Part 3: Embrace Becoming Generation Flux
Part 4: Hope in the Job Seeking Trenches

To discover why the job market is seemingly in chaos and learn practical action steps to navigate your career journey, get Becoming Generation Flux now.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business, Ebooks

158 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 30, 2014

About the author

Miles is a keynote speaker, author, and technology leader who helps organizations generate and nurture leads with advanced inbound marketing strategies.

You may have seen him on Search Engine Watch, Neil Patel, Robbie Richards, Growth Hackers, Mailup, Hubstaff, Digital Olympus, RevContent, Albacross, or Lead Generation Institute. Raised in Oklahoma, and living in Green Bay, he graduated from Oklahoma State with an MBA degree.

During his entrepreneurial career, he has successfully led marketing and lead generation campaigns for Forbes 100 companies and created digital marketing course curriculum for Rasmussen University.

Unlike other experts on digital marketing and technology, Miles is a true practitioner, having been in the trenches of running thousands of marketing campaigns and has the case study data from clients to back it up. With Miles‘s versatile background, he speaks about Why Stuff Sucks™.

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Change is stressful, but it's inherent part of our lives. Becoming Generation Flux will teach you how to cope with this stress and even embrace it in times when traditional career planing is dead. You'll learn how the job marked changed in the last decades, whether formal educations is still important, how to handle stress of career shifting, and how to become agile.

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Disclosure: I've received a free copy of this book in exchange for writing a review.

[Anne Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent resource for leaders in organizations hiring millenials. It provided me with insight into the mindset of our newer hires and why the average life span of employees has dwindled to 3 years. I have highlighted and discussed the book with our Office Manager. The style is easy to read and quotes are appropriate to the material presented. I would recommend if purchasing in e-book you will want to read on a Fire or similar device to benefit from the charts and graphs provided.

[Liza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very insightful. I even took notes.

The sad part about the job search game is that the interviewee has to "love" the company that they are interviewing for a job for. Research the company and come up with an interest you probably don't have in order to "wow" the interviewer.

To show what you can do for the company, other than fulfill the need that they wanted to fill. Tiring.

[Caroline Kelemen · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a lot of ideas in this book. It starts off a bit slow, but by the end, I was really engrossed. As a soon to be graduate still seeking a job, there are a lot of things I'm keen to try. I'd recommend this book to anyone looking for a job.

[Stella · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very relevant.
Lots of useful tips.

[Shiela]

Why Career Advice Sucks: by Miles Anthony Smith is a great read. It give excellent advice for both the new/ soon to be graduated student and the unemployed/employed person seeking employment and / or simply a career change. As the job market is ever changing and becoming more difficult it helps to have some specific direction to take in preparing for the job search experience. While his approach to school and student loans is a little on the depressing side. To think that our educations usefulness with run out before we pay off our loans is truly sad. He includes topics such as job versus career choices, wages, retirement and self-employment. I would recommend this book to anyone seeking new employment for any reason. Its a good over-view of how our work-force/ career seeking situation. He gives practical steps that will hopefully help keep the frustration levels down. Its worth your time to read this one.