We Work!: Move Your Career Plan from Confusion to Clarity with The Implicit Career Search

by Steve Miller

‘We Work!’ is a how-to manual for those who want to align their careers and lives with a sense of purpose. It delivers a practical, in-depth, step-by-step approach to defining one’s work purpose including a straightforward planning process to develop that purpose into a successful career. By including insights and experiences from others who have taken this journey ‘We Work’ is a complete yet concise guide to career fulfillment.
‘We Work!’ is a book derived from The Implicit Career Search (ICS) workshop and is based on the incredibly powerful results from the thousands of people who have participated in this program that has been changing the way career decision making and development is being viewed throughout North America and Europe.
The author. Steve Miller, has based his life’s work, and this book, on two basic
1.We each have something unique to contribute
2.Each of us desparately wants to deliver that contribution
Miller provides a strong argument for the first decision in career planning to be “How will my work make the world a better place?” ‘We Work!’ provides readers with plenty of tools and personal insights to help them achieve success while making this contribution.
This is a heroic journey approach to career decision making and planning that is being especially embraced by millennials across North America and Europe as they find inspiration and hope in the concept of first defining the reason for work before beginning it. The realization that they each have something of value to contribute provides the motivation and energy to excel at all steps along the way, whether that be schooling, training, or entry level jobs.
At the other end of the age spectrum, retirees find this approach rejuvenates their lives, allowing them to take more control of what it is they want to contribute in the next stage of their life.
The Implicit Career Search approach has proven effective with all ages, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds.
It is rare for an ICS workshop to end without at least one participant asking, “Why did someone not tell me this earlier? This would have saved me a lot of time, money and anguish!”
The first eight chapters are designed to help you complete the plan presented in the ninth and final chapter and the author exhorts you to get out there and start working on purpose, no navel gazing, no sitting around waiting to get the 'right' purpose or to find your self. You have a purpose now, your work is to define and deliver it, whether that be as a neurosurgeon, cab driver, hairdresser, politician…choose a vehicle to deliver that purpose from and get your career to the level where nobody does what you do as well as you.
Read this book and learn how to plan your career with clarity and simplicity.

84 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2017

About the author

Steve was the founding curator of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Albin O. Kuhn Library's Science Fiction Research Collection and a former Nebula juror. Steve enjoys music, plays tournament chess, and collects cat whiskers.

Steve Miller and his wife, Sharon Lee, live in the rolling hills of Central Maine with two insistent muses in the form of cats and a large cast of characters. The husband-and-wife team's collaborative work in science fiction and fantasy include seventeen novels and numerous short stories in their award-winning Liaden Universe®. In addition to their collaborative work, Steve has seen short stories, nonfiction, and reviews published under his name, while Sharon has seen published short stories, newspaper pieces, and two mystery novels.