Career Reboot
Praise for John Lees Work and Careers Books
John Lees is one of the grand masters in the burgeoning field of careers coaching. His practical yet inspiring approach helps people not only to make the right career decisions but to work out how they can live their lives to the full, and with meaning.
Liz Hall, Editor, Coaching at Work
John Lees is brilliant at creating the kind of mind shift we all need to see ourselves and our work in a way that lets us transform both.
Maureen Rice, Editor, Psychologies
I know first hand the joy that being in the right career can bring and I commend John Lees for his books and seminars which help other people do just that.
Rosemary Conley CBE
John Lees work is both inspirational and motivational, urging you to constantly think outside the box. He challenges you to lose the excuses and to take managing your career into your own hands.
Sarah Kenyon, Career Development Specialist, Orange
John Lees inspires people to rethink the way they work.
Daily Express
You can always rely on John Lees to come up with helpful, practical advice that is both accessible and effective.
Terry Gibson, Editor of AMED Organisations & People
Always practical, but never patronising.
The Guardian
I love Johns straight-up approach. Theres nothing airy-fairy about the career advice in his books and yet the tone holds your interest, not the usual dry-as-a-bone business book banter. What I love most is that its real-life, real-world stuff: first he guides you to making your own career decisions with passion and instinct but then he gives professional, realistic and very grown up advice about making those decisions happen. I can still remember reading How to Get a Job Youll Love as a young journalist fresh off the boat from Oz with zilch industry contacts. Now I am in my dream job Johns advice works, pure and simple.
Anna Magee, Health Editor, RED
Praise for How to Get a Job Youll Love
A jewel of a book to help even the most luckless and career-panicked. A must-read for everyone who wants work to be more than 9-to-5 drudgery.
Management Today
No matter how many barriers real or imagined are currently preventing you making the career change you know you need, this book will help you demolish them more effectively than a wrecking ball. Johns books are thought-provoking, stimulating, challenging and a pleasure to read and this is no exception. It could well change your life.
Steve Crabb, Editor, People Management
Career Reboot
24 tips for tough times
JOHN LEES
Career Reboot
John Lees
ISBN 13: 978-0-07-712758-9
ISBN 10: 0-07-712758-7
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About the author
John Lees is one of the UKs best known career coaches and authors. How To Get A Job Youll Love has twice been WH Smiths Business Book of the Month, and regularly tops the list as the best-selling careers book by a British author.
John specialises in helping people make difficult career decisions - difficult because they dont know what to do next, or because there are barriers in the way of success. He has delivered workshops in the USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and regularly speaks at UK events (Forum3, One Life Live) and has also featured as a speaker at the worlds largest international career conferences in the USA.
He writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian, and has a regular column in People Management. His work has been featured on the Channel 4 Dispatches programme and in the BBC Interactive Back to Work programme, and he regularly provides insights into the world of work on radio and in publications including Management Today, The Sunday Times, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Psychologies, Eve and She.
John is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge, London and Liverpool and has spent most of his career focusing on the world of work. He has trained recruitment specialists since the mid-1980s, and is the former Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (now the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, REC). He now runs a careers consultancy in the North West of the UK.
John Lees Associates provides one-to-one career coaching in most parts of the UK. For details email info@johnleescareers.com or visit www.johnleescareers.com.
How this book will help you
This book is designed to help you get out of a hole, quickly, if youre career-panicked, especially if youre coping with redundancy. All the chapters in ) provides some longer-term strategies and thinking.
1
Get a grip focus on whats working, not what isnt
Y ou may be reading this book because your job faces an uncertain future, or youve been made redundant. Youre worried about finding something else youre job hunting and youve had disappointing results.
Its easy to be confused by recruiter feedback or put off by rejection. Worse still, you may have been panicked into feeling that nothing will work.
Before you take another step, focus on whats working, not whats going wrong. How many of the roles you have applied for have been centre target? Random applications for roles where youre unlikely to get shortlisted often result in rejection, and unless youre careful this can lead to a loss of confidence. Its pointless considering wild shots as failures. Concentrate on the results you achieve applying for jobs you want and might get.
Trainee pilots are taught to face emergencies by not putting their focus on what is broken, but on whatever is still working enough to get you safely on the ground. Looking just at the downside of job search will ultimately drag down your performance. Look carefully at the results you are getting from your job search. Where have you received genuine feedback? What needs fixing?