Job Hunting and Career Change All-In-One For Dummies
By Kate Burton, Joyce Lain Kennedy, Malcolm Kushner, Jeni Mumford, Brinley Platts, Romilla Ready, and Steve Shipside
Edited by Dr Rob Yeung
Job Hunting & Career Change All-in-One For Dummies
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About the Authors
Dr Rob Yeung is a director at business psychology consultancy Talentspace. He is often asked to coach teams and individuals on presentation skills in particular on developing their presence and charisma when presenting. He travels extensively around the world, running workshops, participating in panel discussions, and giving presentations to audiences of up to many hundreds of people at a time.
He has written for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, and Financial Times and has contributed to publications ranging from Mens Health and New Woman to Accountancy and the Sunday Times. He has published twelve other books on career and management topics including, in 2006, The Rules of Office Politics and The Rules of EQ (Cyan/Marshall Cavendish) and Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies (Wiley).
He is often seen on television including CNN and Channel 4s Big Brothers Little Brother. He is also the presenter of the highly acclaimed BBC television series How To Get Your Dream Job. A chartered psychologist of the British Psychological Society with a PhD in psychology from the University of London, he has also lectured at a number of business schools and universities.
Need one of the UKs leading psychologists to work with you, your team or your organisation? Drop Dr Rob an email at rob@talentspace.co.uk or visit www.talentspace.co.uk.
Kate Burton is an independent executive coach, author, and trainer who enables individuals and organisations to focus their energy with confidence. She is co-author of the best-selling Neuro-linguistic Programming For Dummies with Romilla Ready. Her business career began in corporate advertising and marketing with Hewlett-Packard. Since then she has worked with varied businesses across industries and cultures on how they can be great and confident communicators. What she loves most is delivering custom-built coaching and training programmes. She thrives on supporting people in boosting their motivation, self-awareness, and confidence. Her belief is that people all have unique talents, abilities, and core values. The skill is about honouring them to the full.
Joyce Lain Kennedy is the author of the Tribune Media Services twice-weekly column CAREERS NOW, in its 35th year and appearing in more than 100 newspapers and web sites.
Joyce has received more than three million reader letters. In her column, she has answered in excess of 4,800 queries from readers.
She is the author or senior author of seven career books, including Joyce Lain Kennedys Career Book (McGraw-Hill), and Electronic Job Search Revolution, Electronic Resume Revolution, and Hook Up, Get Hired! The Internet Job Search Revolution (the last three published by John Wiley & Sons). Resumes For Dummies is one of a trio of job market books published under Wileys widely popular For Dummies imprint. The others are Cover Letters For Dummies and Job Interviews For Dummies.
Malcolm Kushner, Americas Favourite Humour Consultant, is an internationally acclaimed expert on humour and communication and a professional speaker. Since 1982, he has trained thousands of managers, executives, and professionals on how to gain a competitive edge with humour. His clients include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Chevron, Aetna, Motorola, and Bank of America.