Targeting a Great Career

by Kate Wendleton

Landing the job of your dreams means you need to have a dream to begin with. Targeting a Great Career helps you identify that dream . . . make it specific . . . and figure out step by step how you can achieve it. Kate Wendleton and The Five O'Clock Club have already helped tens of thousands of job hunters across the country discover what they re best at, what they love doing, and how they can turn their vision into reality. Exercises throughout the book allow readers to picture what they want their life to be like in the future and what they can do today to make their dreams come true. The celebrated Five O'Clock Club method involves work ... lots of work. And much of that work is research - research on the lnternet into the areas you have targeted; Targeting a Great Career is filled with strategies and tips that can help you achieve your goals.

Genres: Business

216 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jessica]

I GOT to say......the exercises in here basically took all the thoughts I ever wanted to verbalize to understand my journey more, and put them all into structure for me. I despise pondering my past experiences because I want to get away from them. But the exercises in here actually make me want to analyze my past, which I honestly never want to do. While I was doing the "Satisfiers & Dissatisfiers Of Past Jobs" list, it shed light to me to write what I personally counted as satisfying or dissatisfying, and not just the textbook definition of a benefit from that job. If I constantly stick to the textbook definition instead of what I personally deem beneficial, all of my next jobs will be like the last one. All the exercises combined provide useful information that make you think very deeply into what you want for a FUTURE job.

I did have to try to get past the beginning, it was a little repetitive. Although I did think there were too many case studies, I appreciate that they all seemed as realistic as they claim them to be, so they're worth it.