ReBoot Your Career: A Blueprint for Finding Your Calling, Marketing Yourself, and Landing Great Gigs

by Paul Gibbons

Reboot Your A Blueprint for Finding Your Calling, Marketing Yourself, and Landing Great Gigs gives readers an insight into the changing world of work; then tools to help identify their calling, their values, and their work-style; then tools to help create compelling resumes and social media profiles; and finally, tools for networking and job hunting in the 21st century. In the introduction, you will get to grips with the essentials of the career mindset, the most important megatrends affecting the world of work, and which career myths might be holding you back. In section one, you will understand yourself better through a series of profiling exercises - this helps uncover the "authentic you", where your talents belong in the world, where you will flourish, and what your passions and values are. In section two, you learn to brand yourself online, on social media, and in formal descriptions (such as resumes and LinkedIn profiles). Since your personal brand is based on the authentic you, you can create these with passion and verve - making you stand out from the crowd because what you say and who you are are aligned. In section three, you see why most job hunts fail - the hidden job market. This leads to counter intuitive suggestions on how to look for gigs, and how to network based on 21st century science. In short - Reboot Your Career covers "who am I and what am I passionate about", "how to brand and present myself", and "how to look for gigs."

157 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2016

About the author

PAUL GIBBONS (from London, England) is passionate about science, and how science can be used to transform the human condition, and improve humanity's prospects. His writing and teaching "at the nexus of science, philosophy, and business" focuses on the application of the wider human sciences (not just psychology), philosophy, medicine, public health, mathematics, behavioral economics, and machine intelligence to business and business leadership.

He began his career by earning a degree in neurochemistry, followed by Masters-level study in International Economics and Finance. At 20, he moved to London as a "quant" derivatives trader, working at Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and First Boston. He eventually became Director of Eurobond Trading for the world's third largest bank. At 28, he resumed doctoral study in neuroscience, and then joined PwC as a strategist and expert on derivatives, advising on trading disasters such as Barings, National Westminster and Long-Term Capital. He then joined PwC's "Strategy, Innovation and Change" think-tank, developed its methodologies in change management, innovation and corporate transformation, and ran its board-level leadership development programs.

In 2001, Gibbons then founded his own firm, Future Considerations, which grew at 60% per annum under his leadership and still competes successfully for leadership development and culture change consulting engagements at top companies. After selling that firm, he joined the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a lecturer, while continuing to coach senior executives worldwide. In 2008, CEO Magazine named him one of two "CEO Super Coaches." He recently published Reboot Your Life: A 12-day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive.

He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his two sons, Conor and Luca.

Reviews

[Deborah I · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for branding oneself in the labour market place.