Your First Job: How to make a success of starting work and ensure your first year is the launch of a successful career

by Mark Blayney

Each year in the UK approximately half a million young people enter the world of work for the first time and begin to compete in their careers.

And how well you cope with the pressures and demands of your first year of work can help determine how successful a career you will go on to have, and how far you will reach.

But with Your First Job, you can get an unfair advantage over your contemporaries by quickly learning the real life techniques of how to manage people and work, things they may end up learning the hard way.

So ensure you have the skills, for example, of how to say No, how to manage your time to be productive and efficient, and how to avoid the dangers of being overwhelmed and stressed out by the levels of work that can head your way if you don't know how to manage the demands of people around you at work.

Get your copy of Your First Job today and use the tools and techniques it will teach you to make a success of starting work and help you launch your successful career.

206 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

I'm one of the founding Partners of Galen Partners and have over 20 years experience in both managing SME businesses and advising fellow SME owners.

I trained with PwC where I worked in SME business restructuring in the UK, overseas and on secondment into one of the clearing bank’s business support teams.

I left PwC to go out into industry where I became involved in a business turnaround, before setting up my own consultancy and finance brokerage about 10 years ago, as well as more recently becoming involved in buying manufacturing businesses to turn around.

I'm the author of a number of books for owner managers on a range of business and finance issues and is an accredited turnaround professional as a practising certificate holding member of the Institute for Turnaround.

Reviews

[Gail Danks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not really relevant to me. Seems outdated too

[Toyin Spades · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book for a new jobseeker to read. It covers the basis and acts as a checklist of things one requires.