Creating You & Co: Be the Boss of Your Own Career

by WilliamBridges (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.27

  This volume shows how readers can renew their career by rebuilding it on the only two bases that can endure: the market's needs and one's own resources. This practical book is about finding work, work that both satisfies and supports. Looking for a job, the book argues is the wrong way to go about this because jobs are disappearing as the best way of getting work done in today's fast-moving, high-tech information age. The book is a do-it-yourself career development programme involving four key steps: how to discover and describe the unique mix of resources that the reader can bring to the new work place; how to develop an eye for markets, and use it to search this workplace for the bgest places to apply one's resources; how to combine the personal data about one's resources with the external information about opportunities into a viable product; and how to reinvent a career as a one-person business, built around the creation and delivery of that product, and how to create a practical plan to develop that business. William Bridges is the author of Transitions and Managing Transitions .

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  Paperback
  1998

  $11.67

  Stop looking for the right job, career couselors now tell us. Start thinking of yourself as the head of a small business called 'You & Co.,' and view employers as potential customers. That's the key to a successful career. That all very well, but how? No one is better at explaining the new world of work better than William Bridges, inventor of the term You & Co. In Creating You & Co., he provides workers with a practical guide to overcoming the employment trends illuminated in his bestsellers Managing Transitions and JobShift. By seeing beyond outdated notions of the job and learning to think as a business leader, you can find work that over the years will be both more fulfilling and more secure. Creating You & Co. provides self-assessment tests that help you to identify your Desires, Abilities, Temperament, and Assets. This D.A.T.A. is more than a window to what you like doing it reveals your unique advantges in the work market. Other exercises lead you through the process of defining your product and spotting your market. By the end of this book, you'll think about your work in a new way,you'll think like the CEO of You & Co.As Bridges shows, true security comes not from clinging to a job, but from doing the work you're best at for the employers who need it. By learning that approach you can cement your value to your current employer, shape a new job for yourself, actually start a small company, or blaze your own path. No matter what shape your You & Co. takes, we will all need to learn the Creating You & Co. approach to prosper in the years ahead.

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $4.27