Fearless Career Change: The Fast Track to Success in a New Field

by Marky Stein

Overview

A complete program for quickly transitioning to a new career from the bestselling author of Fearless Interviewing

In Fearless Career Change, top career coach Marky Stein shows readers how to transition to a new career with minimal stress, time, and personal expense. She belies the myth that it takes years to prepare for a new career, and she offers a proven model for accelerating the career change process.

With the help of work sheets, quick tips, and sample documents--including resumes, cover letters, phone scripts, and more--she gets readers up and running with what they need to:

• Quickly identify their desired career paths
• Avoid procrastination, self-sabotage, fear of failure, and other psychological obstacles to starting a new career
• Get the training they need as quickly as possible
• Start their own businesses
• Write winning resumes and ace every interview--even if the new field is completely different from the old one

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071445962
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/22/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Marky Stein (San Jose, CA) is a career coach and author on interviewing and career transitioning. She frequently speaks at career conferences and is well known to readers of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and other major publications.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	Overcoming Your Fears	1
Chapter 2	Creating Your Career Fingerprint	13
Chapter 3	Testing the Waters	43
Chapter 4	Eight Fast-Track Strategies for Successful Career Changers	59
Chapter 5	Strategic Education	79
Chapter 6	Ten Success Stories About People Just Like You	87
Chapter 7	Setting and Reaching Enticing Goals	117
Chapter 8	The Accelerated Job Search	127
Chapter 9	For Entrepreneurial Spirits	165
Chapter 10	Loving Your New Career	175
	Index	181

Editorial Reviews

Career coach Marky Stein has written Fearless Career Change to show those looking to enter a new career how to find the right one, get the training they need, set goals, and write a résumé and cover letter that will get results. Full of practical wisdom and exercises for determining the most appropriate career options, Fearless Career Change presents the keys to performing an accelerated job search, offers helpful tactics from people who have changed their jobs, and provides tips for unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

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