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Make Your Move: Career Dynamics for Changing Times Kindle Edition
Lois Keay-Smith (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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You may be currently working in a toxic environment, where escape is necessary to your wellbeing, but you’re not certain of the best way forward. Or, you have tried to make a move and it didn’t quite work out. Perhaps it has been a while since you have been job hunting and you realise times have changed, and you are a little rusty!
Whatever your circumstances, making a move isn’t easy, but it is often necessary – and this book will help.
Make your Move is about navigating your career in changing times. Jobs are lesser and many just aren’t fulltime and permanent anymore. Jobs can become temporary as employees find their positions being made redundant. However, there are different modes of work and being able to attract and create work for yourself is not only a good idea, but a vital modern career skill.
Make Your Move delves into the different modes and kinds of work and examines various models of working, how to stay ahead of the curve by practising prescience, discernment, and inviting in serendipity – as well as building resilience and connections in rapidly changing times. You will gain insights and tips into the key things that really matter when getting a job or creating work for yourself and how to increase your confidence to be your best career advocate.
The ideas and strategies in this book outline the various ways that you can get work – and can help you make the move to a happier work life. You will become your own best connector and marketer, so that you can find great opportunities and attract them to you – and help others.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date18 November 2017
- File size268 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B077LGWX4K
- Publisher : Career Wisdom (18 November 2017)
- Language : English
- File size : 268 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 136 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 446,678 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 59 in Job Hunting (Kindle Store)
- 91 in Vocational Guidance (Kindle Store)
- 2,173 in Job Hunting & Career Guides
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About the author

Lois Keay-Smith, author of "Make Your Move" is Director and a Career Transition Coach and consultant with Career Wisdom, helping people to "find their why, and their way!" A career changer herself, she is a qualified career counsellor and career coach working in the field for 12 years, Lois has worked with a variety of clients including “at risk” youth, executives, graduates, professional rugby players, ballet dancers and young people with cancer.
Lois loves writing as it makes career help accessible to all. She is writing her next book called "Find Your Groove"
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Lois has mastered the model of mixing practical strategies with personal experience and all of that makes it really easy to read.
The book is focussed on the future - what people can do and need to do for the future - it's not talking about strategies that are "old hat" or "last year" - it talks about how things have changed and are continuing to change and how to manage and deal with those changes.
I highly recommend this great book!
Written by an expert that clearly knows her field, this book is more than a guide to give you the ‘know how’ to ‘make your move’, it will inspire you to do so now! If you’ve ever felt ‘stuck’ in your career, or know someone that is, then do yourself a favour – read this book!
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One of my favorite takeaways was asking the two questions, "What's in here?" (pointing to self) and "What's out there?" (pointing to the world market). I would recommend this book to anyone looking to change careers or find more freelance work.

This is much more than just another job-seeking book, however, and although it does have a lot of excellent advice to help you secure the job you desire, Lois focuses first on helping you to identify the right career for you, one which will be most fulfilling based on your values, interests, needs, skills, and personal preferences. She then moves into helping you to secure that career, knowing that the old ways of working have changed, no longer do people necessarily have a career for life (although they are clearly much more likely to find a career they are happy and satisfied with if they take Lois's advice).
The book includes practical checklists for resumes and guidelines for writing cover letters and addressing selection criteria, as well as getting the job via job interviews, how to prepare and how to ensure that you address the selection criteria. Also includes advice on freelancing, contracting and other modes of work with practical advice on how to market yourself and your services. Throughout, there are several helpful case studies and inspiring stories of success from her clients.
There are also useful guidelines for networking, including how to prepare for success, and the encouragement to be open to serendipitous meetings and tips for how to take advantage of chance encounters. It also offers crucial advice on how to develop your confidence. The focus throughout is on getting you into action and helping you to "Make your move!" I recommend this book very highly and I know that if anyone can help you to get the right career for you, Lois can.

This book is your very own career adviser, therapist and support team. Take the worry, stress and second guessing out of the process, and make your next career transition painless and smooth.
