Career Change: Everything You Need to Know to Meet New Challenges and Take Control of Your Career

By David P. Helfand

Those looking for a new career direction will find reassuring advice in this upbeat guide--from overcoming obstacles to adapting to change to assessing a new employer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844242691
• ISBN13: 9780844242699
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read for Serious Career Changers

"I found Career Change to be full of practical and helpful strategies (including real life experiences of 10 career changers). Dr. Helfand has put together a treasure of resource material much needed in these troubling recessionary times. The author's writing style is very down to earth and easy to read. The highight for me was the 50 plus page Chapter on helping people identify career options with the use of a case study, the actual complete assessment details of a real person..........very helpful in seeing how to get your results and understand them. No other book I'm aware of quite covers this topic so thoroughly. Kudos to Dr. Helfand for hitting a grand slam Home Run in the World Series of job search and Career Change.

"Best of the Bunch"

Randall Hansen, Ph.D., Webmaster/Publisher of the leading career website Quintcareers.com had this to say about Career Change:"There is no question that if you are to use just one book in making the decision to change careers, that Helfand's Career Change is the book to use.....extremely thorough, provides excellent and empowering examples.....an impressive and comprehensive book about career change, the best of the bunch".February, 2003.Barbara Grauer, Book Review Editor for the Career Planning & Adult Development Journal had this to say about Career Change, ".....valuable resource, remarkable book, written with enthusiasm and the utmost sensitivity, a wonderful compendium of the best strategies for a major career change, used as a bible and guide--one could effect a career change with fabulous results".

Top Ten Career Book for '99, L.A. Times

...What People Are Saying Joyce Lain Kennedy, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, picked "Career Change" as one of the Top Ten Career Books for 1999."Career Change is a four star book..........this authoritative guidance by a well-credentialed career counselor earns a fifth star for addressing special needs of women, minorities, over 50, disabled and ex-military."Michelle Tullier @ Monster.com"......accurate in it's advice and comprehensive in it's approach. Anyone contemplating making a career change-whether by choice or necessity-will be well served by this book. "Career Change" is the most comprehensive handbook available on every aspect of the career transition process."American Counseling Association "A succinct, well focused guide to career planning and job issues."National Career Development Assoc. "Very useful....Dr. Helfand offers solid, concise advise, reflecting 20 years as a career counselor and professor."Career Opportunity News "A comprehensive review....contains far more content than the usual career guidance book."Highlights of 2nd Ed. of Career Change include:10 Profiled Career Changers - Read about their successes, some difficult decisions, and what strategies have worked for them since their last interviews four years ago. Tony, Our Case Study Subject, Has Been Reinterviewed - Find out how Tony's career is going and his reaction to the career counseling he experienced five years ago. Internet Sites Added - Over 200 top internet sites, related to career planning topics in the book, are referred to. Discover the wealth of information that awaits you on the internet. Self Assessment Exercises - To help you better focus your career change both the Work Values Satisfaction Self Assessment and the Entrepreneurial Personal Characteristics Self Assessment have been simplified and are now easier to complete and score. Demographic & Job Market Statistics - All demographic, as well as job market outlook statistics, have been updated to aid you in your career change. List of Recommended Readings - Over 140 recently published, recommended career books, have been added to the list, bringing the total to over 300 books. Let our work save you hours in identifying the best books, in every major career planning topic. Highlights of 1st Edition, Still Included in 2nd Edition:A detailed, in-depth, client case study is presented, showing step-by-step how to complete an Analysis of Life Experience exercise and with this client & 339;s actual Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator results, readers are shown how all this information is combined, to identify meaningful career options, for adults who may be unsure about what career to pursue. Additional self assessment exercises are included to help readers assess; their current level of job satisfaction (or identify the most important aspects for future job possibilities) by rating 80 Work Values in 7 categories, their entrepreneurial potential by rating 50 Personal Characteristics in

Better than most books on Career Change

The book starts out with 2 surveys. One survey assesses you and your work environment. You get to pinpoint, in quantitative terms, what works for you & what doesn't. The other assessment surveys your entrepreneurial skills, and whether starting your own business is for you. Armed with that information, the book launches into presenting all sorts of options, and references for following up, on whatever peaks your interest. The options approach in this book is a welcome change from the 'do it this way' format of some career books. A unique section on adult development points out how women's life goals at different stages, are often different than a man's life goals at the same stage. At last, it is in print, what we knew all along. This book also gives ways to overcome common problems. This is a welcome change from other books, whose motto is 'just do it'. Sometimes getting off the starting block is the real problem. This book has frank talk in that category, to get you going, and ease you into the process comfortably. If you need a gentle push, try this book.

A good addition to the job seeker's bookshelf

I enjoyed several parts of this book, especially the case studies and the focus on specific categories of job seekers. I can see the value in adding this book to your library of tools in pursuit of a new job.Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author, "The Accelerated Job Search" docwifford@msn.com