Ground of Your Own Choosing: Winning Strategies for Finding & Creating Work

By Beverly Ryle

Book Overview

Finding work in a today's changing times is like fighting a war. The "winning side" in this "war" is the one that knows how to positions itself where it has the advantage, the "ground of its own... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888959452
• ISBN13: 9781888959451
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Shank Painter Publishing
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Help in finding work

"It's a new day," Beverly tell us in her book about finding work. Resumes, networking, and daily internet searches will not get us the work or career we hope to have. The reality of work search and work itself has undergone seismic shifts. Today's workers will have an average of ten different employers by age 38. Much work needing to be done can now be done anywhere by those electronically connected. No longer does the long-sanctioned, outdated job search produce results. Into this void between old and new steps GROUND OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING. Ryle explains that we must learn to negotiate the new realities of becoming and staying employed. We need to be entrepreneurial in how we view our work, to think 'projects' rather than long-term employment, to see the people we work for as clients not as employers. It may seem overwhelming to take on such responsibility rather than to look for yet one more organization that will keep us safely employed for years. But that is what is necessary, and it is what Ryle helps us do. Ryle, like all good teachers, straddles the line between kindness and task master. Her plan is clear, her support is palpable, and her years of experience as a career counselor are evident. She tells us what we must do to be on the GROUND OF OUR OWN CHOOSING rather than to be ground up by a system that no longer works. This book packs a lot of punch. This book is a gem.

A career guide for 21st century

As a career coach, I was particulary interested in reading the latest book to hit the market. It's an easy read. And, now, I've begun to recommend it to clients and other coaches. To my surprise, however, I found myself pausing to answer some of the questions and complete the exercises to benefit my own practice and refresh my spirit. This book, aptly titled because it's strategic and empowering, will be very helpful for those who know the career search process is entrepreneurial and relationship-based.

First-hand experience: Love this book

I found Bev when I was at a real crossroads in my career. Having lost the job I held for 14 years, I didn't know what to do. Not only did Bev point me in the right direction, she gave me the tools and philosophies to effectively find work in this, the post-industrial revolution. Today, I'm so thrilled that Bev has written all of that down in this book. Bev has a clear vision of what's happening in the contemporary workforce as well as what's going to happen. This book will have you absolutely prepared and enthused.

Inspirational guidance

Ryle's "Ground of your own Choosing" provides inspiration and guidance for those contemplating a professional change to connect with meaningful and engaging work. Ryle's innovative approach encourages us to reframe our thinking and to align ourselves with who we are and what we would like to become. For a seasoned professional wanting to reenergize their work life or a college graduate setting the course for a centered and productive career, Ryle offers a clear path with practical tips. "Ground of your own Choosing" is an exceptional book.

Re-energize your job search overnight!

At a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans are experiencing job loss, Beverly Ryle's new book "Ground of your own Choosing: Winning Strategies for Finding and Creating Work" could not have come at a better time. She tells us to throw out the resumes and quit networking. Work is different, she says, and we have been in the midst of a "workquake" that has changed the world when it comes to getting a job. Rather than resumes and networking, Ryle tells us to begin building community, actually meeting people to research possibilities for using our skills in new or different ways. She encourages us to define reality by taking a hard look at what has been going on in our job search and why it isn't working, reshape the mission by creatively envisioning a new professional life, and working the problem by moving toward the vision one step at a time. This book is worth every penny. Lisbeth Wiley Chapman, Principal, Ink & Air PR Consulting, Wellfleet, MA.