Who's Running Your Career?: Creating Stable Work in Unstable Times

By Caela Farren

Book Overview

Explains how to gain a long-term perspective on one's career, and gives advice on finding and creating the right job. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885167172
• ISBN13: 9781885167170
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Bard Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A Formula for a Lifetime

Farren takes the reader through a model/process of evaluation and planning. Her premise is that there are basic human needs that are timeless. Once you select the need that drives you (your passion) - you will always be in control of your vocation (serving others). Farren's unique approach is to match these universal human needs to professions. Having arrived at a profession, gaining mastery in that profession will withstand unstable job markets. As markets change, jobs get created or become obsolete, you will always have your mastery. Mastery is key! and "jobs" are very different from mastery. From that grounding - shifts/transitions and new directions can be self-managed and navigated. She helps the reader by adding specific information for 3 types of readers: new workers, in-transition, and experienced workers. She rounds out the book by providing sound information about the future of work: f/t, pt/, contingent and freelance. Additionally, she adds a new perspective on considering your job in terms of its "role." There may be others, but she puts forth: project managers, resource providers, specialists and strategists. Who's Running Your Career?, if you use it, will put you in charge.

If you read one business book this year, this is the one.

A guide to more than just work--this book gives you the key to a happier life. We all know that work envelops us more than just 9 to 5--it's more a 24/7 experience. This book will help you find a profession, not just a job, that allows the work and personal life you dream of.