Your Career, Your Way: Personal Strategies to Achieve Your Career Aspirations

By Lisa Quast

Book Overview

Consultant Quast contends that any woman regardless of age or profession can use the business concept of a strategic plan to advance her career. Ten chapters take the reader through the various stages... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936048086
• ISBN13: 9781936048083
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Career Woman, Incorporated
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Career Tool for Women and Men Alike

The format, writing style, and length of this book make it an easy read - you can probably finish it in one sitting (maybe two if the kids distract you). This simplicity does not in any way diminish the value I have extracted. As other reviewiers have written, the real benefits come from taking time for introspection and thoughtful completion of the exercises. The author's intelligent career management advice will help you build a strategic plan to help you meet your goals. Treating your career like a strategic exercise will highlight personal strengths and weaknesses; identify necessary experience, education, and training; and give you an objective basis to manage your career growth with drive and conviction. This book was clearly tailored to help women define and achieve their career aspirations. But men - myself included - can also benefit greatly from Lisa Quast's cogent advice!

Great Tool for Finding Your Path

This book is very useful in helping someone find a fufilling path in their career and life. Lisa wrote the book in an easy to read style. The exercises don't require a lot of time (most can be completed in 30 minutes or less) and are designed to help you discover what path in your career life is the best for you. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to be the best they can as a professional and a person.

Excellent, logical career planning tool

Lisa's book provides a concise, process driven approach to career planning. You get out of it what you put into it, so while the process and forms may seem a bit daunting at first, I think this is something we should all think about and go through if we want our careers to move forward. Lisa ties career planning to strategic planning, applying strategic planning principles to elevate your self and career awareness. Great concept and very useful book. A guick read, but spend time on the exercises to get the most from the book.

The career-planning help I needed...

As a woman who is just beginning my career, I found this book extremely helpful. Unlike books that simply suggest job-hunting techniques, Your Career,Your Way is actually helping me plan my future. This book provides templates so that it was easy for me to map out not only my next steps at my current job, but my long-term goals.I know I'll use the tools and advice in this book throughout my career. I highly recommend this book for women who are looking to create a personal plan for success-this book will motivate you to achieve your goals.

Smart, Motivational and Thought-Provoking For All

This book is not only for someone who's lost in identifying his or her career trajectory. It's for everyone interested the pursuit of betterment. While designed to help professionals, I found the book and exercises to be applicable to my personal life too. Quast does a great job of thoughtfully, yet quickly (3 hours or so) helping readers self-assess their own strengths and weaknesses - there's nothing like finding a roadmap that will help you take a closer look at what you are doing and how you might do it better. I finished the book with a newfound motivation to strive for a little more, while having the tools to do so at my fingertips. I'd highly recommend.