How To Get Out of Job Jail
Eight Ways to Have the Career You've Always Wanted
By: Audrey B. LeGrand
Published: November 1, 2007
Format: Paperback, 97 pages
ISBN-10: 0615201717
ISBN-13: 978-0615201719
Publisher: Innovators & Motivators
"Unless you are the president of your company, you probably have your eye on a job that is different from the one you have now", writes corporate trainer and human resources consultant Audrey B. LeGrand, in her engaging and very hands on book How To Get Out of Job Jail: Eight Ways to Have the Career You've Always Wanted. The author describes a step by step process to manage a career from an entry level job, to a top management position, or an entrepreneurial success story.
Audrey LeGrand recognizes the critical importance of not only getting a better job, but of finding and landing a position in the career that best suits the person's goals and passion. For the author, to feel trapped in an unsuitable or undesirable job is the equivalent of being in job jail. Audrey LeGrand guides the prospective jail breaker through her system for not only finding a dream job; but for landing a position in a dream career. The author starts at the logical point of helping the job seeker discover the most desirable job to launch that ideal career path. The journey continues through self discovery to include the necessary qualifications to do an exceptional job. With the goals and qualifications in hand, Audrey LeGrand shares some valuable preparation tips, and the motivation to make the leap into that great career.
Audrey B. LeGrand (photo left) presents her valuable and easy to remember CAREER system, where each letter represents an essential part of the journey from job jail to the dream career:
C - communication skills
A - abilities
R - responsibilities
E - etiquette skills - entrepreneurial traits
E - enthusiasm - ethics
R - relationship skills
Audrey LeGrand guides the job seeker through each of these crucial steps, to ensure that the prospective employee or future entrepreneur, is offering the total package of skills and personal traits. With this sound advice in hand, the prospective job jail escapee is equipped to not only make a career change in a good economy, but in a recessionary period as well. Exceptional employees are in high demand in any economy, and this book teaches a person how to be the applicant who stands out in the crowd.
For me, the power of the book is how Audrey LeGrand wastes no space with unnecessary information. Every page in this fine book provides either a critical lesson, or helps in the self-assessment process to ensure that the person understands their own passions and goals. To break free of job jail forever, a person not only must know the job requirements of the sought after position, but know themselves as well. The author shares her secrets for knowing oneself better, and for transferring that knowledge into career action.
The book contains numerous checklists, and self-assessment forms, resulting in a book that not only provides very useful information, but is a study guide as well. Reading the book is more than simply absorbing the wisdom, but also an exercise in learning throughout. Every chapter concludes with a handy summary for quick review, to make sure that all of the concepts are understood and internalized by the reader. The author also includes important chapters on employment ethics and on etiquette, that are so often missing from career change guidebooks. Overall, the book is one that can help the prospective job seeker enter into that dream career, seamlessly and with flair.
I highly recommend the highly practical and discovery oriented book How To Get Out of Job Jail: Eight Ways to Have the Career You've Always Wanted by Audrey B. LeGrand, to anyone seeking to escape an undesirable job, and needs some powerful advice for entering that dream career. This book provides the tools and skills necessary for making the transition from dead end to extraordinary employment.
Read the handy and results minded book How To Get Out of Job Jail: Eight Ways to Have the Career You've Always Wanted by Audrey B. LeGrand, and put the power of CAREER thinking to work for you. Your escape from job jail will be a glorious event, as you embark on the exciting career that you were born to live.
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