The Career Adventurers Fieldguide: Your Guide to Career Success - Softcover

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STEPHEN COOMBER has written for a variety of publications from The Times to Internet Money magazine. He is author of Branding, co-author of Architects of the Business Revolution and has worked on many other business books including The FT Guide to Business Travel, The Management Century and The Ultimate Book of Business Brands.

STUART CRAINER is the author of The Management Century. His work appears in The Times and leading business magazines including Across the Board, Strategy & Business and Business 2.0.

DES DEARLOVE is the co-author, with Stephen Coomber, of Architects of the Business Revolution. He is a former commissioning editor of The Times, and remains a frequent contributor to the newspaper. His work appears in business publications worldwide including Across the Board, Chief Executive Magazine and Straegy & Business.

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Work has changed.

Employment has changed.

Careers have changed.

? On average most people have been with their current employer for just 3.5 years.

? Between the ages of 18 and 32, the average worker has 8.6 different jobs.

? 40% of interviewees in a recent survey said they would change their career straight away given the chance.

? 50% of us will be self-employed by the year 2010.

What do these statistics tell us? It tells us that the world of work and how we understand our role within it is undergoing a major shift. A typical career is no longer a long hard slog through the ranks of a single organization. It is a series of career adventures: a journey towards career enlightenment. It is a search for the perfect fit between you and your work.

The Career Adventurer?s Fieldbook helps you through this journey, where career and life become intertwined. Stephen Coomber, Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer guide the career adventurer to base camp (acquiring the right level of knowledge and skills), then to your first destination (making sure you are hired by the organization you have selected, including insider tips about how employers select employees). It is packed with information, techniques, and advice from people who have dared to pursue their career aspirations. Some of them have reached the summit of those aspirations, while others are still striving. But what unites them all is their conviction that there should be more to working life than brain numbing, soul withering tedium.

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Career Adventurer s Curriculum Vitae

Name: Careers Adventurer s Fieldbook

Address: www.careeradventurer.com

Salary: £12.99

Date of birth: September 2002

Summary:

The Career Adventurer's Fieldbook is the first career guide for the 21st Century. It offers a complete self-managed process for understanding your life goals, your material and spiritual needs and your strengths as a person and worker. Instead of offering a single career solution, the book presents the reader with a journey, an adventure, where career and life become intertwined.

Key skills:

Well-written and assiduously researched including interviews with dozens of real life career adventurers among them a New York City belly dancer, a pet psychologist and a chief fun officer. The Career Adventurer s Fieldbook tells it like it really is, cutting through the corporate clutter. From networking your way to your perfect job to managing office politics, it is jammed full of tips, advice, and information from experts and fellow adventurers on how to get the best out of your career journey.

Education:

Three year vocational course at the School of Hard Knocks, followed by a degree in Office Politics (with a distinction in Water Cooler Diplomacy) at the University of Life. Recently completed a distance learning course in Flexibility and the Art of Embracing Change. Now qualified to pass on pertinent, refreshing and cutting-edge careers advice

Career History:

No. Careers should be about the future, whatever your age, qualification or experience. In a UK survey in 2001, 40 percent of respondents said they would change their career tomorrow given the chance. The Career Adventurer s Fieldbook aims to show them how.

Between them the book s authors have pursued a number of intriguing jobs, including pig farm labourer, tree surgeon, timeshare salesman and golf caddie, in their own personal pursuit of a vocational Valhalla. And who s to say they ve finished?

Qualifications:

None at all - why shouldn t you want to go in search of the perfect job?

Interests:

Dragging careers advice into the 21st Century, Mapping unchartered territories, Helping people fulfil their potential, Reading

References:

Marketing guru Philip Kotler: "Fewer managers will spend their whole career within one company. Managers will be more attached to their knowledge specialty than to their current company. There will be active markets for each knowledge specialty, and managers will be on the lookout for advancement opportunities. The key then is for tomorrow s managers to study the various knowledge specialties and choose the one that will yield the most market value in the long run. The company itself will need to develop better inducement packages for retaining their most valued knowledge workers."