The Career Survival Guide

Making Your Next Career Move

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A complete guide to surviving and thriving in the strange new world of workMassive, industry-wide layoffs, epic-making mergers, wildly unstable markets, unprecedented corporate restructuring. . . . Welcome to the new world of work, a strange, unpredictable place where none of the old tried-and-true career-building strategies seem to apply. But don’t despair, this important new book by best-selling author Brian O’Connell arms you with a road map and a set of proven strategies for successfully navigating this strange new world.The Career Survival Guide is an indispensable source of expert analysis and guidance for today’s beleaguered corporate citizen. Featuring the insights of dozens of corporate execs, human resources experts, business owners, career counselors, and successful employees, it provides the most accurate assessment of the current job environment to date, and it offers you a gold mine of sure-fire tips on how to:find a mentor get and use insider business information read the tea leaves when your job may be on the line finesse corporate politics enhance your visibility leverage sudden economic change . . . And, perhaps most important, you’ll learn about the seven types of corporate survivors—“Switzerlands,” “Gumbies,” “Terrorists,” “Benign Saboteurs,” “Stoics,” and “Don’t Worry, Be Happy’s”—and how to determine which type is most consistent with your personality and plays to your strengths.Read The Career Survival Guide and substantially increase your chances of having a successful and fulfilling career in today’s strange new world of work.