Targeting the Job You Want

Targeting the Job You Want:
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TARGETING THE JOB YOU WANT by Kate Wendleton
(ISBN 0-944054-11-0; Five O'Clock Books; 256 pages, $15). Finally--the best way to figure out what to do with your life in this tumultuous economy.
  • Where are the jobs of the future?
  • Where do you fit in?
  • How can you have job security?

Step through the sophisticated methodology used at The Five O'Clock Club to: select job targets that have a future, decide your long-term career goals, and develop a career plan that will position you for the next 20 years. Learn how to keep your career on track, build excellent working relationships and get along with your bosses. The book also has an extensive annotated bibliography to help you select new fields--the best bibliography on the market. Before your search gets going, make sure you're on the right track.

Preface
PART ONE--The Changing Job Market:
How It Works Today
(if you are in a hurry to do the exercises, go to part two.)

  • You and the New Job Market
  • How to Change Careers
  • Job Hunting versus Career Planning
  • Targeting the Jobs of the Future
  • Case Studies: Targeting the Future
  • What Longevity Means to Your Career

PART TWO--Deciding What You Want:
Start by Understanding Yourself
(if you are already in a field you love, go to part four.)

  • How to Find Your Place in the World
  • How to Decide What You Want
  • Deciding What You Want: Selecting Your Job Targets
  • Exercises to Analyze Your Past and Present:
    • The Seven Stories Exercise
    • Your Current Work-Related Values
    • Other Exercises: Interests, Satisfiers, and Bosses
    • Your Special Interests
    • Satisfiers and Dissatisfiers in Past Jobs
    • Your Relationship with Bosses
    • Getting Feedback From Others
    • Looking Into Your Future:
    • Your Forty-Year Plan
    • Your Forty-Year Plan . . . It's (Almost) Never Too Late
    • The Ideal Scene
    • Howard: Developing a Plan
    • Self-Assessment Summary
  • Take a Breather

PART THREE--How to Select Your Job Targets:
Brainstorming Possible Jobs

  • Brainstorming Possible Jobs
  • How to Decide What You Want to Offer
  • Jobs/Industries Worth Exploring: Preliminary Target Investigation
  • Targeting: The Start of an Organized Search
  • How to Target the Job You Want
  • Target Selection / Measuring Your Targets
  • A Job Well Done
  • Elizabeth Ghaffari: A Résumé Case Study
PART FOUR--Quick and Effective Research:
How To Get on the Right Track
(Do not skip this step.)

  • Research
    • Researching Your Job Targets.
    • List of Companies to Contact
    • Research Resources for an Effective Job Search
  • Learning to Track Trends and Move Into a New Market:
  • What's Happening in the Health Care Job Market
  • What's Happening in the Interactive Job Market
  • What's Happening in the Electric Power Industry
  • Career Makeovers: Five Who Did It
    (in Sports, Animals, Small Business, Cosmetics, Teaching)
    • Case Study: Making a Winning Move to Sports
    • Case Study: Working With Animals was Her First Love
    • Case Study: Self-Image was the Key for This Homemaker
    • Case Study: Looking to Makeup a World of Opportunity
    • Case Study: Stalled Career Opens Door for Mechanic
PART FIVE--Advanced Career Planning:
How to Manage Your Future
(Do this part if you want to get ahead of the game.)

  • Having a Balanced Life
  • Deborah: Developing a Detailed Plan
  • What You Can Do in Your Present Situation
  • The Eight-Word Message
  • New Shapes in Careers: How to Repackage the Work You Want to Do
  • A Reminder of Some Basic Career Principles
  • How to Keep Your Life Course in Mind
  • Congratulations!

PART SIX--Career and Job-Search Bibliography
(Look at this part for help in researching a field or industry.)

  • Introduction
  • Section One: Materials in Print
  • 1. Guide to Guides, Directories, and Business Information Sources
  • 2. General: Industry Trends, Forecasts, and Outlooks
  • 3. General: Company Information Guides and Directories
  • 4. Specific Industry Trends and Company Information
    1. Advertising and Public Relations
    2. Environment
    3. Finance
    4. Health Care
    5. High Technology
    6. Human Resources
    7. Importing / Exporting / Trading
    8. Information Industry
    9. International Markets
    10. Law and Government
    11. Media
    12. Not-for-Profit / Fund-Raising
    13. Public Relations
    14. Publishing
    15. Sales and Marketing
    16. Services
    17. Small / Private Business
    18. Special Events / Trade Shows
    19. Transportation
    20. Travel and Hospitality
    21. Real Estate
    22. Education
  • 5. Information on Executives and Management
  • Section Two: CD-ROM Databases
    • General Reference Information /
    • General Financial Information
    • Newspaper Articles and Abstracts
    • Magazines, Trade Journals, and Abstracts
    • Science, Engineering, and Technology
    • Health Care (also check Science, Engineering, and Technology)
    • Government and Law
    • Academia
    • Services
    • Miscellaneous Creative: Music, Art, Architecture, Graphics, and Religion
    • International

  • Section Three: On-Line Databases
    • Big Picture / Trends
    • General News/Trade/Business Articles
    • Engineering
    • Finance Industry
    • Financial Information about Companies
    • General Company Information
    • Advertising
    • Health Care
    • High Technology
    • Insurance
    • International Markets
    • Law
PART SEVEN--What is The Five O'Clock Club?
"America's Premier Career Counseling Network"

  • How to Join the Club
  • Questions You May Have About the Weekly Job-Search Strategy Group
  • The Way We Are
  • Lexicon Used at The Five O'Clock Club
  • Application for Club Membership and Subscription to The Five O'Clock News
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