Book Description Career experts Pat Alea and Patty Mullins present a new approach to looking at your career, one that incorporates every aspect of your life. Using the simple, three-part program that is the hallmark of Alea's and Mullins's career consulting work--and mapping out your own personal Lifeline--you will be able to jump-start your career...and your life. Clarity will help you discover where you are, where you've been, what matters most, and where you're headed before you make your next move. Strategy will teach you to map and track your opportunities and get the straight talk on rsums, networking, and interviews. Action will put to use the resources available to you and move you to success and satisfaction. The Best Work of Your Life is a continuous process of focusing and refocusing that helps you to integrate values, goals, and new opportunities--into a powerful, ever-changing vision.
Synopsis Career experts Pat Alea and Patty Mullins present a new approach to looking at your career that incorporates every aspect of your life. Discover where you are, where you've been, what matters most, and where you're headed--before you make your next move. This program is a continuous process of refocusing to integrate values, goals, and new opportunities.
This book is unlike any other career guidance book out there. Its philosophy is to help you find the job that fits you, rather than vice-versa. This subtle distinction is the difference that will set you apart from all the other candidates. The book provides several easy, insightful excercises to help you discover and articulate the kind of work that you thrive on. From there, it walks you through how to find the job of your dreams. Throw out any other career books you have; this is the only one you'll need.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Disappointing
February 10, 2000
Reviewer:
A reader
from Long Island, NY
I'm obviously in the minority, but I didn't find this book very helpful. The approach described in the book may be well suited for people just beginning their careers or entering/re-entering the workforce mid-life. However, I don't think that the advice in the book is really geared toward the person who is established in a career and seeking advice on how to realistically make a change. I wish I had not spent my money; there are definitely more helpful books out there.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
a philosophical edge!
October 28, 1999
Reviewer:
nef2@po.cwru.edu (nef2@po.cwru.edu)
from Cleveland Heights, Ohio
this book showed me the way to find the work the made me happy and not just occupied 8 hours per day. thank you pat and patty!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Fantastic!!
August 22, 1999
Reviewer:
A reader
from Madison, WI
This book is, hands down, the best-written, most practical career book I have ever read. It is a treasured volume that is already much-referenced as I work through the chapters and follow the authors' solid advice. This book can change your life - it did mine.
