Smart Things to Know About, Your Career [Paperback]

Tactics for getting on the inside track to the very top - from communicating with your boss to making a splash on your first day.What is Smart?

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 A Short History of Work and Careers

Interlude 1: The Way we Work

2 Taking Stock

3 Attributes of a Smart Careerist

Interlude 2: The New Language of Work

4 Moving On

Interlude 3: The Ten Stages of a Career

5 Roads Less Travelled By

6 Survival and Success in the New Work Economy

7 A Final Word

Annotated Bibliography

Smart Sources

Internet Sites

IndexJohn Middleton is the founder of the Bristol Management Research Centre. Recognized as a leading expert in personal and systems thinking technologies, he works as a coach and consultant with individuals and organisations that are determined to make best use of the future.

From 1996 to 2001 he published and edited Future Filter, a bi-monthly business digest. He is the author of Writing the New Economy and four ExpressExec books.Smart workers know that the nation of lifetime employment in one company has all but disappeared. We are experiencing huge uncertainties about future career and job prospects. Don't believe it? Just ask yourself whether you have the same attitude to work as your parents had. The 'job for life' seems like a leftover concept from a very different era.

So if the future of work is destined to be ever more volatile what can we Smart careerists do to give ourselves a better than average chance of survival?

Smart Things to Know about Your Career gives you the resources and inflc^