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This is a must-have book for anyone with a career or wanting to improve their career. Written by career coaches Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov, it focuses on where you are in your career now and where you want to be, but includes some really heavy coaching techniques which aren’t taught in schools nor are they in most online courses. The book includes 10 steps which develop your career and make you stand out, legitimately, with no gimmicks and no quick fixes. It’s honest, hard work getting to where you need to be in your career but the book talks you through every step of the way.
It starts with the Career Edge Model (if you’re familiar with coaching then using models won’t be new to you) and has some nifty online tools which write reports for you about your strengths and usefulness. The book is then divided into 10 chapters and 4 parts. Starting with Career Visionary, you plan out what you want to get from your career. The second part is all about what you are like now in your career, if you are a good colleague and add value to your role and how you can improve yourself here and now. Part 3 is about Brand Building and how you stand out and networking. Finally, there’s three chapters on Opportunity Seeker about how to hit the ground running, whether you are limiting your own choices and how you are going to get to where you want to be.
I said this is a high-level book and that’s because it’s really deep and probably suits someone who is on their second job at least, but this works for those who are right at the top of their careers too. The chapters have exercises to do with typically need a lot of thought and perhaps a few days to get your ideas in order before you answer the questions, then there’s examples and stories of several very successful people known to the authors. Working within the whole Career Edge Model, you can build on what you’ve learned in this book over time and go back and make changes but more importantly, you can read the book again and start over in a new industry, new leadership or just a whole new job.
I highly recommend Move Up Or Move On as a way of developing your sense of self in your job or career at least, but if you really want to fly and get higher up the ladder, only the kind of advice in this book, or a career coach, will be able to help you. Incidentally, it will probably make you a better colleague and happier too.
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