Best Selling Career and Job Search Book

HarperCollins publisher says…

“One of Australia’s bestselling career books now updated for the third time … ”

Since Surfing Your Horizons was first published it has been updated three times with an additional five reprints. What is the secret of the book’s success? Put simply, it is an inspirational guide to job hunting and career planning which delivers and produces results for all types of job seeker.

Finding and succeeding, in the career that’s right for you is one of the most important things you’ll ever have to do! Whether you are entering or returning to the workforce, or simply looking for a new challenge, Surfing Your Horizons is a practical and positive career guide that will give you the confidence to identify and secure your perfect job.

Get the first two chapters of the career and job search book SURFING YOUR HORIZONS free

In my many years of career training, I have found that job searching via networking and using your personal contacts to find employment is one of the most effective job search methods.  Some surveys have indicated that up to 50% of the workforce finds work via networking. Successful job searching via networking and personal contacts does not automatically happen.  You have to make it happen. It is important to know your strengths, weaknesses, experience, skills and what you can offer employers. You may have to undertake Career Development counselling. Read more

How prepared are you, if you were made redundant today? Is you resume ready to go…

What if you are called into the boss’s office only to be told that as result of the world financial crisis, there are going to be a number of people who have been made redundant and you’re on the list? Is your resume up-to-date?

Surveys tell us that:

• only 12% of the working population like their job and the organisation they work with,
• 31% just tolerate their job, but
• 57% of people go to work each day disliking their job and/or their company.

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“the overall reason why most people are not successful in finding a job is because they have never taken the time or the effort to learn career and job search skills”.  

As an employment professional who was responsible for employing thousands of people, it was very obvious that a large number of applicants were totally unprepared for the world of work and had never seriously researched what careers they would be suited to. How to reduce job search mistakes