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In today's competitve jobs market it is essential that you manage your career successfully so that you can remain employable. Give yourself the edge and Master your Career
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Sean McLoughney
Welcome
“Slave to a Job, Master of your Career” is available
online
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
do you really want to remain employable?
no excuses, your responsibility...
I mean do you really want to remain employable?
read on……
then it’s time to start thinking like an entrepreneur in the workplace
what makes you truly exceptional?
Master of your Career…..
To be employable in today’s job market requires a new adaptable way of thinking and behaving. Slave to a Job, Master of your Career is a new book by Sean McLoughney that challenges people to change their mindset from being an employee to being an entrepreneur in the workplace. The book outlines how to adapt to the changing work environment by using practical business skills to find and keep the best jobs, while also bringing value to your employer.
This book sets out a step-by-step business approach that will ensure that you have the edge in the current job market, showing you how to:
• Think like an entrepreneur• Treat your employer as your most important customer• Grow your personal brand• Develop your skills, and• Devise a business plan to stay employable.
In the 21st century workplace, people will be expected to overcome new challenges, challenges that will require an entrepreneurial mindset and a fresh way of thinking. Slave to a Job, Master of your Career is written to help you take the first critical step to make yourself more marketable and employable, and to set yourself apart from the crowd.
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
“Slave to a job, Master of your Career is an insightful andholistic approach to the concept of employment providing avery useful set of tools to help the employee redefine his/her role and see the employer as their customer – an easy to read, step by step guide.”
Malachy Vallely, Director GeneralLeuven Institute for Ireland in Europe
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
OUTLINE OF THE BOOK
Chapter 1 It’s Your Career – Managing yourself like a business
Chapter 2 Planning Department: Your business plan to keep working
Chapter 3 Quality Assurance Department: Set yourself apart by
adding real value to your customer/employer
Chapter 4 Marketing Department: Protect your personal brand
Chapter 5 Research and Development Department: Your personal
development strategy and understanding your true value
Chapter 6 Sales Department: Networking your way to success
Chapter 7 Audit Department: Yesterday a slave, today a master
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
“I found Sean McLoughney’s new book to be a practical and an original guide on how to stay employed in today’s challenging economic climate. I strongly recommend that you read this book if you want to get the best from yourself and your job, and more importantly, if you want to enjoy what you do for a living.”
Brendan SpringChief ExecutiveFBD Financial Solutions
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
Do’s and Don’ts of managing your career today
DO:
Be a MasterMotivate yourself with SMARTER Goals
Utilise your ASSETS™ fully Improve a little every month
Seek out new opportunities to build your experience Keep yourself fresh and trendy
Use you 4/15 report to remain focused Make your current job work for you Use the 24-hour rule to kick-start your career Be employable
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Do’s and Don’ts of managing your career today
DON’T:
x Don’t Be a Slavex Don’t become complacent about your careerx Don’t under-value your ASSETS™ x Don’t let the seven deadly sins control your career and employabilityx Don’t forget to complete your monthly personal performance auditx Don’t be undecided about want you want from your careerx Don’t blame others if you are unhappy with your current positionx Don’t become unemployable
Apply one new idea every week to become more employable and successful
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
“And remember – if you take your eyes of your goals you will only see the barriers, and if you stop listening to your heart you will only hear negative thoughts. Be strong, be brave, be visionary, be happy, be a master of your career.”
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
turn your vision into an outstanding
business plan for your career
one eye on today, the other on tomorrow....
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
being employable is your business strategy
begin today, benefits tomorrow.... copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
achieve excellence andsuccess will follow you
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
action plan
• what am I going to start doing…...
• stop doing……
• doing more of…...
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to conclude….
• to be employable is your responsibility
• remember who your number 1 customer is
• be entrepreneurial in the workplace ….
and have fun doing it
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney
want more?
then it’s time to read “Slave to a Job, Master of your Career” which is available online, in bookstores and at www.learningcurve.ieor www.amazon.co.uk
copyright 2010 Sean McLoughney