KISS Guide to Managing Your Career

Dorling Kindersley rrp $29.95
Become an expert overnight and an obsessive in just a week. These easy-to-use reference guides will take you from beginner through to experienced, as you follow the guide at your own pace. This month we feature The KISS Guide to Managing Your Career.

This book is ideal for anybody looking to further their potential in the increasingly competitive job market, or simply to enhance their position in current, professional and personal environments. From polished employee to school leaver, there are features in this guide, which make it, the only guide you'll ever need to manage a successful and happy career.

How to define what motivates you and what you are good at

Recipes for career values
How to develop your career action plan
Five keys to entrepreneurial success
How to develop and launch a new business, acquire an existing business or franchising
Consulting Independent contracting and temping
How to set goals and work towards them
Presenting yourself in print including the rules and no-no's of putting together your CV.
Presenting yourself in person and strategies for effective interviewing
Attitudes to adopt and blunders to avoid
Dealing with politics
Managing your reputation
The importance of Networking

This book is the perfect reference guide for anyone wanting to identify their career values and skills, change careers or improve their networking, interviewing and presentation skills.

Here's an excerpt fromTHE KISS GUIDE TO MANAGING YOUR CAREER, just a taste of the crucial advice you are going to need, to remain professionally competitive.

CV No No's from Chapter 16 Managing yourself in print

• Don't label your CV with the word CV. Your reader will know what it is.
• Don't include salary history or information. Save that for personal or conservative interviews
• Don't include personal statistics - leave out your age, height, weight, health, marital status and parenthood status. It's illegal for prospective employers to ask for that information, so there is certainly no need to volunteer it.
• Don't include references, or write that they are available for request, that's obvious. When an employer wants to contact your references, he or she will ask you for them.
• Don't include your photograph unless you are an actor or a model. Its illegal to make hiring decisions based on looks alone, so don't invite an employer to break the law.
• Don't include Hobbies or interests unless they support your career objective. Save these for networking and interviews, and use them to enrich your conversation.