Career Compass

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Summary: Best book in category
Review: Down-to-earth, practical guide for individuals to understand work marketplace, evaluate their situation, define and reach goals. Clearly written, engaging--the best book I've seen on the topic. Real life examples back up user-freindly information. I'm a career counselor myself and would recommend this to all clients and individuals seeking to steer their own course.

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Summary: Strategic solutions to career planning strategies.
Review: In Career Compass: Navigating Your Career Strategically In The New Century, Peggy Simonsen identifies six different workplace trends in the 21st Century, describing how such elements as teams and teamwork, the entrepreneurial model; "roles, not jobs", and global vision have dramatically modified the workplace of today. Building a successful career in the 21st Century job market requires flexibility, continuous learning and people skills. Career Compass offers self-tests, work sheets, descriptive charts, self management techniques and personal stories to help the reader define his or her personality type, job skills and deficits, work values, and goals, defining recommended future actions in career planning. A highly recommended resource career development reference, Career Compass will assist both employees and employers with strategic solutions in response to the many evolving needs of the marketplace.

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Summary: A well structured book on career management!
Review: The book has a number of exercises which would be useful to any reader who is doing self-diagnosis of his or her career strategy. Ms Simonsen has done a brilliant job of putting together in a single book a systematic approach to career planning.