Kerry Ahrend

Project Career Quest

Navigating the Journey to New Opportunities Waiting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

ARE YOU ON A QUEST FOR A MORE FULFILLING CAREER? Lost your job due to yet another layoff, merger, or acquisition; looking for your first professional job and totally lost in the process; or about to lose your mind and know it's time to look for a new job? NOW what? Finding meaningful employment and career satisfaction can be a frustrating and long drawn out process without a roadmap and someone to help you navigate the journey. Project Career Quest offers a structured, practical approach to finding employment that is more purposeful, challenging, and engaging. Through proven best practices and lessons learned, the author helps the reader clarify their career goals, identify roadblocks, and map out a strategy to open doors to New Opportunities Waiting - NOW! Kerry combines her expertise as a certified project management professional (PMP®) and career coach to guide the reader through the job search process; providing the knowledge, resources, tools, and strategies needed for a successful journey. Project Career Quest includes all elements of the job search process including: - The emotional aspects and challenges to finding meaningful employment. - Getting to "know yourself" so you can make effective career decisions and "sell" yourself to a prospective employer. - Getting on the "radar screen" and communicating your accomplishments and value to others. - How to market yourself to influencers, recruiters, and hiring managers. - Exploring various options and opportunities including discovering your passion and purpose. - How to develop an effective, focused, and accomplishment-based resume. - Interviewing skills and strategies, interviewing questions and how to approach them, and how to negotiate to close the deal. - Approaching the first 90-days in your new position and on-going professional development needed to remain marketable in an ever-changing work environment. This book is relevant to both entry-level and seasoned professionals. And the 50+ career tools and templates that come with this guidebook. . . PRICELESS!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Author Academy Elite
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 651g
• ISBN-13: 9781640859128
• ISBN-10: 1640859128
• Artikelnr.: 59204536

Autorenporträt

Kerry Ahrend is a trainer, speaker, career coach, and certified project management professional (PMP®). She has travelled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and internationally delivering training and performance improvement interventions to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, non-profits, and small entrepreneurial enterprises in the best practices of project management, leadership development, team building, communications, negotiation skills, conflict resolution, and business process analysis. For over twenty years Kerry has worked with individuals and organizations to increase skills and competencies and help people meet their challenges with confidence. For the past ten plus years Kerry has used her knowledge of how to plan, execute, and deliver successful projects to coach those in transition. As a career coach, she has worked with one of the leading providers of career transition services in the world. She works with professionals and those in transition to assess their skills, strengths, core competencies, and other essential information to help map out a strategy to achieve their career goals. Kerry has a Master's Degree in Human Resources Training and Development; a Master's certificate in Project Management from George Washington University; a Project Management Professional (PMP¿) certification; and is a certified trainer, speaker, and coach with the John Maxwell Team. On the personal side, Kerry is an animal advocate and volunteers with several dog rescue groups (she's a cat lover too!) She fosters, fundraises, and coordinates events. She has worked with Special Olympics North Carolina (SONC) for over 18 years and participates in other volunteer activities through her church, alumni association, and other charitable organizations. Volunteering to help those in need is a passion of Kerry's and one of the inspirations and motivation for writing Project Career QUEST!