Seven Steps to a Successful Career: A Guide to Employability / Edition 1

by Lucinda Becker, Felicity Becker

Overview

Your quick-fix guide to maximising your skills and employability at university and beyond, planning your dream career and winning your ideal job.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473919426
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Student Success
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lucinda Becker is Professor of Pedagogy and an award-winning lecturer and tutor at the University of Reading. She has dedicated her professional life to creating independent learners who are confident in themselves intellectually, professionally and personally. Lucinda has written numerous study guides for students and works with undergraduates and postgraduates across the university. She is also a professional trainer and consultant, helping new graduates in engineering, science and law to become successful communicators and leaders.

Felicity Becker is a lecturer at the University of Reading and also runs a private training company with Anastasia Becker. She is currently working on her Ph D. Within her teaching she is passionate about students recognising and applying their transferable skills in and beyond their university experience. She is the author of Boost Your Employability (SAGE, 2020) and co-author with Lucinda Becker of Seven Steps to a Successful Career (SAGE, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Step One: Knowing who you are in the career market
Step Two: Making your skills work for you
Step Three: Considering all of your options
Step Four: Researching the career market
Step Five: First approaches
Step Six: Making Your Move
Step Seven: Closing the deal
Conclusion: Learning to enjoy it

Editorial Reviews

An excellent, practical career development guide for students and career changers alike, packed with useful resources and exercises. The 7-step approach makes for easy, selective use. This is a perfect guide for the modern job-hunter who needs answers quickly!

Irena Jennings

A mother and daughter co-authorship providing a sympathetic, yet pragmatic, guide to all aspects of career development. The authors have structured the book to maximise efficiency for the reader, yet simultaneously include thought-provoking questions and insightful discussion of thorny issues. An invaluable read, packed with resources and underpinned by a true passion for and expertise in employability.

Helen Standage

It is an ideal read for undergraduate and postgraduate students who need a boost in employability, need advice to handle career challenges and need to develop and promote their professional attributes (skills, experience and qualities). It is the kind of book that ESP teachers, or any teacher in higher education, might consider referring to their students who are about to finish their studies. It is even a more essential book for those international students or career changers who wish to find a career in the UK since the book is full of websites that give very specific advice about careers and employment in the UK.

Balbina Moncada Comas