"The way we work has changed. Employees are standing up for themselves and demanding their job work for them, too. With so much of life spent at our jobs and with our coworkers, who can blame them? Here, the author shares what she's learned in her decades of helping others grow and succeed across professions. Readers will find relatable true stories--at once funny, sad, shocking, and inspiring--of former clients' issues and interactions at work. Everyone wants a job that fulfills them, that pays them what they are worth. But, contrary to the popular hustle culture mindset, our jobs are not our whole lives, and we shouldn't be pressured to let thoughts of work consume all our waking hours. Rather, workers of all levels need to be proactively seeking to define their value, in both their personal and professional lives. Now more than ever individuals and professionals need to rely on not only their work experience, but their moxie as well."--
Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You’ll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path. Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you’re really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she’s helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want. You’ll also find: Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life A must-read guide to a complex employment arena, Career Confidence will earn a place on the bookshelves of job seekers, interviewers, career changers, and professionals everywhere.