Your First Job How to Make a Success of Starting Work and Ensure Your Early Years Are the Launch of a Successful Career

By Mark Blayney

Each year in the UK approximately half a million young people enter the world of work for the first time and begin to compete in their careers.

And how well new starters cope with the pressures and demands of these early years of work can help determine how successful a career they will go on to have, and how far they will reach.

But with Your First Job, new workers can get an unfair advantage over their contemporaries by quickly learning the real life techniques of how to manage people and work, things they may otherwise end up learning the hard way. It will help ensure they have the skills, for example, of how to say No, how to manage their time to be productive and efficient, and how to avoid the dangers of being overwhelmed and stressed out by the levels of work that can head their way if they don’t know how to manage the demands of people around them at work.

So for anyone concerned to help someone starting out at work, buy them a copy of Your First Job today so they can use the tools and techniques it will teach them to make a success of starting work and launching a successful career.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Blayney
• Release date: Mar 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9780995617056

Mark Blayney

Mark Blayney is a partner and co-founder of GPS Capital Limited a private equity business and is involved in a portfolio of trading businesses as investor, director or both. He sought a career in business rescue and turnaround from the outset, obtaining an MBA, and then an accountancy qualification and insolvency license while working for PwC’s business recovery service in both the UK and Tanzania, where he ran a match making business and set up a corporate recovery practice. Having been seconded into one of the UK clearing banks and been involved in starting up a turnaround practice within PwC, he left to go into industry, before setting up in business as an independent executive and finance professional in 2000. He is the author of a number of practical guide books for business owners on strategy, management, finance, and creating and realising business value, and has been actively involved in business training and education having spoken at a number of leading UK business schools.

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