Transition with Grace: A Job Search Guide

By Joanne Bowman

Rather than tell people how to write a cover letter and a resume, Transition with Grace: A Job Search Guide helps the reader explore job transitions on a personal level that may not otherwise be considered. The underlying message of the book is to encourage the reader to approach the job search more broadly, as an exercise in personal development while exploring the various components of a successful job search. The book also illustrates how the reader can cope with unexpected change within the context of employment and the job search.

About the Author

Joanne Bowman has spent her career in the field of Human Resources helping companies develop sound HR practices and helping employees bring their best to the world of work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781304365170

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Transition with Grace: A Job Search Guide

Transition with Grace: A Job Search Guide

Do you know what your next job will be?  How will you start the search and what will you search for?  Will it be a job that will provide a means to an end, such as providing the ability to pay the bills and saving for retirement? Or will it be a job that contributes to your ever-evolving life cycle?  Your career illustrates a continuum that runs throughout your life.  Changes in your career will often reflect changes in your life and what becomes important to you in these various life changes.  For instance, you may decide that working part time instead of full time will meet your needs, or you may decide that a career within a different industry is necessary.  Still, at other times you may decide that you want to climb the corporate ladder, so to speak.  Whatever your desire is at any particular time, you may decide that it is time to make those changes.

If you are unemployed you are no doubt hoping for a job, period.  The job search in this scenario will result in many of you saying, hire me and I will work.  Many of you in this category have work experience and skills that can be applied in many different work environments and/or industries.  There are others who are looking for that special, once in a lifetime opportunity to get the foot in the door.  Individuals in this category are more than likely recent college grads or re-entrants to the work environment.    No matter where you fall on this job search and career continuum, you still must search for a job and the end result will be directly proportional to the amount of effort, your attitude, and how consistent you are in your search.

This booklet is devoted to assisting you in your effort to secure the job you want, the job you know you can get and the job that could become the stepping stone to