Corporate World and Beyond: Survive and grow in the corporate world and venture beyond to create new income streams

By Evelyn Tan

This easy to read book is to help you in navigating the current corporate world and grow your career. There are insights on survival skills of managing up and down, how to recognize different personalities in your company who could help or harm you, get a good appraisal and socio-media skills. It like having a career coach in your pocket to thrive in your career. This book also equipped you with the options available beyond the corporate world to build income streams, should you lost your job. I have included a bonus section on how to manage a woman boss as women are becoming prominent in the corporate world. This is the book you must read for your survival and thrive in the corporate world and beyond. It also has over thirty illustrations to simplify the information

• Language: English
• Publisher: National Library of Malaysia
• Release date: May 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9789671819845

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Corporate World and Beyond

Survive and grow in the corporate world and venture beyond to create new income streams.  Bonus section of how to manage a woman boss

By

Evelyn Tan

Preface

We are entering into a new world, where working in a corporate does not offer as much stability as in the past.  Position come and go like a candle in the wind.  The corporate world had become a very competitive playing field as everything changes like flickering fire in the new world.  Walking into a corporate battlefield unprepared will cause a downward spiral in your career and threaten your livelihood.  Advancement in technology such as artificial intelligence had also threatened corporate job security where employment for life is almost nonexistence anymore.  Having one income stream is like putting all the eggs in one basket.

This book is to prepare you for different stages of your journey through the corporate world career and beyond, starting from the moment you graduate. It covers all the basic survival skills which include, understanding core human personality, identifies potential noblemen and petty people, negotiate for pay rise, how to acquire updated knowledge to thrive in the corporate world.  Besides corporate career skills, this book intends to present you with options of building income streams using digital platforms beyond the corporate world and post-retirement.  Building a side-hustle will enhance your impact to serve and provide secondary income for your financial security a better future for your loved ones.  There is also a section in this book to understand different individual financial approach.

There is a bonus section on working for a female boss as high position woman in the corporate world had become a norm.  How to manage a woman boss is an essential survival skill to have in the next 20 years.

Corporate World and Beyond

Copyright © 2021 by Evelyn Tan

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13 : 9789671819845

1st Edition (ebook) 19 May 2021

Published by CMTan Penang

About Evelyn Tan: Trainer, consultant & author     

Evelyn is an engineering and management professional who are well versed in the study of human personality and the Chinese metaphysics life energy system. Her career has progressed from an engineer to a member of senior management for over 30 years in the corporate world. She had worked with hundreds of companies around the world from Asia,  North America to Brazil during her career as a supplier management professional.

During her career she had mentored her subordinates to progress in their career by guiding them on how to manage the stakeholders personality, get visibility in the top management and learn, unlearn and relearn to become a better version of themselves.  She had equipped her mentees with the mindset of how to prepare emotionally and financially due to unforeseen loss of employment. This includes options that are available beyond the corporate world to build income streams, how to get visibility in social media and an approach that is aligned with their personality towards a new beginning. 

She will share some of the technics where she uses personally to gain traction in her career such as job-hopping, social media visibility and acquiring knowledge to become content that can be used to create products and contribute to individual growth in this book.

You are welcome to join her telegram channel, side gig life energy, where she will give insights such as how to navigate Linkedin and social media strategy. 

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Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my beloved mother and my daughter who had been a source of inspiration in my life.

Table of Contents

Preface

Dedication

Chapter 1.  Job Hunting process

Chapter 2.  Your First Job

Chapter 3.  Performance Evaluation

Chapter 4. Learn, unlearn and relearn

Chapter 5.  Negotiate for a Pay Rise

Chapter 6.  Visibility on socio-media

Chapter 7. Climbing the corporate ladder

Chapter 8.  Job hoping

Chapter 9.  Planning for the unforeseen

Chapter 10.  Knowledge is power

Chapter 11.  Build Multiple income streams beyond the corporate

Chapter 12.  Optimized what you have earned

Chapter 13.  What is Next

Bonus section 1: Working for a Women Boss

Bonus section 2: Personality test

List of Figures

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