by Bruce Blackstone Hazen (Author)
STOP FINDING JUST ONE-JOB-IN-A-ROW and start owning your career with this much needed and unique approach to career management. The book is packed with, assessments to help you jump into the process, exercises to tease out your thoughts and feelings and lots of stories about other peoples' career questions and how they answered them....or didn't. Already feel like you've been wandering through the last few jobs? If you're 28 - 58 years old, you've had enough experience to realize some of the less than perfect ways the market place treats talent. Why not leverage your talent and the work options you have available by managing them instead of reacting to them. Maybe it's time to move up in your profession but first you need to adapt your style of working instead of pulling the rip cord again and exiting your job when things begin to feel a little awkward. For the emerging college undergraduate or graduate student; start thinking strategically about your career now, not after you've wandered for a decade and become frustrated with the lack of plan and the mediocre jobs you're landing. There are some strategic things you can do starting tomorrow. Answering the Three Career Questions makes sure you're asking the right questions about your career at this time. Only then can you be sure you're pursuing answers worth having. Check out the Career Tornado on p. 11 and see if you're spinning up the same conversations in your head and wasting your valuable time doing so. Each of the Three Questions has a chapter dedicated to helping you develop your strategic answer to that question. The book opens with a Quick Pre-Test to help you determine what might be the most compelling question for you at this time. Answering the Three Career Questions will stay around your office as your "flight manual" for career management. The importance of each of these questions will shift and change throughout your career and you'll want to refer to the book again and again. You will need to answer The Three Questions more than once throughout your career. It's not because you got the answer wrong the last time but because you are a dynamic talent in a dynamic market place and things change constantly. When they do, you need to revisit the questions for a fresh approach to managing your career. Be sure to check into the last chapter Leveraging Professional Associations in Your Career Management Strategy. You'll find one of the biggest professional ironies explained as well as tips for what to do about it. We all join professional associations to further our careers. But have you noticed that once you actually join in the activities of most associations, the topic of "career management" is never even mentioned much less made part of the meeting agendas or the association's services available to you. It seems like you're on your own, but now it comes with annual dues. Not anymore. Read about specific things you can do to further you career strategy by being in a professional association. The book even breaks it down to things you can do depending on which of The Three Questions you're working on. This book will leave you thinking about and managing your career in ways that are more contemporary than serial job-finding. It brings you the new physics of how careers work and how to harness the energy of your employer or clients to develop and position yourself more consciously for the next opportunity - and the one after that. Answering The Three Career Questions offers a compelling career management system of interlocking questions that act as your internal guidance system to direct your career over a lifetime - STARTING NOW.
Author Biography
Bruce Hazen's career, training, and experiences represent a managed process that has: -built on previous lessons and experiences -diversified skills and perceptions -stayed professionally and geographically flexible This represents a contemporary example of development and the shift from "jobs" to an emphasis on doing the "work" that is needed by organizational clients, communities, and individuals. It enables him to speak of and demonstrate principles important to the field of career management, organizational leadership, and the process of change and transition in leadership coaching. He has real and extensive professional experiences guiding his observations and recommendations about this important topic. CURRENT WORK: As a career and management consultant, Bruce combines business systems experience with his clinical understanding to address the needs of individuals, in a range of different professions, who are managing other people, organizations, and their own career development. He is the President of Three Questions Consulting in Portland, OR. He is the coauthor of the Chapter on Career Coaching in The Complete Handbook of Coaching ( Second Edition 2014) and is a contributor to Business Model You: A One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career (2012). Bruce has a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, with emphasis in organizational behavior and psychology. In addition, he holds a Masters Degree of Science in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Jose, and is active within the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and the Oregon Career Development Association. PERSONAL STATEMENT: Here are a couple of things that really matter to me. Speaking to large audiences and teaching are my favorite indoor sports and it's fun - for me and the audience. Focusing and accelerating organizations and other coaches in their capacity to understand and manage talent is crucial. I do it for the benefit of all involved; including the employees who are moving up, moving out or adapting their style for greater success and who are the ultimate sources of real production. The nobility of work in all its forms is my fascination. Always has been. I've watched it become a passion, a pain, an inspiration, a consolation and an obsession for many. If I can help you get it right for you or your organization at this time, I'm pleased and rewarded.