Career Crisis Plan
Learn new job hunting skills and how to effectively respond to redundancy during an economic downturn
by Philip Kent-Hughes
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Pub Date 8 Oct 2020 | Archive Date 15 Mar 2021
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Description
This book was specifically written to help people who lost their job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By reading this book readers will:
• Learn how to rebuild their career, get any job to pay the bills, or create a plan for a new and better career.
• Find out some ways to identify and manage stressors, reduce the impact on relationships and recover emotionally from job loss
• Be provided with options to improve their financial situation after job loss, this includes budgeting, reducing expenses and how to approach lenders to decrease payments
• Go through the process of generating ideas for a possible new career and how to test if this is right for them
• Learn a range of new techniques, proven to improve their job hunting results
• Discover the secrets of resume writing that will help them get past automated screening systems and how to use keywords to stand out in the selection process
• Receive easy-to-use tools and templates that will save time through planning and progress tracking. These include: Personal budget, job action plan, job application tracker, career ideas development, and new career plan.
• Learn several methods of personal promotion
• Find out how weak and strong connections can help transform networking to attain their desired job
• Learn tips to be better prepared for interviews and be able to answer questions more confidently
• Discover how to increase their confidence and commitment to achieve short and long-term goals
The aim of this book is to help them to create their own career success while improving their happiness and well-being.
Advance Praise
Booklife by Publishers Weekly
Review
In this timely and informative volume, Australian author Philip Kent-Hughes lays out a sensible roadmap for the newly unemployed reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic and its accompanying economic downturn. Kent-Hughes himself lost his job as a result of the pandemic—and given that it wasn’t his first time being made redundant, he decided to leverage his expertise in writing crisis management plans for large organizations to provide a blueprint for the newly unemployed. Aiming to give shell-shocked readers the ability to take a deep breath and plunge back into job hunting, Kent-Hughes methodically explains how to explore new career options if the reader’s current industry is devastated, ways to manage finances and inevitable stressors while job seeking, and methods for filling resumés with keywords that will entice prospective employers (and make it past automated screening systems).
Kent-Hughes organizes his book in an easy-to-understand format, assisting readers looking for a specific topic (such as emergency and crisis planning, interviews, creating resumes, and developing new career paths) to immediately find it. He also includes eminently practical tools, such as budgeting and application tracking templates, and lists career-minded websites (including Indeed and LinkedIn) designed to propel job leads.
Kent-Hughes’s empathetic tone will go a long way toward calming spooked readers who are worried about both their paychecks and the virus. Any reader trying to muscle through pandemic-related unemployment will find practical, plainspoken, and logical advice in Kent-Hughes’s well-written guide.
Takeaway: Kent-Hughes’s empowering counsel will give readers the confidence and the tools needed to seek new jobs and to overcome the anxiety of sudden unemployment.
Great for fans of: Richard Nelson Bolles’s What Color is Your Parachute?, Steve Dalton’s The Two-Hour Job Search, Jon Acuff’s Do Over.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780648930006 |
| PRICE | US$14.99 (USD) |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Librarian 555404
This book is a great guide and booster for those who have lost a job and/or lacking the motivation to move forward. It would be an excellent gift for people who have graduated during the pandemic.
Louise F, Reviewer
In CAREER CRISIS PLAN, Philip Kent-Hughes has meshed personal experience, hard-earned business expertise, and compassionate straight talk into an accessible, actionable, and wise guide for those suffering job loss and/or wanting to shift gears in their career. In clear, forthright prose, he offers a way out of the confusion, doubt, and stunned disbelief that often result when facing loss, unexpected, dreaded, or anticipated. I felt wiser and better capable as a result of the read and deeply appreciate his delving into his own brutal experience to help those of us affected by the lockdowns and other abrupt, horrific endings to the way we thought things were when we imagined we were in charge of our fates. He puts the individual back in charge of their fate and walks alongside with encouragement, tools, techniques, and perspectives that will help in all life circumstances. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my unbiased review.
Saju K, Reviewer
Thank you Netgalley for sharing this book in return for a honest review.
This book has got practical and good implementable advices for people who are searching for a job or a career change. Though this book is being pushed for those who have lost their job during the current pandemic the tips and detailed description of the path to be taken during job search is comprehensive enough to be used at any stage. Across the book Kent-Hughes has also included useful templates for budgeting, tracking your application status and useful links to job boards.
This is s useful guide for any individual who is looking for or considering a job change and I'd definitely recommend this book.
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