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The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable. In this fully revised and updated edition of I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone - whether you're unhappy with your job, or without one - can implement a real and satisfying transformation. Changing careers, conducting a job search, or starting a business is more complicated than ever before. Jansen has updated her classic guide to address the unique challenges of today's job market, from the ever-more important world of social media to new ways of funding your own endeavors online.
About the Author
Julie Jansen - motivational speaker, career and executive coach, resume and LinkedIn profile writer, and meeting facilitator - works with leaders, managers, senior contributors and entrepreneurs in developing the competencies, skills and techniques needed to thrive in today's extremely chaotic business world.
Prior to starting her own business in 1999, Julie worked in a variety of industries including broadcasting, outplacement, consulting, training and recruiting for Post News Week, Drake Beam Morin, Manchester Partners and Provant. Julie's industry experience includes advertising, consumer products, entertainment, fashion, financial services, logistics, magazine publishing, manufacturing, new media, non-profit, public relations, and professional services.
Julie has identified eleven qualities that she considers fundamental to business and career success. These "Eleven Keys" are the basis for her coaching and dynamic, no-nonsense presentations on networking, leadership and management, career management, communication, executive presence, and time management.
Julie has been quoted in numerous publications including Fortune, Forbes, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Essence, and WSJ.com. She has been interviewed on the Today Show, ABC World News Now, MSNBC, NPR, CNN Financial News and many other television and radio stations across the United States.
A fully updated, third edition of her first book, I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work was published in the U.K., Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Romania and was released by Penguin in March, 2016. You Want Me to Work With Who? Eleven Keys to a Stress-Free, Satisfying and Successful Work Life...No Matter Who You Work With was also published by Penguin Books. Julie is the author of a Workplace Coach e-book series on Networking, Enhancing Your Image, Delegation, Managing Your Career, Time Management and Getting Organized.
Julie earned a B.A. in Mass Communications from the University of Hartford. She is a career coach, resume reviewer and speaker for Cancer and Careers.org (www.cancerandcareers.org) .
