Jump-Start Your Career

You’ve just graduated college and embarked on your first “real” job. Now you’re asking yourself “How will I do this for the next forty years?” What you need is a jolt of encouragement. While work is not life it can be rewarding and noteworthy—even a calling.Jump-Start Your Career is not a book of tips on resume writing and interviewing or steps you should take to ascend the corporate ladder. It doesn’t tell you how to explain the gaps in your resume how to negotiate your salary or when to ask for a raise. You won’t learn how to exit a company without burning a bridge. In sum it’s not a how-to manual.Instead this is a guidebook to help shape who you are as a person which in turn can shape your career. You’ll learn how to• Identify the overarching theme that gives your life meaning• Map out your career by finding your “area of exploration”• Abandon inconsequential goals• Concentrate more on getting the job done and less on getting credit