Riding the Rocket

How to control your career and ensure that you keep working and in the manner that you would like to


Description

Riding the Rocket means managing your Modern Career. This is the only book in this genre that uses the unique concept of a Modern Career to guide people. It’s a practical ‘how to’ book, giving people the tools and motivation to create opportunities for themselves. People need to self-manage their career in order to keep working and this book is here to enable them to do so.

 

Like rockets, careers can be unpredictable, require fine tuning, need maintenance and above all need someone to control their direction and speed. We have to be to be proactive, resilient and adaptable and manage our career so that it works for us and gives us the working life that we want.

 

The working world is full of risk, change and uncertainty …and also opportunity. Compared to the static career-ladder approach of the post-war era, we now live in a Modern Career world where technology, globalisation and economic rebuilding are giving people the opportunity to create and manage a flexible career for themselves. We can all choose to retrain, change industries, set up our own business, work as a consultant or create a portfolio lifestyle.


About the author

Richard Maun is visiting fellow at a leading UK university and a highly experienced career and leadership coach, who knows what people need to get them moving, increase their confidence and make them more successful. He also lectures on career matters and communication skills at business schools and other institutions and works with a range of senior teams in the private sector. He is the author of several business books, which have been sold around the world and his popular weekly soft-skills blog can be found at www.richardmaun.com .