Why reading this employability book will inspire you

Learning to Leap is a timely, practical guide to being more employable whatever your working age.  The book gives you the common set of personal attributes, skills and knowledge that every employer wants.  Read what buyers say here.                                         

Is the book for me?

This book is for anyone who:

  • is entering the workplace for the first time
  • has been made redundant or is returning to work
  • wants to change job or is at a career crossroad
  • is seeking promotion
  • is in transition from one role to another
  • is interested in personal development and employability

How will I benefit?

The book helps you have a tough conversation with yourself and I’ve written it in a way that feels like I’m alongside you in a 1-to-1 so you’re not on your own.  It’s a very practical book with lots of exercises, case studies and reports to back it up. It’s not just navel gazing, it does equip you for taking action. If you walk away more impressed with yourself than the book, then I know I will have succeeded.  By learning to leap, you will be rewarded by

  • giving employers greater confidence in your quality as a candidate or an existing employee
  • making more informed decisions for your career and future direction
  • helping you make the most of yourself so they can describe the kind of person you are and make links with personal strengths and achievements
  • enhancing your employability prospects so you can present yourself authentically and confidently to current or prospective employers

 What approach does the book take?

Everyone has the potential to offer more.  Most of us will never be the complete article and we often hold ourselves back for a million reasons, usually to do with fear or a lack of confidence in our abilities or we simply don’t know how.

The focus is on what you have going for you rather than what you haven’t.   The book takes a coaching approach – supporting and challenging your thinking to build confidence as you take each step along the way, encouraging personal responsibility for action, holding you to account for what you say you’re going to do.

It’s also takes a mentoring approach for when ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’, bringing my personal experiences in as well as those of others I’ve come across.

The book is structured like a window with four glass panes and you go on a journey looking through each pane to see what employability opportunities exist for you.  Each of the four panes has a focus:

                                            Employability Window

How will reading this book help me?

I’ve created a unique Employability Dashboard for you to assess yourself against 8 main areas, broken down into 35 sub-areas.  The book explores all of them and so you can keep assessing how you’re doing against them as you go along.  You can keep coming back to it when your career takes another turn.

Let me know how you get on!