EMERGING PROFESSIONALS

WHY THIS BOOK

This book is needed because emerging professionals require assistance getting prepared for the real world; that is, the world of employment.  By emerging professionals, I refer to college students who are about to graduate and seek full-time employment.  Emerging professionals include recent college graduates who are already fully employed.  Emerging professionals include graduate students who are seeking employment or just started working full-time.  Emerging professionals include high school students who have graduated and are working full-time instead of going to college.

Emerging professionals have two critical needs.  First, they need guidance transitioning from student to employee.  Moving from the structured student classroom to the unstructured work place environment is indeed a challenge.  Second, emerging professionals need help planning, building and protecting their careers.  This book provides emerging professionals with a comprehensive and structured program to manage these two critical needs.

This is the one book that emerging professionals should read as they enter the work place.  This book will provide emerging professionals with the knowledge, information and tools they need to build a strong foundation to support their career growth.  This book will educate emerging professionals on those critical things that must be done to plan, build and protect their long-term career interests.

Emerging professionals must begin to realize that their careers will last several years.  The analogy I like to use in this book is that careers are like running a marathon race.  However, I do not want emerging professionals to view this in a negative or painful way.  Instead, emerging professionals should be excited about the opportunities they will be presented with in life.

This book will help emerging professionals prepare themselves mentally for their long career journeys.  This book will provide emerging professionals with the strategies, tactics, rules, tools, exercises and lessons learned that they need to run a successful career marathon.

WHO BENEFITS

Certainly, the group of emerging professionals already identified will greatly benefit from the unique contents and structured program presented in this book.  In addition, there are other groups of individuals who will benefit from reading this book.

Parents who want to help their children succeed professionally will benefit from the information contained in this book.  Teachers, professors, advisors and counselors who work closely with students on career matters will benefit from the program presented in this book.  Companies who want to enhance their training programs for new college recruits will benefit from the contents of this book.  Finally, anyone who is already fully employed and needs to jump-start or tune-up their career plans will benefit from this book.

Anyone who is serious about their careers and want a structured program to help them plan, build and protect their career interests will benefit from this book.  Anyone who is interested in learning about those critical things they must do  throughout their long career journey will benefit from this book.

Here is the bottom-line.  If you plan on a long-term career, this book will help ensure your success in the work place.  This book will not guarantee success but will help you manage the obstacles and landmines you will encounter along the road.  This book is a cost-effective lifelong insurance policy written to help protect your career.