The career adventurer's fieldbook - Steve Coomber

Employment has changed.

Careers have changed.

· On average most people have been with their current employer for just 3.5 years.

· Between the ages of 18 and 32, the average worker has 8.6 different jobs.

· 40% of interviewees in a recent survey said they would change their career straight away given the chance.

· 50% of us will be self–employed by the year 2010.

What do these statistics tell us? It tells us that the world of work and how we understand our role within it is undergoing a major shift. A typical career is no longer a long hard slog through the ranks of a single organization. It is a series of career adventures: a journey towards career enlightenment. It is a search for the perfect fit between you and your work.

The Career Adventurer’s Fieldbook helps you through this journey, where career and life become intertwined. Stephen Coomber, Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer guide the career adventurer to base camp (acquiring the right level of knowledge and skills), then to your first destination (making sure you are hired by the organization you have selected, including insider tips about how employers select employees). It is packed with information, techniques, and advice from people who have dared to pursue their career aspirations. Some of them have reached the summit of those aspirations, while others are still striving. But what unites them all is their conviction that there should be more to working life than brain numbing, soul withering tedium.