Title: Choosing a lasting career
Description: People choosing a career have a lot of information available, but almost all fits in only 3 categories: personality assessment, job-hunting tactics, and?best jobs? listings, all of which present only today?s situation. What will happen with specific work opportunities, though, over the next two decades, after which most of today?s new college graduates will not have even reached middle age? Choosing a Lasting Career: The Job-by-Job Outlook for Work?s New Age answers that question. It starts by showing that while the jobs crisis is permanent and will not end with better times, careers will not be affected uniformly. The book then presents a broad set of factors likely to affect how work opportunities will fare over the next two decades, including 20 general principles. It provides an extensive series of tables, including its own?Best Jobs,? with criteria important to some but not others such as compatibility with a family life and outside projects. Next is a catalog of 506 different jobs, each rated in 11 different future-leaning categories. It also considers self-employment as it actually is, and describes spectacular events in progress or arriving soon, which will not only affect careers profoundly but have the potential to obliterate them completely. Choosing a Lasting Career fills two critical gaps. First, it answers the question of what job or career you should opt for if you already know what suits you and are grounded in the strategy and tactics of being hired. No other book fits better on a shelf between Sweaty Palms and What Color is your Parachute. Second, it improves on the present-only orientation of other career materials by daring to look, specifically and incisively, at years beyond the 2010s. It is valuable not only for those seeking opportunities after graduation, but for others who want to invest their time and money in a long-term position that will not be swept away by automation, globalization, efficiency, or other factors we cannot ignore.
Subjects: Occupations, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Vocational guidance, Careers, General