Manage Your Own Career: Make It a Snapp

by Donald J. Hanratty and Dr Hanratty Donald J.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967777321
• ISBN13: 9780967777320
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: It's How Pub. Co.
• Length: 149 Pages

Customer Reviews

After you know WHAT you want, this book helps with the HOW..

I've been a devout follower of "What Color is Your Parachute?" ever since college...recommending it to folks who are ready to assess (for the first time, or once again) what the best fit is for them work-wise...This book, Manage Your Own Career: Make it a SNAPP (I'll refer to it as MYOC from here!), is a perfect complement to 'Parachute', after you have found the right job...helping you know what you can do to make your dream work personally fulfilling and successful...because just doing your dream work doesn't guarantee fulfillment and success!We are all our own 'career managers' and need to do so just like we would manage a project. That is what SNAPP is all about...practical tools to managing projects...and what a worthy project: our careers!You'll find the parallels drawn in this book quite surprising, including how to build teamwork into your 'project'! It makes perfect sense!But, instead, of MANAGING our careers, we tend to act as victims of fate and let whatever befalls us (promotions, demotions, layoffs, reassignments, etc.) just happen and go with the flow. This book will give you a whole different perspective and make you aware of things you can do to increase your real value to your organization and maximize your opportunities.It's easy to read, conversational, and very practical, with lots of exercises and tools. MYOC provides ideas and actual tools (worksheets, checklists, etc.!) for how to get the most out of your career. And if the SNAPP process works for you, check out their other books: Make it Happen! Snapp Your Way to Success in Business and in Life (a true project management 'how to' book) and Career Contuation: Make it a SNAPP (a how to guide for making career transitions: finding a job, starting a business, etc.).

Recommended reading for motivated and career-minded workers

Collaboratively written by Donald J. Hanratty (President, The Career Control Group, Inc.), and Ron Biagi and Teresa Eyres (Co-Founders, ITH - a management consulting company), Manage Your Own Career: Make It A Snapp is a fine, step-by-step guidebook that coaches the concerned reader on how to take charge and manage their career for success. The SNAPP plan (See It, Negotiate It, Act on It, Persist, and Praise the Team) is a straightforward, winning plan to advancement, achievement, and recognition. Manage Your Own Career is especially recommended reading for motivated and career-minded workers regardless of their chosen field of employment.

Career Self-Management...A Clear, Compact, Concise Approach

At last! In the midst of today's economic confusion and disillusionment with self-serving corporations, along comes a guide for career self-management that is clear, concise, compact, and makes sense. In today's "new world of employment", Manage Your Own Career presents the concept that enterprising employees with focused career aspirations should think of their employer as their "customer." The book presents one approach to successful career management using three essential attributes: an individual managing their own career must be "entrepreneural, excellent, and engaging."With these attributes as a base and using the SNAPP approach described in this and previous volumes by the same authors, the book proceeds to describe in no-nonsense language how to self-evaluate and how to take action. There are a wealth of practical success tips for reaching one's goals which include the expected tips for resumes and networking. However, to my delight, the authors have a "holistic" approach for the well-being of the reader including such tips as "keep fit" and "be nice to everyone".With over 25 years in the corporate world, I have written countless business plans, action plans, and quarterly reports. I have experienced a myriad of seminars, conferences, and books with "how to's" for success...however, only the authors of Manage Your Own Career could finally explain to me the difference between "Goals" and "Objectives"!