The Career Book - Help for the Restless Realist

The Career Book - Help for the Restless Realist: A mercifully waffle-free guide for post-Celtic Tiger times, The Career Book is nothing short of a must-read for anyone either contemplating career transition or embarking on a career for the first time - foreword by internationally acclaimed author Edward De Bono

	Jane has been invited by Choices2012 Expo in the RDS to choose the seminar lineup and to run the careers clinic this Tuesday March 6th. Check out the topics at http://www.choicesexpo.com/seminars.html - The Choices2012 Expo runs in the RDS from Tuesday 6th March to Thursday 8th March.

	Orpen Press is delighted to announce the publication of an updated edition of The Career Book, a waffle-free careers guide for post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. This updated edition boasts a new section containing top tips for students on how to approach issues like work experience, getting the most out of university careers services and looking to postgraduate study - the updated edition of The Career Book can be purchased online by clicking here

Jane Downes is founder of Clearview Coaching Group, which was established in 2004 following an extensive career working within the area of recruitment and HR consulting. Jane also co-owns Ireland’s first Assessment and Coaching Centre for Emotional Intelligence.

The book is written in a distinctive style and voice – direct, honest, waffle-free, empathetic, irreverent, and more than happy to bust myths and clichés. At the heart of The Career Book is the insight that a person cannot be reduced to a persona or a ‘brand’.

Disappointment. It is the verse, chorus, instrumental break and repeat chorus I hear over and over again in my work as a career coach. Sometimes clients may not actually use the word ‘disappointment’. They may complain of boredom, frustration, thwarted ambition, fearfulness or resentment.


	Listen to Jane Downes discussing her book and giving career advice in this recent radio interview - click here

	Jane Downes invited to speak at the prestigious Dublin Book Festival: YOUR CAREER AND PERSONAL FINANCES: GETTING BACK ON TRACK - Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley, Jane Downes Friday 4 March 11.15am: Up for Discussion, Main Stage, City Hall - Admission Free – no booking necessary! COLM RAPPLE’S personal finance guide Family Finance has been an annual best seller since first published in 1977. He is a journalist by profession having been at various times in his career business editor of The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent and The Irish Press Group. He writes on economic and personal finance topics in The Irish Mail on Sunday, The Irish Daily Mail and The Irish Examiner. BRENDAN FOLEY is a life and business coach who, through his company Seachange Training, has worked with 1,000’s of people and 100’s of companies in Ireland and the UK to help them create meaningful success. He is the author of the Yin Yang Complex (Mercier Press) and his forthcoming book, The 5 States of Success; Tools for Meaningful Success in your Career, Business and Life launches in July 2011 (Mercier Press). JANE DOWNES is one of Irelands best known Career Coaches and author of, The Career Book– Help for the Restless Realist. She owns Clearview Coaching Group, a Career Coaching and Training business, which she established in 2004 following an extensive career working in the area of recruitment and HR consulting. In addition, Jane regularly writes for the national press and is invited to speak on national radio. Jane held the position of weekly Career Expert in 2010 on TV3’s The Morning Show.

	The Career Disappointers This book is written as a guide to breaking your appointment with disappointment on the career front. Accordingly, I am most anxious that it not add to your litany of disappointments by itself disappointing you. So I must ask you not to bring to this book a set of false expectations. Perhaps you have already gone through a veritable forest of ‘self-help’ books? If so, then how about we try and make this your last, OK?

	Career Appointers/Disappointers at a glance Browse through Jane's model of Career Appointers and Disappointers at a glance, and see if you can find yourself in any of these cleverly constructed categories.

	Example of a Career Upgrade So how might a client of Jane's go about exploring the possibility of upgrading their career? We have of course already seen lots of examples in action in the Disappointer profiles, but let’s focus on this phase of career management in its own right.

	Free Toolkit Resources Appendix A and Appendix B of The Career Book are available online, two toolkits that will hep you self-assess your life and career