"from Bedlam to Boardroom...How to get a derailed executive career back on track!"
by Colleen Aylward
From Bedlam to Boardroom lets the reader in on the new ground rules for creating essential visibility, and offers a detailed road-map with helpful examples, timelines and insider tips for becoming a niche authority and getting in front of hiring managers.
It is a rich resource that greatly increases the odds that an executive will be pursued as the targeted executive job candidate in today's market. And it is a how-to manual for adopting the essential new career-management practices necessary to maintain competitive advantage.
FROM THE AUTHOR:
After thousands of interviews in the 20 years of my retained recruiting practice, it is clear that Executive Job Seekers still rely on expert advice from the inside when faced with a recent or impending exit from a downsizing employer. And buying a book that empathizes with their situation, or points them to some immediate action plan is often their first step, especially when they can’t afford “the seminar” that may tell them the same things.
The 10 chapters in “from Bedlam to Boardroom” are filled with the competitive edge that I offer to these high level clients on a one-on-one basis. But it is evident that more and more executives are seeking this advice, after they have tried the traditional ways of job search and found them useless.
Angst-filled executives come to me in desperation at the eleventh hour, with doubts about their current value, because they have never before had to “look for a job.”
They wonder:
"What has happened?" "Am I no longer employable?" "Is this just a blip that will self-correct?" "When the economy comes roaring back, will the job search rules go back to what they once were?" "Will high-level generalists ever be back in demand?" "Am I still relevant? Viable?" "Will my next job come from my inner circle of business friends as usual, or is there some new game?"
After working together for a few hours, using the same practices that are now here in the book, my clients tell me, “I wish I would have known this 6 months ago.”
And that critical knowledge boils down to this:
The world is an online community now, and the future of your employment status is highly dependent on your ability to adapt.
Moving forward in your career is all about digitizing your brand now:
- Positioning yourself on the global internet as an expert in something;
- Becoming an authority online;
- Solving particular problems in a particular niche and letting the world know that you did it and can do it again;
- Creating a virtual network of business connections as your audience and as your support infrastructure;
- And making sure that you are found.
From Bedlam to Boardroom lets the reader in on the new ground rules for creating essential visibility, and offers a detailed roadmap with helpful examples, timelines and insider tips for becoming a niche authority and getting in front of hiring managers.
It is a rich resource that greatly increases the odds that an executive will be pursued as the targeted executive job candidate in today's market. And it is a how-to manual for adopting the essential new career-management practices necessary to maintain competitive advantage.
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