The Business of Me

Your career is your most important economic asset. Your compensation, the value you create from this asset, provides the path to achieving the best that life can offer—the home you want to own, the car you want to drive, the education you want for your children, and the financial security you want to achieve during your working and retirement years. Creating personal value has become quite a challenge for today’s business professionals. Corporate downsizing, outsourcing, and restructuring as well as rapid changes in the business environment have resulted in career management issues such as:  Maintaining employment  Finding a job  Getting pay raises  Getting promoted  Landing new career opportunities Career challenges have not gone unnoticed. There is an abundance of career management data available from numerous sources including career counselors, coaches, and the Internet as well as from career advice books. Do you feel overloaded, bombarded, and even confused by all the data coming at you from so many sources? Are you spending a lot of time searching for information or purchasing books, audio tapes, and CDs to address your specific career management challenges and situations? Do you feel that you are going in circles— doing a lot, but achieving very little? The Business of Me provides an innovative an efficient approach to addressing your career management challenges and needs. The Business of Me will help you optimize the use of your time, money and other resources to generate value from your career. The Business of Me Process is based on the proven and age-old process that businesses use to create value—the Business Management Process. In addition to a personal value-creating process, The Business of Me provides a “virtual filing cabinet” organized to relate information directly to your specific career management situations and needs including:  Developing and executing a career plan  Re-launching your career  Creating awareness of what you can offer  Planning and conducting your job search  Getting connected to career opportunities  Standing out in a crowded job market  Getting hired  Improving your standing for promotion and retention in your company  Networking  Managing your job performance  Staying competitive in the employment marketplace  Identifying opportunities to grow your compensation Just like success in business, career success requires having the right information to take the right steps at the right time. The Business of Me can enable you to shift from being managed by data to managing information to maximize the return on your most important economic asset—your career.