Decision Time: A Guide to Career Enhancement Review

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(More customer reviews)"'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a question that evokes a range of emotions and responses. It can intimidate or motivate us, embarrass us or evoke pride." --Michael Shahnasarian
Throughout my career I've often contemplated this question. As a career coach and consultant, I help others discover more about their preferences, skills, and values in order to create a professional and personal life consistent with who they are. Decision Time has positively reshaped my thinking about career planning and has provided me with valuable tools in my roles as a business professional, coach, consultant, and college professor.
In eight chapters, Dr. Shahnasarian shares his valuable insight and expertise. In Chapter 2, he offers a simple career decision model to guide the reader's learning throughout the rest of the book. The five-step model is:
Step 1: Looking within yourself
Step 2: Exploring your options
Step 3: Making your decision
Step 4: Career planning
Step 5: Moving ahead
Chapter 6 provides helpful career management tips encouraging professionals to approach their career with confidence, focus, courage, passion, power, initiative, and a willingness to ask for help.
The writing style is animated, easy-to-read and personalized, appropriate for individual readers or for students taking a college career development course. The chapters are well-organized and build upon each other with interactive and reflective activities to keep the reader engaged and active in the learning process. The five-step decision model represents a lifelong tool for career planning.
Overwhelmed by work and family, we rarely dedicate time to develop a deliberate career strategy. Instead, we wait until we're forced to rethink our career direction after being downsized, suffering a toxic boss, or accepting a promotion which doesn't suit our talents and preferences. Dr. Shahnasarian shows us that a better path exists if we are willing to look within ourselves in order to define our goals, interests, skills, priorities and alternative options.
Armchair Interviews highly recommends this book for professionals in career transition, college students evaluating their career path, or faculty who teach career development and desire a useful textbook for student learning.


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