Power moves : how women can pivot, reboot, and build a career of purpose

Power moves How women can pivot, reboot, and build a career of purpose

Lauren McGoodwin

Book - 2020

"POWER MOVES, a career guide for women stuck in unfulfilling jobs developed from the lessons on the Career Contessa website, featuring inspirational stories from impressive women in a variety of fields, exercises in how to make big life changes, and a discussion of how to find a meaningful career, from Career Contessa founder Lauren McGoodwin"--

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Subjects
Women > Vocational guidance.
Women in the professions.
Career changes.
Self-help publications.
Genres
Self-help publications
Published
New York, NY : HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins [2020]
Language
English
Main Author
Lauren McGoodwin (author)
Edition
First edition
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xvi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062909190
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Does This Sound Familiar?
  • Chapter 1. How Did We Get Here?
  • Chapter 2. Notorious Career Traps
  • Chapter 3. You, Meet Wall
  • Part II. It's Called a Power Move
  • Chapter 4. What's a Power Move?
  • Chapter 5. Power Women, Power Moves
  • Chapter 6. The Power Moves Approach
  • Part III. The Power Moves Tool Kit
  • Self-Care Is Mandatory
  • Chapter 7. It Starts (and Ends) with You
  • Chapter 8. Treat Your Intuition Like Your New Best Friend
  • Chapter 9. Cut the Subliminal Self-Loathing
  • Chapter 10. Get Your Mental Health House in Order
  • Chapter 11. The Shame Game Is a Losing Game
  • Relationships Matter
  • Chapter 12. Your Personal "Circle of Champions"
  • Chapter 13. The New Rules for Networking
  • Chapter 14. The Art of Saying No
  • Chapter 15. Relationships Outside of Work
  • Take Control of Your Career
  • Chapter 16. Abandoning the Elusive "Dream Job"
  • Chapter 17. Define What You Can't Control
  • Chapter 18. Celebrate Your Mistakes as Successes
  • Chapter 19. Her Name Is Self-Advocacy-and She's Badass
  • Chapter 20. Become Your Own Career Coach
  • Chapter 21. Embrace Your Inner Questioner, Quester, and Quitter
  • Chapter 22. The Big Look
  • Don't Forget Money
  • Chapter 23. Your Relationship with Money
  • Chapter 24. Let Go of Your Fear of Money-for Good
  • Chapter 25. Know Your Work Value
  • Chapter 26. Negotiate for Win-Win Success
  • Final Thoughts
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

Career counseling books aimed at women invariably incorporate how to surmount the mental and health challenges of a job, and this first book from Career Contessa website founder and The Femails podcast host McGoodwin is no exception. While her advice sometimes feels geared to millennials, there's much for all ages to learn and relearn from her power moves. There's some routine talk here on relationships, the art of saying no, abandonment of the elusive dream job, and other topics. Readers will get the most out of more emotional, less intuitive sections on how to really network well, identifying non-controllables (like misogyny in the workplace), and finding your personal circle of champions. There are some familiar-feeling charts to fill up (i.e., good information to gather about target companies) and new words/behaviors to recognize, like concrete ceiling and bropropriating. Plus, McGoodwin shares several other womens' insights on their former and current jobs and what makes them fulfilled. Both re-hashed and new material will leave readers with something to remember. Appended with a "14-day career detox power move."Women in Focus: The 19th in 2020

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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