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Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Ibarra, Herminia (Author)

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ISBN: 1591394139     ISBN-13: 9781591394136
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2004
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Annotation: Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything readers may have learned from "career experts."
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Careers - Job Hunting
- Self-help | Personal Growth - Success
- Business & Economics | Motivational
Dewey: 650.14
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.5" W x 8.34" L (0.49 lbs) 224 pages
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How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality

Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we're doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we've invested in our current profession.

In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from career experts. While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing, she says, is the result of doing and experimenting. Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of possible selves we might become.

Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of working identity: experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities.

Through engrossing stories--from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist--Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can:

Explore possible selves
Craft and execute identity experiments
Create small wins that keep momentum going
Survive the rocky period between career identities
Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
Make time for reflection--without missing out on windows of opportunity
Decide when to abandon the old path in order to follow the new
Arrange new events into a coherent story of who we are becoming.

A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.

 
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