Are you wondering why everyone else appears to have a career plan? Is it true that only the most aggressive and power hungry people get what they want?

How to Take Control of your Career, adapted from John Lees earlier book, How to Get the Perfect Promotion, is a practical guide to developing the best career strategy for you.

Drawing on the experience of high performers, it shows you how to overcome mental and physical barriers, make the best visible impact, and negotiate your job content, career advancement and pay.

It will help you to get inside the mind of your employer; find out what makes them tick, and how you can use this information to your advantage. The book also examines how to raise and maintain a good profile as well as how to understand and manage others people's perceptions of you.

Key features include how to:

• Conduct your own career audit
• Understand your motivational buttons and set goals
• Know when it's time to jump ship and find a new job
• Renegotiate your job content
• Manage your boss
• Avoid career traps
• Learn the art of career awareness and career enhancement
• Get your life and work in balance

"A joy to read as well as an indispensable roadmap for anyone serious
about managing their careers"
Steve Crabb, Editor, People Management

"John Lees inspires people to rethink the way they work:
to work with greater purpose, meaning and work/life balance"
Andrea Watson, Daily Express CAREERS

"Highly recommended - always practical, but never patronising."
Ian Wylie, Guardian Rise

"A great way to kick-start your career makeover."
Cosmopolitan

"A brilliant book for anyone who wants a new direction."
Tessa Hilton, Woman & Home

This book deals with many of the question types that floor candidates, including questions about personality, behaviour, achievements, and also competency-based question techniques.

'Top UK Careers Guide John Lees' has joined forces with American careers expert, Matthew J Deluca, to take you through the whole interview process. Top Answers To Tough Questions also contains a wealth of useful information about job interviews in general – what to expect, what the interviewer is really looking for, and how to present yourself to best advantage.