Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power

Robynn Storey

Language: English

Publisher: Wiley

Published: Apr 16, 2024

Description:

Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want as you grow in your career path

In Career Confidence: No-BS Stories and Strategies for Finding Your Power, recruitment, hiring, and job search industry veteran Robynn Storey delivers a detailed roadmap you can use to navigate the increasingly complicated and fast-moving world of work. You’ll learn how to find a job that fulfills and sustains you while also helping you flourish in your chosen career path.

Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths and explains how to define and demonstrate your value to employers, showing them what you’re really worth. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she’s helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want.

You’ll also find:

  • Dozens of real-life stories and anecdotes of professional interactions and experiences that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking
  • Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers
  • Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life

A must-read guide to a complex employment arena, Career Confidence will earn a place on the bookshelves of job seekers, interviewers, career changers, and professionals everywhere.

Review

“Robynn Storey is the career coach you never knew you needed but always wished you had. When she says “no BS” she means it. Chock-full of straightforward, honest, and spot-on tips for succeeding in the world of work, your investment in this book will pay dividends.”
- Dr. Lois Frankel , author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office and *Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out

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“In Career Confidence , Robynn Storey’s inspiring anecdotes and practical guidance demonstrate how to powerfully showcase your value to prospective employers, providing a complete roadmap for landing your dream job. Whether you’re a job seeker or a hiring manager, this book serves as the perfect tool to elevate hiring and job seeking strategies for any and every professional in all disciplines and industries.”
Liz Elting , Global CEO, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and Bestselling Author of Dream Big and Win

From the Inside Flap

The way we work has changed. Employees are standing up for themselves and demanding their job work for them, too. From phenomena like The Great Resignation, remote work, and a renewed importance placed on work-life balance to an increasingly fast-paced and competitive labor market, job seekers and recruiters alike are facing unprecedented challenges as they seek to either find work or fill roles.

In Career Confidence , veteran resume and hiring expert Robynn Storey delivers an insightful and comprehensive exploration of how to define your value and optimize your job search. You’ll find the motivation and information you need to navigate the modern workforce because everyone deserves to find the right fit, wake up feeling excited to get to work, and prepared to flourish in their chosen paths.

Through relatable client stories, the author burns down commonly held hiring myths. She draws on her extensive, two-decade career in which she’s helped over 300,000 clients find their dream jobs to give you the info you really need to get the job you really want.

You’ll find the motivation and information you need to make sense of an often confusing―and always fast-paced―labor market. You’ll also learn how to proactively define your value, convincingly demonstrating to employers what you’re worth and why you’re worth it.

You’ll also find:

  • Dozens of real-life client interactions that are at once humorous, inspiring, and sometimes shocking
  • Strategies for combining the personal moxie that makes you truly unique with your professional work experience to create an irresistible package for employers
  • Techniques for defining your value in both your professional and personal life

The perfect resource for job seekers, interviewers, managers, career changers, and early- and mid-career professionals, Career Confidence is the must-read book that everyone trying to navigate an increasingly complex career arena has been waiting for.

From the Back Cover

Learn how to bet on yourself and build the professional life you want

“Robynn Storey is the career coach you never knew you needed but always wished you had. When she says ‘no BS,’ she means it. Chock-full of straightforward, honest, and spot-on tips for succeeding in the world of work, your investment in this book will pay dividends.”
―DR. LOIS FRANKEL , New York Times bestselling author of Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office and Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out

“In Career Confidence , Robynn Storey’s inspiring anecdotes and practical guidance demonstrate how to powerfully showcase your value to prospective employers, providing a complete roadmap for landing your dream job. Whether you’re a job seeker or a hiring manager, this book serves as the perfect tool to elevate hiring and job seeking strategies for any and every professional in all disciplines and industries.”
―LIZ ELTING , Global CEO, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, and bestselling author of Dream Big and Win

“Wisdom weaved through vulnerable storytelling―a witty, inspiring read, that leaves you feeling empowered to live the path that’s meant for you.”
―NINA PUREWAL , co-author of the international bestselling Let That Sht Go*

About the Author

ROBYNN STOREY is the CEO and founder of Storeyline Resumes, the #1 most searched resume company on LinkedIn, where she has a million dedicated fans who enjoy her daily stories and advice. She has over 23 years’ experience and has helped countless clients gain career confidence and land their dream jobs.