The Career Adventurer's Fieldbook: Your Guide to Career Success

click here for more details, find new or used items	Steve Coomber, Stuart Crainer, Des Dearlove, Stephen Coomber New from £0.01 Used from £0.01 Pages: 368 (Paperback) ISBN: 1841120448 Pub: Capstone Pub date: 2002-08-29 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 668555

Reader Reviews:

Fresh look, same old story (4/4 people found this helpful)

I was attracted to this book because of it's different look/attitude, (I've read a fair few of these type of books recently as I'm looking to change career). Unfortunately it turns out to be the same as all the others.

The format:
1. Start with inspirational career change storys.
2. Get you to analyse your needs, values and interests.
3. Skip the bit about how you're supposed to map those onto careers that you have no knowledge of.
4. Give supporting advice about how to write a CV, interview etc.

In this book 1. has lots of examples who end up being multi-millionaire CEOs (yes they're all American examples) in jobs that don't sound a million miles away from their initial training or their background.
2. Refers to far too many other sources of information and doesn't provide much in the way of tools to help you. ("How to get a job you'll love" provides far more such tools.)
3. Finding careers that meet your analysis is boiled down to almost a single paragraph.
4. A few bullet points but again more references to other books but not a lot of help (e.g. ground breaking advice such as if you're interviewing for a job as a lumberjack don't turn up in a suit).
The book then dedicates most of it's remaining pages to what to do once you're in a job.

If you're just an ordinary man/woman stuck in a dead end career that you hate and want to change career to something that means something then this book isn't for you. If you're looking to weedle your way to a more 'succesful' job then it might be of interest.

Useful and informative (7/8 people found this helpful)

Although there are many books on careers most concentrate on a particular aspect of the career process like job interviews for example. The result: a shed load of books on your shelf and a hole in your wallet. Where this book scores is that it offers a little, but enough to be useful, of everything under one roof.

I particularly liked the interesting comments from interviewees who actually work -as opposed to comments from academics who talk about people who work - and the book is written in an accesible style and is actually quite amusing in places. (The illustrations are fairly witty for example).

All in all the book is not a bad read and while not the final word on careers certainly useful and informative enough to merit buying (or borrowing from the library!).

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