Description
As cofounder and chairman of Korn/Ferry International, the world's largest executive-recruitment firm, Lester Korn knows more about what it takes to launch and maintain a successful career than anyone else on the planet. And now, in The Success Profile, he gives you all the secrets he's learned from his twenty years as top headhunter.
Drawing on his own incomparable insights as well as dozens of interviews with executives he's placed in major companies, Korn offers you a complete course in successful career management. Backed up by a groundbreaking statistical survey of high-level business people (prepared by Korn/Ferry International and the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA), The Success Profile shows you exactly what it takes to start out in, stay on, and climb back aboard the fast track-at every point in your career and in every major industry. You'll learn:
- The essential qualities headhunters look for when recruiting an executive-Korn's famous "six-figure- executive profile"
- The central importance of planning in every stage of your career
- The personal attributes that almost invariably go hand in hand with successful corporate careers
- How to select an industry, company, and career best suited to your talents
- How to assess yourself from a "third-person perspective," maximize your assets, develop "strategic sense," position yourself for top spots, and integrate your goals with the values of your company's "corporate culture"
- How to find out where you stand in your company and if you're considered promotable, including how to capitalize on "the most valuable thirty minutes of the year"-your annual review
- Proven strategies for moving up: getting to the power center; becoming part of the "crown-prince group"; gaining visibility; taking risks; finding a niche; and "breaking out"-including all the facts on when and how executives typically achieve their first big career breakthrough
- Career planning for the executive woman-how to succeed in a male-dominated corporate world
- What to do if your career is blocked or stagnating
- The pros and cons of changing jobs and switching careers-why, when, and how to make a move
- Professional tips on job hunting-rรฉsumรฉs, inter- views...and headhunters
- Everything you need to know about money and compensation packages-including a survey of executive salaries broken down by age and industry
- And much more
Packed with illuminating anecdotes, surprising facts, unbeatable advice, Lester Korn's The Success Profile is like a one-on-one career strategy session with the world's top executive recruiter. If you're aiming for success in the highly competitive corporate world, this invaluable book will show you exactly what companies are looking for-and give you the winning edge.
ISBN:9780671552633
