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Careergonomics A Practical Guide for Mastering Personal Development and Employment Success in the 21st Century

ATLANTA – In a period of economic instability and job uncertainty, it is of the utmost importance to know how to think strategically about your personal development in order to ensure success in the 21st-century work environment. Global, lifelong learning professional and seasoned trainer Rashid Brown brings his expertise to readers in his new work-based learning guidebook, Careergonomics: A Practical Guide for Mastering Personal Development and Employment Success in the 21st Century (published by AuthorHouse). Comprehensive and accessible, Careergonomics delves into such topics as the state of employment today, strategic career planning, interview skills, and understanding and negotiating salaries. Each of the chapters is geared towards educating readers on how to play an active role in identifying and shaping their own work, leisure, abilities, interests, needs and values as well as self-development in terms of career or lifelong achievement in the workplace. Careergonomics also integrates information literacy with current studies, surveys, research and development, abstracts, articles and computer testing to aid all career-seekers in identifying limitless profession potential, career growth and personal and professional development opportunities. Careergonomics will:

Educate readers on how to play an active role in self-development in terms of career

Assist readers in developing a personal concept of career construction by relating developmental tasks, vocational transitions and individual knowledge, skills

Help readers understand, adapt and connect to the employer’s perception and expectation as well as understand the professional and technical skills needed to succeed in the changing workforce or marketplace

Increase productivity, motivation, leadership and employability Ideal for students, professionals, schools and policy-makers, Careergonomics injects personal responsibility into workforce effectiveness and job satisfaction, providing readers with the ability to take personal ownership of their career and life and become the person they want to be. Rashid Brown is an educator, lecturer, strategic speaker, business coach, presenter and facilitator. He has worked over for 20 years as a management professional and is recognized by the National Registry of CPE Sponsors of the National Association of the State Board of Accountancy. Brown is also recipient of the Congressional Merit of Honor, Madison Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals and Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals “Honors Edition.” He is also a professional member of the National Career Development Association, the Future Business Leaders of America, and the Georgia Writers Association. Presently, he is founding president of Kingdom Fortunes Development Group, a privately-held, executive leadership training and development consulting management company based in Atlanta, which provides personal development and organizational support, as well as success training and staff development to emerging leaders, teacher educators, administrators, educational institutions, nonprofits and business leaders.

AuthorHouse is the premier book publisher for emerging, self-published authors. For more information, please visit www.CAREERGONOMICS.org

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