About Young Zinger: How to Start Your Career One Step Ahead and Stay There:
“Why didn’t they teach us that at school” is something we have either said privately to ourselves, or heard others cry out all too often. It’s not surprising. The current education system was developed over 150 years ago! It continues to push young people through outmoded structures studying the same, often inconsequential subjects. It bypasses many of the most basic and most important lessons we need to successfully navigate through life. This book fills many of the gaps that formal education largely neglects. Whether you’re looking for work for the first time, or you’re already a few years into professional life and wondering if there is something better out there, this book provides you with the essential tools and techniques to be confident and competent in: choosing a career, networking, finding a job, salary negotiation, dealing with conflict, working with a difficult boss and successfully steering your way through many of professional’s life every day challenges. At some point in your career, you’ll encounter every scenario in this book. When you do, rather than scratching your head and wondering what to do next, you’ll have the tools and information at your fingertips which facilitate you taking rapid but measured action.
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Author Bio:
Hi, I’m Carl Williams.
Born and educated in the UK, I have spent the majority of my adult life with my wife and three children living in France and Switzerland, but also travelling around the world on business. I consider myself incredibly fortunate in having had the opportunity to experience so many different places and cultures.
I wholeheartedly recommend the travel to everyone but the aggregation of 3am wake-ups for 6am flights, airport security, delays, lost luggage, packing and unpacking can eventually lose its appeal! Consequently, I now rarely travel for business and instead enjoy the fantastic quality of life that Switzerland offers – stunning mountains, lakes, and forests all on one’s doorstep.
I like change a lot, which has driven me to work as an employee and as an entrepreneur in a number of different industries namely; Sports Marketing, Medical Devices, Medical Retail, Energy Efficiency and Management Consulting and, in 11 different organisations – large multi-national companies, SME’s and start-ups.
Being involved in marketing some of the world’s biggest sports events e.g., the Olympic Games the FIFA World Cup and the Asian Games was undoubtedly the most fun I’ve had professionally, but the most dynamic and intellectually stimulating has been Consulting. Working inside so many different industries and companies is professionally enlightening although there is always some degree of déjà vu in that many of the day-to-day challenges organisations face are similar.
As I move towards the latter part of my professional career, I’m now using my 30+ years of international business experience to help young people start off and then thrive in the workplace. This has led to the publication of my first book – Young Zinger, How to Start Your Career One Step Ahead and Stay There (www.youngzinger.com).
I have long felt that formal education falls short in providing young people with essential life skills. Effectively, we need more emphasis on networking, job interview skills, personal finance, and negotiation and less on who won a battle in 1690!
I’m far from alone in this belief so the mission is clear. Start filling those skills and knowledge gaps without forcing anyone to go back to school and galvanize enough people in the process to influence real change in the system so that future generations are better prepared.
Join me on that journey.