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Managing Your Government Career: Success Strategies That Work Paperback - 2009

by Stewart Liff


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This guide gives current and future government employees powerful advice for starting out and maneuvering through their entire career.

Working for the government offers many advantages: great prospects for professional growth, job security, an attractive array of benefits, and the opportunity to help other citizens--but it also presents unique challenges.

Based on the author's more than 32 years experience in civil service jobs, as well as his interactions with thousands of government employees, the book helps you:

  • decide whether working for the government is right for you
  • understand the differences between federal, state, and local levels
  • apply, interview for, and get the job you want
  • take advantage of the training offered
  • understand the culture
  • become familiar with local politics
  • make yourself valuable
  • develop the right mentors
  • fluidly transition up the ladder

Packed with indispensable guidance, Managing Your Government Career is a unique and highly strategic resource for anyone working in government.

From the rear cover

If job security, an attractive array of benefits, great prospects for professional growth, and the opportunity to help other citizens sound good to you, then you may be ready for a career in government. But without the right guidance, finding and getting hired for the position that's right for you could be a tricky business--not to mention succeeding and thriving in your role, and taking advantage of future opportunities. A practical guide to flourishing in a challenging but rewarding job sector, Managing Your Government Career gives you valuable advice on: - Deciding whether working for the government is right for you - Understanding the differences between federal, state, and local levels - Applying, interviewing for, and getting the job you want - Making the best use of the training offered - Understanding the culture - Becoming familiar with local politics - Making yourself valuable - Fostering relationships with the right mentors - Fluidly transitioning up the ladder Packed with indispensable guidance, this is a unique and highly strategic resource that will help you get the government job you want and prosper throughout the rest of your career. Praise for Stewart Liff's Managing Government Employees: "Stewart Liff provides many great tactics, case studies, and stories that debunk common perceptions that government managers have of the government's personnel system.... This book should be required reading for all supervisors in government." -- GovLeaders.org "In Managing Government Employees, Stewart Liff offers dozens of techniques on how to meet and defeat the several challenges and stressful situations that govern-ment supervisors may encounter. Use these tactics and strategies as a solution if you are frustrated by government bureaucracy." -- Training.com "An extraordinarily credible endeavor...a 'must-read' for those contemplating entering management." -- Graziadio Business Report Stewart Liff began his career with the federal government in 1974. He is a winner of the President's Council on Management Improve-ment Award and the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. His books include Managing Government Employees and Seeing Is Believing. He lives in Saugus, California.

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  • Title Managing Your Government Career: Success Strategies That Work
  • Author Stewart Liff
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Amacom
  • Date 2009-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780814410998 / 0814410995
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.34 x 0.68 in (23.01 x 16.10 x 1.73 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Civil service positions - United States, Career development - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008044716
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.12

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2009, Page 166

About the author

Stewart Liff (Saugus, CA) began his career with the federal government in 1974. He is a winner of the President's Council on Management Improvement Award and the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. His books include Managing Government Employees (978-0-8144-0887-2).

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