After You've Dressed for Success: A Guide to Developing Character as Well as a Career

After You've Dressed for Success: A Guide to Developing Character As Well As a Career--- Excerpt from the Dust Jacket flap: Here is a career book for women that moves beyond the superficial strategies for getting ahead-beyond the "right color" and the "skirted suit" and "learning to play the game". Instead of emphasizing power ploys and corporate gamemanship, Luci Swindoll addresses the need for professionalism, maturity, perspective, and character in the career game. And she draws on her 30 years of experience in the corporate world to show women how courage, brains, heart and faith-not just proper image and corporate gamemanship-are the keys to a fulfilling career as well as a full and happy life. As Luci Swindoll explains, "This book is how to get there from here".a "Here" means wherever you are-a recent graduate, a homemaker ready to re-enter the job market, a young employee looking to move up, and "old hand" looking for perspective and encouragement. "There" is a professional niche where you can be happy, productive, and successful. And "how to get there" -the heart of this book -is an informal but invaluable travel guide for the professional journey. Ms. Swindoll points out important signposts, suggests ways to overcome obstacles, introduces you to fellow travelers, and tells you stories from her own experience. Along the way, she is encouraging, inspiring, entertaining, and down-to-earth -the kind of warm, wise mentor every working woman needs! "After You've Dressed for Success" is not a step-by-step, "everything you need to know" handbook -there are plenty of those available. Instead, this is an interesting book of "whys" in a market full of "hows". Its emphasis on "building a character, not an empire" puts a solid ethical foundation under the career ladder. But what is most appealing bout this book, is its strong sense of "You can do it!" You can have a worthwhile career, even if you can't seem to get started. You can enjoy success without sacrificing your principles or your personal life. You can find a niche where you work is fun as well as fulfilling. And with a friendly, helpful style that is all her own, Luci Swindoll show you the way.