Forever Employable

How to Stop Looking for Work and Let Your Next Job Find You

By: Jeff Gothelf

Narrated by: Lyle Blaker

Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

After spending the first 10 years of his career climbing the corporate ladder, Jeff Gothelf decided to change his approach to staying employed. Instead of looking for jobs, they would find him. Jeff spent the next 15 years building his personal brand to become a recognized expert, consultant, author and public speaker.

In this highly tactical, practical book, Jeff Gothelf shares the tips, tricks, techniques, and learnings that helped him become forever employable. Using the timeline from his own career and anecdotes, stories, and case studies from other successful recognized experts, Jeff provides a step-by-step guide to building a foundation based on your current expertise, ensuring that no matter what happens in your industry you'll remain forever employable.

This handy guide to your career and professional development shows you how to create your own content, use it to build your expertise and credentials, and then scale it to build a continuous stream of income, interaction, and community.

As organizations seek to reduce costs, automate tasks, and increase efficiency, how do you ensure you don't end up outside of those plans? Forever Employable shows you how, so that you're always ready for the next step in your career.

Reduce stress, build your community, monetize your platform. That's being forever employable.

©2020 Jeff Gothelf (P)2020 Jeff Gothelf

Consistently Reinventing <br />

I liked it so much that I listened to it twice! The lines that stick to me the most are 1) we have to not just invent; but consistently reinvent. and 2) step off the corporate ladder and build your own.

Excellent Advice At Any Stage Of Your Career

What I enjoyed most about this book is that the lessons from start to finish can be applied to anyone at any point in their career.

Mr. Gothelf explains in simple terms that your voice, your knowledge, your experience has value whether you're an accountant or a cake decorator or software developer. All of us have a unique worldview whether you are just starting out, whether you failed in a job or you have been an absolute success story. All of these career experiences can be leveraged (through steps recommended in the book) to make yourself forever employable because businesses are willing to pay for (and find) talented, dedicated, unique and qualified workers.

Another aspect of this book that I enjoyed is the author gives you a step by step approach to becoming an employee that will be picked by companies rather than you searching for the next gig.

If you like James Altucher, Seth Godin, Brené Brown or Taylor Pearson books then add this one to your bookshelf.

How Many Career will you face in your life ?

All futurologists align to say that no one will stay anymore all his life in the same company and neither Millennials or Generation Z want to do the same job all life long....so you will have to face various careers !
Jeff Gothelf shares with us his story and his learnings to manage your career. This book is for anyone who want to change his job, grow in his company or just want to rebrand.
Very easy to ready and practical..don't miss it .
@VinceTheReader

Told to build our brand, these are the next steps

It seems so easy to understand because I guess, we all reflect around this topic.
The orientation found in this book is inspiring and set an order to those ideas we might be coming up to but not performing because inexperience or lack of reference. Would recommend this book also to recently graduated from college and joining to the workforce, it's a breakthrough to a new career path sequence.
It makes me think of how old civilizations honored wisdom by listening experience sharing which we are might be dismissing from our modern lives.

I have connected with the content since moment one

Honest and humble story telling about how to create community, boost your career and add value to whatever you do in life. I think is a useful set of steps to be more consciuous about why we need to create a methodoly to make ourselves visible to compete in the job market. Very well written and accessible for all publics.

Very useful ideas

Jeff Gothelf introduces a framework for how you can future proof your career and think more like the modern tech companies instead of the old school company man.

for those who are interested in a public career

unfortunately, the advice in this book is way too far from having universal applicability since the key scenario is around building a brand of your own through being on public via blogs, personal website, giving a speech at conferences etc.
while there's a mention of an attempt to do same within organizations (if you're not ok to do a wide reach), a person must be willing to pursue this kind of route if you will...

Thanks for the effort though!

a small time investment with great advice

a lot of great concepts that can be applied to any occupation. I like his honesty and that he says it won't be easy but it'll be worth it.

Nothing surprising

If you are a frequent reader I am sure you will find that there are no new ideas here. The story narrated in the book is well laid out though and pleasent to listen to.