What is The Play of Your Life?

The Play of Your Life helps readers identify their true passions and make them a reality. Part One of The Play increases the readers' self-awareness by examining their values, temperament, personality preferences, interests and fascinations. Each chapter offers a different lens for the reader to look at themselves for insights and clues relating to career satisfaction.

Once they have found themselves "center stage", they proceed to Part Two of The Play. Here, the reader learns how to create marketing materials and develop a strategy to ensure that prospective employers recognize the value of their performance. The resume and cover letter chapter guide the reader in creating marketing tools that place the spotlight on their true talents and assets by extracting those accomplishments that speak directly to their internal career description. The strategy that follows empowers the reader take control of their careers. Instead of randomly posting resumes online, The Play helps readers use their network to attract appropriate leads and research the specific organizations that fit the profile of their internal career description.

Since most people were never taught how to conduct a strategic and purposeful career search, by default, they end up on a career path that makes them simply a prop on this world's stage - doing work that is less than meaningful or rewarding. The Play teaches readers how to conduct a job search in purposeful and directed manner thereby giving them the tools necessary to become the Star of their own lives. Using vignettes from over 35 career counseling clients, the author illustrates the power of The Play's methodology for obtaining clarity and direction, articulating one's strengths in writing and in person to prospective employers, and implementing a strategic career search.