Top Jobs

by Sharon Aris

ISBN 1 875989 49 8

$26.95

Publication date: August 2000

An original concept in career guidance – contains interviews with people in Australia's top ten jobs and professions, including: law, medicine, accounting, finance, communications and information technology. This book provides a uniquely detailed profile of each career, including personal qualities needed to succeed, interviews with people in the career, and people who have left that career – and their reasons for doing so.

Each chapter provides:
* a typical career path, including salaries at certain stages
* interviews with people in the career, after five or ten years
* a list of qualities needed for that career
* a general explanation of the career and its outlook for the future
* industry attitudes to women

Work experience in a book.