Slave to the Job, Master of your Career

By Sean McLoughney
Published by Chartered Accountants Ireland (2009)
ISBN: 978-0903854-96-2

To be employable in today’s job market requires a new adaptable way of thinking and behaving. Slave to the Job, Master of your Career is a new book by Sean McLoughney that challenges people to change their mindset from being an employee to being an entrepreneur in the workplace. The book outlines how to adapt to the changing work environment by using practical business skills to find and keep the best jobs, while also bringing value to your employer.

This book sets out a step-by-step business approach that will ensure that you have the edge in the current job market, showing you how to:

1. Think like an entrepreneur

2. Treat your employer as your most important customer

3. Grow your personal brand

4. Develop your skills

5. Devise a business plan to stay employable

In the 21st century workplace, people will be expected to overcome new challenges, challenges that will require an entrepreneurial mindset and a fresh way of thinking. Slave to the Job, Master of your Career is written to help you take the first critical step to make yourself more marketable and employable, and to set yourself apart from the crowd.

Chapter-by-chapter outline of the book:

1. It’s Your Career – Managing yourself like a business

2. Planning Department: Your business plan to keep working

3. Quality Assurance Department: Set yourself apart by adding real value to your customer/employer

4. Marketing Department: Protect your personal brand

5. Research and Development Department: Your personal development strategy and understanding your true value

6. Sales Department: Networking your way to success

7. Audit Department: Yesterday a slave, today a master


Pre-order Slave to the Job, Master of your Career directly from Chartered Accountants Ireland here, or by calling +353 1 637 7233.

About the author
Sean McLoughney set up his own learning and development business, LearningCurve, in 2001 after almost 20 years with the EBS Building Society, where he held key managerial positions. LearningCurve specialises in delivering skills and knowledge for managing people, and the company has worked with large Irish and multi-national companies. He also lectures in Managing People (ACCA) for BPP Professional Education, delivers the Diploma in Managing People for Chartered Accountants Ireland, as well as lecturing for IPASS.