An enjoyable non-fiction books are careers and developing your skills within whatever industry you're in. Lots of helpful tips to help you climb the career ladder faster than ever before.

This book speaks a lot to current career and workplace scenarios and situations. Gone are the days of liner careers where progress and growth is almost, if not completely predictable. With the continuous change in industry and industry needs, new jobs are being created and as such allow us all the freedom to be able to change careers and engage in a squiggly career.

A great compliment to The Multi-Hyphen Method. As someone who has done many jobs and never settled into a career, this book felt like it was written for me. Great for if you're a bit lost in your career, it has some excellent ideas and exercises to help you find what you love.

For a book based on career goals, I found this to be an absorbing read, and really enjoyed it. I got some great ideas, and learned not to worry about my (ahem) "non-traditional" career path.

This book is just brilliant practical easy to complete meaningful exercises that get you thinking. If you want a development tool to add to your kit this book is perfect.
I enjoyed the activities the insights and realisation gained from completing them. There are also links and references to so some other brilliant content available and the amazing If website offers even more. This has been my favourite self development book which I will be re-reading and re-completing the activities this book has become an essential part of developing my career

The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper; Sarah Ellis

I really enjoyed this book! I love how it is reminiscent of a few older style business and career success books (Covey & Tracy spring to mind), but with a fantastic, up-to-date, modern slant! The Squiggly Career fits in with a changing society that no longer views a career as an upward straight career ladder (analogy has lost its usefulness), but a squiggly one! Times have indeed changed and this fresh approach to a tried and tested formula is not only enlightening but encouraging.

I've personally had exactly this sort of career, and so has my husband. Gone are the days when we hope that if we work hard we'll stay in one job for life, and gone are the days of a promotion adding more security. Takeovers, redundancies, there is so much against us. But also, gone are the days of employers looking at your CV and wondering why you had so many jobs, or why you decided on a full-on career change. I used to feel awful looking at my CV thinking it looks like there's something wrong with me. Now I understand that this is what life is like for a new generation. Several careers in one's life is to be expected.

From starting a side project, finding a mentor, and achieving work/life balance to building your own personal brand - even demonstrating you're a leader when you don't actually have a team - it's all here.

Overall, this is a practical book that works to assist you in playing to your strengths, and maximising key skills that are transferable, whatever field of work you are in. However squiggly your career progression is, this book is guaranteed to show you how to live through your own values, increase your confidence, and network like a ninja in a way that will shape your ever-changing career for the best. With easy to understand, thought-provoking exercises and some great examples of experiences from others: A timely treat!

Helen and Sarah's also have a Squiggly Careers podcast - with episodes on happiness at work, productivity, confidence, and interviews with guests like Marie Forleo and Dame Stephanie Shirley.

Thanks to the publisher and #NetGalley for my ARC copy, this is my unbiased honest review of this book - I loved it!

A well thought and well written book, informative and interesting.
I liked how the authors use examples from their life as it give a more personal ring to the book.
It's an useful and interesting read, recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

I thought this book was wonderful!

'The Squiggly Career' came at the perfect time for me. I've been working now for almost ten years and in that time have worked for seven different companies. These roles have been in different industries and I've gone from being an employee to self-employed and then back to being an employee. 'Jumping about' from role to role sometimes gets a bad rep but for me it has always been positive - the roles have generally been a promotion with an increase in salary to boot.

I started my current role about 10 months ago - it was a sideways move and I took a salary cut because I was moving into the charitable sector. This isn't something I would have previously considered but it was for a company I am passionate about and suited my personal values.

I really appreciated the concept of this book as it talks about the new way of working - career plans are no more and it's less likely than people will work for the same organisation for 10+ years. In fact I'm always surprised when I see people who have been at the same company for 20-30 years! There's nothing wrong with that but I think there's such a benefit in trying out different companies, industries and roles.

I worked through this book methodically, learning from the authors' experiences and completing the activities. I really enjoyed it and will be rushing out to get myself a copy and for the person I manage too (it was challenge to do them properly on a Kindle!). Some of the aims of the book are to understand the new ways of working in today's world, identify your values and your "super strengths" to continue your development and use them to your advantage, and build skills such as networking. The authors also talk about the three key "future skills" they believe will become more important in the future which was very useful.

My favourite parts were definitely identifying my "super strengths" and values to make sure I'm in a role that helps me continue to develop, and figuring out what triggers me to have a lack of confidence and how I can improve that. I also enjoyed analysing my support network and writing my personal manifesto.

Overall an absolutely brilliant book - thank you Helen and Sarah. Embrace the squiggly!

I like the cover and title of this book.

It promised a lot, especially as I myself have had a squiggly career.

Inside, while I thought it was promising, the content was a little dry despite the topic being covered so interesting.

The chapters were well thought out, maybe because of the format on Kindle, it was hard to read and just wasn't what I was expecting.

A lot of it just didn't make sense, and I found there was more research based items and quotes to pad the text out rather than actual action items.

Overall, this book is not for me.

I really loved this. It was exactly as I expected and I felt I received what I wanted from a careers guide. It was full of real-life examples of scenarios and tips the authors outlined (so much more useful than a standard careers guide). The use of the authors' real life experiences made it far easier to understand the concepts being outlined and therefore made the guide more useful. I'll be using several of the concepts they presented.

The final chapter on career tips they had gathered from others was a nice touch.