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Sought-After: How to Be Heard, Be Trusted, and Be Recognized for Your Expertise

Here’s the truth: We all start at the bottom, seeking knowledge, opportunity, and eventually respect and even acclaim. All sought-after professionals were once entry-level employees, stumbling their way into professions, learning “the hard way,” and feeling like they might be heard, trusted, or recognized for their passion, hard work, and expertise. If only there was a formula for becoming sought-after … Now, there is.

Sought-After: How to Be Heard, Be Trusted, and Be Recognized for Your Expertise by entrepreneur and sought-after HR expert Karen A. Young offers an unfiltered account of what it takes to climb the corporate ladder, drawing upon her own experiences of making big mistakes that could have been “career-ending moves,” and eventually locking in on a formula for career success and social mobility that can work for readers of all stripes.

  • If you’re in an entry-level job, wanting to become a manager, Sought-After can help.
  • If you’re a manager, wanting to become a leader, Sought-After can help.
  • If you’re a leader, wanting to become a trusted advisor (inside your organization or by becoming a solo practitioner or consultant), Sought-After can help.

“Sought-After: How to Be Heard, Be Trusted, and Be Recognized for Your Expertise is a book about obligation and reward. It is a book about personal renewal. It is a book that invokes individual responsibility and evokes collective achievement. Karen Young has created a practical and sustainable guide for those desiring to do what it takes to become sought-after.”

Steve Gilliland, CSP, CPAE, Bestselling Author and Member of the National Speakers Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame

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Honest and Real: An Essential Guidebook to Drama-Free Human Resources

People are your most valuable resource — especially in small businesses where every decision and activity can have a big impact. Having the best “people department” comes from making and conveying a thoughtful and forward-looking plan. Honest and Real: An Essential Guide for Drama-Free Human Resources by Karen A. Young can help you build it.

In this essential HR reference book, you’ll will find a detailed case study, plus timely content and vital information on how to handle legislative changes to make well-informed business decisions that directly impact your employees. Having solid and effective HR practices will not only improve your ROI but will create a positive culture in the workplace.

Honest and Real is must-read whether you’re the CEO, CFO, managing director or controller (of a business of any size!), or the manager of an established HR department. This book is for anyone who finds themselves placed into the role of HR professional — accidentally or purposefully.

With 30+ years of HR management experience, Karen delivers engaging content in an informative, lighthearted way, while ensuring that business leaders have the knowledge and insights to care for their employees and businesses efficiently and effectively. With solid policies and procedures in place, you’ll find a reduction in the time spent on incidents, disruptions, and turnover, which creates the time to focus on what you need to do to grow your business.

“Insightful and practical, Karen Young’s book does wonders for HR practitioners and anyone responsible for overseeing the HR function… without drama or histrionics. Just what’s needed these days. Bravo!”

Author Paul Falcone

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