Stefanie Sword-Williams

You've spent years climbing the career ladder, snagging promotions and basking in the glow of well-deserved pay rises. On paper (read: LinkedIn), everything seems great - enviable even. However, you can't quite help but feel … underwhelmed? The go-getter energy that once propelled you out of bed has been replaced with burnout and now, beneath it all, you're left wondering: 'Is this really it?' If this sounds familiar, then you may be experiencing 'career comedown'. Thankfully, Stefanie Sword-Williams, award-winning founder and author of F*ck Being Humble, is here to help. Drawing upon Stefanie's years of experience as a career expert, and hundreds of hours of interviews and research, this personable and relatable handbook offers a trove of practical advice on what to do when work isn't working for you. Exploring three distinct pathways - sticking with your current job but moulding it to suit you, twisting down a different path and reinventing yourself professionally, or tapping out from work being your identity altogether - Career Comedown is an engaging and essential guide to prioritising your needs in your working life. So if you've ever asked yourself… - Am in the right career? - Am going to feel stuck forever? - How can I find better work life balance? - How can I stop letting work take over? - Can I reinvent myself and still be successful? …then this book is the one for you. Feel empowered to reflect on your values, take charge of your career journey and redefine success on your own terms.

Get ready to start taking charge of your own success. Whether it is through our parents, our education, our bosses, our colleagues, or the media we consume, we are constantly told that being humble is essential to our professional success. It's often seen as distasteful or arrogant to shout about our achievements. But in a modern workplace, where the conventional, steady, linear career path is becoming rarer and rarer, this advice seems ever-more obsolete. In the age of flexible working and portfolio careers, it's time to f*ck being humble. With simple exercises, steps and real-life examples, this is a resource for your bedside table that you can come back to again and again, at any point in your career. Learn how to: Know what you stand for Stop hiding (even when you don't realise you are) Fully realise the power of networking Know your self-worth Play the money game and win Manage your emotions at work Take action and establish the right time to make the leap Keep the momentum you've generated going and maintain that elusive work-life balance