EARLIER this month, ‘How To Have An Outstanding Career’ written by Farnham resident Susan Scott shot to the top of the Amazon charts (number one best-seller in the psychology category), a huge achievement that coincided with the official book launch held in Europe’s biggest book shop, Waterstones Piccadilly.

The speedy ascent to best-selling status demonstrates the relevance and timeliness of this book, which aims to support young professionals to negotiate the career climbing frame.

As opposed to the career ladder, take responsibility for their own career path and training, understand the importance of mental health, nutrition and well-being, and get to grips with the highly competitive, switched-on world of work of nowadays.

“My book is resonating right now with young professionals. They’re ambitious and driven and their careers have special meaning – in fact it defines them but they’re at a loss to know what to do to make their career successful,” said Susan at the launch.

“This means young professionals are throwing all the time they can at doing their job and getting recognised.

“All this ‘doing’, with little time for ‘recovering’ is affecting their health and well-being and if they don’t do something about it, will put them on the road to burnout. What they need is career resilience.

“Career resilience is the capability for this generation to apply themselves and create an outstanding career combined with the capacity to cope with the pressures and demands that are endemic to the workplace today.

“In this context, it is concerning to find that more than 25 per cent of respondents are not coping with the pressure and demands very well at all.”

For more information or to purchase the book, go to tinyurl.com/lehdglp.