A career coach from Milton Keynes has seen a change in her own career after becoming an author and launching her first book at an event at Cranfield University.
Della Judd, who has coached and mentored hundreds of people in senior roles over the last 25 years, felt compelled to write her book Get The Job You Really Want In A Post Pandemic World after her own personal experiences with redundancy, balancing childcare and health challenges.
At the launch event, Della spoke to the room about how she struggled to find a job that worked around her family after being made redundant whilst on maternity leave and facing a job search with a six-month-old child. She found a role that was a 90-minute commute away and then faced a medical emergency when her son’s nursery called to say they suspected he had meningitis.
Della said:
“That 90-minute journey to get back to him felt like the longest journey of my life. It also gave me time to reflect and realise that this job just wasn’t working. I was out of the house before my son was awake and back after he had gone to bed. I then secured another job that was a big pay cut but gave me 10 hours back a week.”
Since then, Della has become an advocate for flexible working and positive leadership and works with people to help them to identify what they want from their job, what they value and what motivates them and believes that following the pandemic, many people are now starting to ask themselves these questions.
Get The Job You Really Want In A Post Pandemic World tells Della’s story and also offers helpful tips, exercises and case studies to understand your values and what drives you, to reflect on your work-life balance and what you want it to be, and how to build confidence so you can present your best self at interview.
As well as being sold on Amazon, copies of Della’s book have also been donated to the YMCA and education and careers service, Key Business Skills Ltd in Daventry, thanks to a crowdfunder initiative set up by Della that sees people who buy a book also donate a book for someone in need to help them change their life. Copies of the book have also been donated to Willen Hospice, for the charity to sell in its shop.
“The pandemic hit us all for six when it landed in 2020,”
added Della.
“Then, slowly, we got used to this enforced period of staying at home without a commute. People started spending more time with their family and focussing on the things that really mattered. Now we’re seeing some companies forcing a return to the office and others offering a more flexible, hybrid way of working.
“As we enter an employees’ market with more choice than ever before in terms of how we work, it is important to understand how we can get the job that really works for us.
“Everyone deserves to be in a job they enjoy, and I really want to do all I can to make that happen.”
Copies of Get The Job You Really Want In A Post Pandemic World by Della Judd are available on Amazon.
The Crowd Funder to donate books has now closed but any companies interested in giving copies of Della’s books away to those in need are urged to contact Della directly to discuss at admin@dellajudd.co.uk
