This book helped me so much when I was in the middle of a crisis and considering changing careers. I am so grateful for the author.

Career Rookie or Your dream job can't swipe right or meet you at the bar - is a quick read and a refreshing help on how to best approach your decision making and the thinking that goes around that field. The book is light and quirky, tailored to young people. Which doesn't make it exclusive to youngsters - I am a seasoned professional, who found lots of useful bits of information and exercises, while flying through the book.
Sarah Vermunt takes the reader by the hand and starts slowly, by adressing the biggest questions everyone has to face before starting a career of any kind.

WTF is wrong with me? Shouldn't I have this figured out by now?

Chapter by chapter we go through reasons that keep us from jump starting an amazing career. Be it wrong or misguided expectations, parental guidance or failure anxiety.
The book helps to ask the right questions in order to narrow down to a field or even a specific job one desires; how to get the information on the job you need and talks about failure, rejection and real struggle - not hiding the ugliness behind professional careers and the search for the job.

There's a good chance that what you want wasn't a part of the Original Plan. The Original Plan was to know exactly what you wanted, with unwavering clarity [...], then go to school for that thing, graduate with a slew of super badass job offers from people dying to hire you for that thing, pick the best one, and then spend the rest of your life living happily ever after doing that thing. THE END. Yeah. How often do you think that works out for people? Never, dude. Like, zero.

I recommend Career Rookie to everyone! Really. It's an inspiring get-it-together-guide. Make sure to visit careergasm.com for more ideas and strategic help with your quest for the one perfect dream job.