The Success Code: How to Stand Out and Get Noticed

John Lees is one of the UK's best-known career strategists. His book How To Get a Job You Love regularly tops the list as the bestselling careers book by a British author.As a career strategist, John specialises in helping people make difficult career decisions. Along the way he helps them reach out and communicate. John is the author of a wide range of career titles. His books have been translated into Arabic, Polish and Spanish. He is featured in the national press and his work has been profiled in Management Today, Psychologies, Coaching at Work and the Sunday Times. John broadcasts widely and has contributed to the BBC interactive Back to Work series programme, BBC2's Working Lunch, Channel 4's Dispatches and ITV's Tonight – How To Get A Job. He is a regular blog contributor to Harvard Business Review online and in 2012 wrote the introduction to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. John has presented at conferences and events in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland, and the USA.John is a graduate of the universities of Cambridge, London and Liverpool, and has spent most of his career focusing on the world of work. He has consulted for a wide range of organisations including: British Gas Commercial, The British Council, CIPD, Harrods, Hiscox, The House of Commons, Imperial College, The Association of MBAs, Lloyds Banking Group, Marks & Spencer, NAPP Pharmaceutical, Oakridge, as well as business schools across the UK. John is a Fellow of the CIPD, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals, a Career Management Fellow, and was a founding Board Director of the Career Development Institute.Alongside his day job, John serves as an ordained Anglican priest. John is married to the poet and children's writer Jan Dean. They live in East Devon.