Amanpour: In Today's Job Market, Self-Understanding Is Key to Success

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- From very senior management to recent
college grads, people are trying to navigate a job market that has
radically changed in the last decade. It is an uncertain marketplace,
said Sherry Amanpour, founder and president of AMAN Consultant
(http://www.amanconsultant.com), but for those who really know
themselves, the new work environment holds unlimited possibilities.

Amanpour isn't just talking. The Barnard College graduate, a cousin of
CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, was raised
in Iran by Iranian parents. She went on to become one of eleven women
diplomats in a 400-person diplomatic corps in the Iranian Foreign
service during the Shah's regime in Iran. Since then, she has
transitioned to no fewer than three impressive careers: From the
diplomatic corps to relationship banker for one money center U.S. bank
and three international banks; from banking to founding AMAN
Consultant, a search firm serving financial institutions as well as
providing career guidance to senior management and college grads.
Amanpour has placed hundreds in new jobs, counseled others towards
career change and yet others to identifying and changing
self-defeating work patterns. Prior to her diplomatic and banking
careers, Amanpour began her post-college career as a librarian at
Columbia University's Teacher College.

"We live in a time of vital change and opportunity," Amanpour
explained. "Today it is not the strongest or most intelligent who
survive and succeed, but those most responsive to change.
Professionals must be captains of their own careers. Companies no
longer manage employees' careers; rather, our careers are in our own
hands."

Before job seekers can become captains of their careers, said
Amanpour, they must have realistic views of themselves. Amanpour
contends each of us is hard-wired to do well in certain careers,
thanks to the gifts, talents, skills and constraints unique to each
person -- but few people understand how to identify and use those
traits to find the right job match. That's where AMAN Consultant comes
in. Using methods Amanpour developed and has successfully used with
hundreds of clients around the world, the firm works with clients to
construct a step-by-step plan for using their gifts to change jobs or
careers, re-enter the changed job market or identify careers that are
growing in the 21st century.

"At AMAN Consultant, we believe if you don't know where you are going
you will end up in the wrong place," said Amanpour. "Today there is no
future in a job. The future lies with the person who holds the job. We
help our clients discover what they want that future to look like and
work with them to develop a roadmap to get there."

About Sherry Amanpour

As an Iranian diplomat, Amanpour served as Vice Consul of the Iranian
Embassy in Paris during the turbulent pre-regime change period. She
has traveled globally and attended meetings at various forums
including the United Nations in Geneva and New York. Amanpour speaks
several foreign languages and has successfully lived and worked in the
Middle East and Europe. Since 1980, she has lived and practiced in New
York City.

Contact:

Sherry Amanpour

AMAN Consultant

212-517-3180

aman1@attglobal.net

http://www.amanconsultant.com

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