The Book
Careering 9 - pre-orders are now open.
After years of research, writing, rewriting and plenty of candid career conversations, Careering 9 is finally ready to make its way into the world.
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Careering brings together real-world stories, thoughtful research and practical reflections on what it really means to build a career and a life that feels meaningful.
What do you want from your career? And how do you build one that actually works for you?
Careering 9 challenges the idea that careers follow a single, predictable path.
Drawing on research, real-world experience and candid career conversations, Melissa Davies shares nine practical lenses to help you think differently about success, work and the choices you make along the way.
Whether you're navigating change, considering your next move or simply questioning what success looks like for you, this book offers practical insights, fresh perspectives and space to reflect.
Paperback | 6 × 9 inches | Approximately 314 pages
Shipping & delivery
New Zealand orders: NZ$44.99 per book, plus shipping.
Please allow 4–6 weeks for delivery. Your book will be dispatched as soon as stock is available.
International orders: Please purchase through Amazon, where print-on-demand and international delivery options are available.
What do you want from your career? And how do you build one that actually works for you?
Careering 9 challenges the idea that careers follow a single, predictable path.
Drawing on research, real-world experience and candid career conversations, Melissa Davies shares nine practical lenses to help you think differently about success, work and the choices you make along the way.
Whether you're navigating change, considering your next move or simply questioning what success looks like for you, this book offers practical insights, fresh perspectives and space to reflect.
Paperback | 6 × 9 inches | Approximately 314 pages
Shipping & delivery
New Zealand orders: NZ$44.99 per book, plus shipping.
Please allow 4–6 weeks for delivery. Your book will be dispatched as soon as stock is available.
International orders: Please purchase through Amazon, where print-on-demand and international delivery options are available.
Sample chapter
A look inside
Getting What You're Worth
What are you really worth? And how good are you at recognising, communicating and asking for it?
Get a taste of Careering 9 with Chapter 7, exploring how we understand our value and advocate for ourselves throughout our careers. Click the button to download this now.
Want to explore the topic further? There's a podcast episode on this one too.
Inside the book
Part therapy, part research, part workbook.
Through three interconnected sections — YOU, WORK and YOU AT WORK — this book offers fresh ways to understand yourself, challenge assumptions about careers and make more intentional choices about what comes next.
“Your career isn't a path to follow. It's a series of choices that are yours to make”
Who it's for
For the women asking themselves what comes next.
Women in the middle of a transition — chosen or unchosen.
Women who feel successful on paper, and unfulfilled in practice.
Women who want ambition and wellbeing to coexist.
What you'll learn
Fresh perspectives, practical tools, and the confidence to choose.
Understand where you are
Explore what matters to you, what shapes your choices and what you want from your working life.
Define success on your terms
Question inherited expectations about ambition, achievement and what a successful career should look like.
Navigate change with clarity
Practical frameworks for transitions, decisions and pivots.
Shape a working life that works for you
Consider how your career fits alongside your values, relationships, wellbeing and the life you want to live.
Key outcomes
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Self-understanding
Greater clarity about who you are, what matters and what you want from your working life.
02
Perspective
New ways to think about careers, success and the possibilities available to you.
03
Agency
The confidence and practical tools to make choices that work for you.
FAQ
A few things you might be wondering.
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Now! Pre-order for delivery in 6 weeks
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No. Careering is written for women at any stage — early career, mid-career, senior leadership, returning, transitioning, or reimagining.
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Both, and neither exclusively. Careering weaves research, stories and reflective exercises into a practical, whole-of-life guide. It is more weighted to a research piece with reflections, and some tales woven in.
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Yes — an audiobook narrated by Melissa is planned for 2027, and will be released alongside the print and digital editions.
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Yes. For workplace book clubs, leadership programmes and community groups, please get in touch via the contact page.
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