John Lees

Agent: James Wills

John Lees is one of the UK’s best-known career strategists and the author of 15 books on work and careers. How To Get A Job You Love regularly lists as the best-selling careers book by a British author.

John’s other titles include Knockout Interview, Knockout CV, The Interview Expert, Just The Job!, Secrets of Resilient People, and The Success Code and Get Ahead in Your New Job. His books have been translated into Arabic, Georgian, Polish, Japanese and Spanish.

In 2012 he wrote the introduction to the Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job. 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, serving as Chief Executive of the Institute of Employment Consultants (now the Recruitment & Employment Confederation).

John Lees Associates specialises in helping people make difficult career decisions – difficult either because they don’t know what to do next, or because there are barriers in the way of success. John has run career workshops in Australia, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Mauritius, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and several parts of the USA.

John has written careers columns for Metro and People Management and thought leadership pieces for The Times and The Guardian. He appears regularly in the national press with features in a wide range of titles including Management Today, Cosmopolitan, Prospects, and Psychologies. His coaching work has been profiled in Coaching at Work and The Sunday Times. TV appearances include Back to Work (BBC Interactive), Working Lunch (BBC2), Dispatches (Channel 4), Talking Business (BBC World), and Tonight – How To Get A Job (ITV).

John has worked with a wide range of organisations on career issues including: Boston Consulting Group, The British Council, CIPD, Deutsche Bank, Endsleigh, Hiscox, The House of Commons, ICAEW, Imperial College, The Association of MBAs, Lee Hecht Harrison, Lloyds Banking Group, Manpower, The Met Office, The National Audit Office, Oakridge, and business schools across the UK.

He served as Joint Chair of the Association of Career Professionals-UK (2011-13), was a founding Board Director of the Career Development Institute and in March 2016 was elected a NICEC Fellow. He also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals.

Books by John Lees