Ever thought of working for yourself? Of course you have - and all the time! This is the book you wished you had ten years ago. For many people, working for themselves is something that they yearn for and dream about. The time has now to come to work for the best boss you could have - i.e., yourself. This book is a straight forward, lively guide to the realities of setting up your business, written from first hand experience. Share in the disaster of the author's first sales meeting. Laugh at the attempts to design a marketing flyer, and wince at the pace of learning required to stay one step ahead of clients. Through such experiences, the author reveals the secrets of developing a client base and the skills which will help you through the door to self-employment in all its bare knuckle glory. Working for yourself is one of the richest experiences in life. This practical and inspirational book will put you on the road to success.

Leave the Bastards Behind: An Insider's Guide to Working for Yourself

Business & Money

Maun, Richard

Marketing & Sales

Marshall Cavendish Books Ltd.

If you have a job, would you like to keep it? In these difficult and unstable times, the answer is most likely to be a resounding 'YES!'. This book reveals the secrets of keeping your job. It cuts to the heart of modern working life and examines the big things that trip people up and what you need to know in order to survive. You might be great at the technical side of your job, but it's no longer enough to keep you employed these days. This book is based on first-hand experience of coaching people to keep their job. It covers the key themes which come up again and again one of which is: SOFT SKILLS COUNT. Ultimately, survival is about becoming an employee who can add value to your work and your company. And this book provides the 12 secrets to help you achieve just that.

How To Keep Your Job: Brilliant Ways to Increase Performance, Stay Employed and Keep the Money Rolling in

Job Hunting & Careers

Marshall Cavendish Intl

Competition is fierce. Employers and recruiters are becoming more skilful and discerning. Finding the job you want today requires more than a brilliant CV and the ability to answer tough interview questions.Job hunting has become a sophisticated game, and to play it well you must have the right set of tools and skills that can really make a difference. This book, based on a successful seminar taught at Cranfield University to high-flying business and MBA students, provides tools, tips, skills and secrets to turn you from an amateur to a professional player in today's job hunting market. You will become more confident, maximise your achievements, increase your opportunities and sell yourself more effectively by undertaking this proven framework.

Job Hunting 3.0 (MMP Ed): Skills And Secrets To Sell Yourself Effectively In The Modern Age

UNKNO

If the average tenure in a job varies from two to five years, then most people will have between 9 and 21 jobs during their career, between the ages of 21 and 65. Therefore, the chances of meeting a few bastards along the way are fairly high, who can make your life hell.This is a straight forward, but at times funny how-to book, written in a breezy style designed to engage the many people in distress. It's about how to survive in a hostile environment and move towards a more fulfilling work life, when your boss takes a dislike to you or treats you badly and threatens your job. Learn about the nature of bosses in business. Learn about your own ego, the helpful use of language, and some practical techniques to help you remain calm. Use the unique Serengeti Model to decode which species of animal your Boss is. Then find out how you can deal with him/her in the best way, to help keep you safe from harm.

My Boss is A Bastard: Overcoming The Boss From Hell (Business Solutions)

Riding the Rocket means managing your Modern Career. This is the only book in this genre that uses the unique concept of a Modern Career to guide people. It’s a practical ‘how to’ book, giving people the tools and motivation to create opportunities for themselves. People need to self-manage their career in order to keep working and this book is here to enable them to do so. Like rockets, careers can be unpredictable, require fine tuning, need maintenance and above all need someone to control their direction and speed. We have to be to be proactive, resilient and adaptable and manage our career so that it works for us and gives us the working life that we want. The working world is full of risk, change and uncertainty …and also opportunity. Compared to the static career-ladder approach of the post-war era, we now live in a Modern Career world where technology, globalization and economic rebuilding are giving people the opportunity to create and manage a flexible career for themselves. We can all choose to retrain, change industries, set up our own business, work as a consultant or create a portfolio lifestyle.

Riding the Rocket: How to Manage Your Modern Career