Guide to Self-Employment : A Round-Up of Career Alternatives Ranging from Consulting and Professional Temping to Starting or Buying a Business

Edited by the National Business Employment Weekly, today's leading career resource, the NBEW Guide to Self-Employment tells you how to benefit from the downsizing and reorganizing work trend, exploring such specific career alternatives as consulting, freelancing, temping, buying or launching a business, purchasing a franchise, and others.

Key topics covered include:
* Determining your aptitude for working independently through diagnostic quizzes and self-assessment exercises
* Starting a business, including market research, planning, financing, and more
* Setting up your work environment, including office space and equipment needs, professional services, network resources, and hiring
* Buying an existing business or franchise--the different types of businesses, valuing and pricing the acquisition, and negotiating an agreement
* Launching a consulting practice--defining your services and markets, selling yourself, pricing, billing, and building a clientele
* Professional temping and outsourcing--how and when they work best


Supplemented with dozens of useful case studies and handy resource materials, the NBEW Guide to Self-Employment offers a complete and in-dispensable look into a whole new world of career opportunities outside corporate life.

DAVID LORD is a career journalist, having worked as a daily newspaper writer and editor for 10 years and as Editor at Kennedy Information from 1987 to 1995, where he covered the management consulting and executive search industries and became a widely quoted authority in both fields.