The Independent Consultant's Survival Guide: Starting Up and Succeeding as a Self-Employed Consultant

The Independent Consultant's Survival Guide: Starting Up and Succeeding as a Self-Employed Consultant

by Mike Johnson (Author)

Synopsis

Every year thousands of people like you decide to make the move to independent consultancy, and next year hundreds of them will go crawling back to the security of paid employment. The problem is simple: to succeed at most jobs you have to be good at what you do; to succeed as an independent consultant you also have to be good at everything else all those people you used to work with did as well. The Independent Consultant's Survival Guide is for people who are serious about becoming a successful independent consultant. It provides advice from people who've been there and survived long enough to tell the tale. Rather than being a book about how to consult, The Independent Consultant's Survival Guide is about how to be a consultant. Filled with examples from people who've been incredibly successful, some who make a living and some who failed, it distills advice and experience into a useful text, covering how to get started, marketing yourself, developing the business and more. If you want to make it through your first year, see your business prosper and grow and don't want to have to go back and get another job working for somebody else, then this book will be an invaluable resource.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: 1
Publisher: CIPD - Kogan Page
Published: 01 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 1843981165
ISBN 13: 9781843981169

Media Reviews
The number of self-employed people is continuing to climb - with about one in eight of the workforce now working for themselves. This autumn's figures show that this year more than 100,000 people were added to the ranks of the self-employed - an Increase that followed last year's huge rise, when almost 300,000 became self-employed. The Guardian, 4 December 2004
Author Bio
Mike Johnson is a consultant, author and managing partner of Johnson Associates Limited, a corporate communications consultancy. The firm's main activities are internal communications strategy, researching and writing on world-of-work issues and management education strategy for major corporations and institutions.