Working for Yourself is a best-selling guide that answers every question an entrepreneur might have about self-employment, including: raising finance, tax and legal issues, IT, and planning for growth. It also identifies the common mistakes and how to avoid them.
Self-employment may seem a daunting prospect, but with job security a thing of the past, everyone who is in employment could be justified in developing a contingency plan for self-employment.
This helpful guide encompasses every point a would-be entrepreneur, either a former employee or recent graduate, needs to know. Fully revised and updated for 2008, it encompasses all the latest developments in the world of self-employment and new business.
There's also friendly advice and lots of useful tips from case studies of those who've already made a successful leap into self-employment.
The late Godfrey Golzen was the author of several highly successful Kogan Page guides, specialising in business affairs. He also wrote regularly for the national press.
Jonathan Reuvid graduated in PPE at Oxford University, worked as an economist for the French national oil company, Total, and then in investment banking before taking up senior line and staff positions in industry including general management of a Fortune 500 multinational covering most Western European countries.
Subsequently, Jonathan Reuvid engaged in joint venture development in China and a parallel career in business book publishing. He is author of or consultant editor for more than 30 Kogan Page titles.