Eight steps to getting back on your feet when you're fired, laid off, or your business ventures has failed--and finding more job satisfaction than ever before
Eight steps to getting back on your feet when you're fired, laid off, or your business ventures has failed--and finding more job satisfaction than ever before
Career Comeback helps you create a powerful plan to get back on top The author of the national bestseller JobSmarts for TwentySomethings, Bradley Richardson is one of America’s top career experts. But he also knows what it is like to experience a career setback. When an entrepreneurial effort failed and he was forced to become a job seeker himself, Richardson discovered firsthand the emotional, social, and financial stress that comes with losing a job. In Career Comeback, Richardson shares his years of expertise along with the hard lessons he learned in the trenches to give readers a realistic action plan for taking control of their careers—and their lives. With empathy and humor, Richardson takes readers step by step through the challenging process of breathing life back into a languishing livelihood. Inside, readers will get indispensable, nuts-and-bolts advice on how to: •Find solid ground •Identify where things went wrong •Establish a support system and stay energized •Discover what matters most •Find a new job that’s even better than the last •Get in stride and stay on track Job security is a thing of the past, but with Career Comeback readers learn how to rediscover their personal best.
Job seekers are often told to conduct informational interviews before deciding on a career path, yet many don't have access to professionals in certain fields, don't know what opportunities exist or even where to begin. This book does the legwork for them. From aerospace to advertising, fashion to finance, it profiles today's 50 best careers to give readers the inside scoop on the pluses and minuses of each job. Featuring advice from recruiters, the bigwigs and the young guns, JobSmarts Insider's Guide to 50 Top Career Paths answers: How do I get them to want me? (And will I want them?) Will I make coffee or decisions? Will I be working for passion or a big paycheck? Will I like my job? (Will I like my boss's job?) And much more.
From outdoor excursions to everyday use at home, bush knives are practical tools with many uses. Now, you can make your own! Great for beginning knifemakers, learn how to select the steel, forge it, quench it, and grind it into a usable knife. Author, outdoorsman, blacksmith, and knifemaking instructor Bradley Richardson describes the techniques of both stock removal and forging, and how to achieve great results with simple power tools or hand tools. With a small propane or coal forge in your backyard and just a few pieces of equipment, you can discover and enjoy the craft of knifemaking!
Richardson refutes the widely accepted hypothesis that postwar Japan has been a semiauthoritarian and consensual state, arguing that Japanese political life has been extremely fragmented and discordant at all levels.
Every nine seconds a baby is born in the United States, and in the split second that one life begins, countless others are changed forever. Becoming a father is one of the most wonderful, enlightening, crazy, scary, frustrating, and enjoyable experiences a man will ever go through, yet no one tells you what you are really in for until your child arrives. Daddy Smarts: The First Two Years is as close as it gets. In this follow up to Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Dads, best-selling author and veteran father of three, Bradley Richardson tells you everything you need toknow regarding your baby, your wife, and your life as a dad through the terrible twos-all from an entertaining and informative male perspective. Organized into eight major sections that follow the first 24 months of your child's life, Daddy Smarts: The First Two Years consists of brief chapters, sidebars, and examples from real dads from all walks of life. No subject is off-limits as Richardson advises his brethren on such matters as a baby's many excretions (and how to handle them) and sex (or not) in the post-pregnancy world. Each chapter concludes with a bulleted summary of key points with a suggested action plan and checklist. Eminently usable, conversational, and energetic, Daddy Smarts provides positive and negative scenarios, situations and anecdotes that readers can identify with, learn from, and, ultimately, be inspired by.
Charts the whole course,from the treacherous negotiations about whether to have kids and the ardent attempts at conception to planning for the event, navigating the hospital experience, and bringing your baby home.
When Bradley Richardson, a careers expert, lost his job, he experienced trying to get back into work for himself. In this book he offers a combination of inspirational motivation and jobsmart tips to help form a realistic action plan to help the reader take control of their career.
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