This book helps people come to terms with redundancy and turn it into a positive opportunity to do something different.

Turn redundancy into an opportunity to be your own boss and start your own business

This book will help you come to terms with redundancy; then help you to examine all your employment options. One of these will be self employment, and you'll discover a number of opportunities that are available to specialist and experienced managers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

For those wanting to start their own business, it looks at the different options for establishing a product-based or service-based business, or for buying a franchise or an existing enterprise.

Whichever route you choose, you will find help and advice on studying and defining your market, raising finance, building your business and managing the ongoing admin.