Finding Your Perfect Work Pa

by Sara Edwards, Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards

Book Overview

The complete guide to finding the right career is updated for the twenty-first century by the authors of Working From Home and Making Money with Your Computer at Home . After nearly 100,000 copies... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585422169
• ISBN13: 9781585422166
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Do-it-yourself career guidance that works

As a professional resume writer, President of Guaranteed Resumes, and author of "51 Ways to Find a Job Fast -- Guaranteed," I found this book an excellent tool to help you follow your heart's desires and find your perfect work. I recommend it to all my clients. The simple exercises and real-life examples will start your head buzzing with ideas. And there's a handy chart, listing hundreds of jobs, to help you match your skills and interests with actual job requirements. Excellent stuff. This is the book I wish my high school guidance counselor had read. It should be required reading for all students and adults in search of practical career guidance.

A practical career guide offering personal style surveys

Now in a newly revised and updated edition for the twenty-first century, Finding Your Perfect Work by Paul Edwards and Sarah Edwards is a practical career guide offering personal style surveys, information about degree requirements, an alphabetical directory of self-employment careers, and much, much more. A handy, easy-to-use resource for finding a path in life that one enjoys most, Finding Your Perfect Work is a welcome and recommended addition to personal, job center, and career counseling reference collections and reading lists.

The Best There Is For Determining Right Livilihood!!

As a Career and Business Start Up Coach/ Consultant I help people through the often rocky road to self employment. Now I don't have to do it alone! This remarkable book by Paul and Sarah Edwards is a must have. It once again proves why everyone else models their work. They are without question the nations experts on Self Employment.This book will motivate, inspire, spark your creativity, stretch your mind, and help you clarify your perfect work. It also provides great practical information and resources. I've seen first hand the benefits people get from this book. Believe me, if you follow this process you will arrive at successful self employment!I highly recommend this book to everyone. Especially if you, or someone you know, has ever had a dream or a passion and just can't see how you might make a living from it. Gift yourself with this one. You'll never regret it!

The most in-depth work at home book I have read

As a business consultant for home based business start-ups and self-employment I've found "Finding Your Perfect Work" a most valuable tool. In reading it I found that it goes in-depth into self-exploration which is something a lot of people need to do before attempting to start a business. I also found this book to be an asset in using "real" people as examples. I think we all want to hear about the person who's made it the hard way once in a while. It makes the journey for us that much more realistic. The way the book was divided up into areas such as the Directory of Self-Employment Careers by Personal Style is very helpful and easy to use. When using this book in a workshop, I found that my clients really had to "work" at finding out what they're best suited for...and they all agreed it was worth going through that work. The work sheets provide not only an area for people to get the thought process moving but I feel it also makes them more accountable for what they are doing. I've discovered this book is also a valuable resource for my business along with being a tool in which I can expand and improve my own business. I highly recommend this book to all who are considering going into business for themselves.

The Best Book Yet for Matching You and the Work You'll Love!

You won't be able to put this one down. Involves a very personal approach to matching your natural talents (you'll get help finding them), strengths (the Edwards point the way), loves, and yes, skills, too, with a wonderful new or redesigned life-work. And, this volume is packed full of advice directly related to help you design your "Perfect Work" and put that plan into action. "Finding Your Perfect Work" put me on the perfect path for me! -Jane Miller, Women's Edge