Career Comeback: 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

by Bradley G. Richardson

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

•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.

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Carole Tyrrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not everyone has a game plan in life - I've always envied those people who have a calling in life and know what they want to do from an early age, pursue it and are a success. I should know, I was at college with a lot of them. Most of us bumble along, maybe we're lucky and fall into something we can at least tolerate as maybe there are other compensations that make it bearable.
Jobs aren't easy to come by these days either. However, sometimes desperation can lead you to make a bad career decision and by the time you realise this, it's too late.
I made 2 bad career decisions and boy, have I lived to regret them. It's proved impossible to escape one of them and I am now looking to going into self-employment before I kill people. Even as a temp you still have to be forced into someone else's politics and game-playing.
But Career Comeback offers hope to people like me as it says that a bad career decision isn't irreversible. Even if you end up on benefits and living in your parents garage, you can reverse your situation. As one saying puts it ‘It's not the falling down that's the problem, it's the staying down that is.' Or words to that effect.
The author makes practical suggestions as to how you can reverse your situation and make it positive. It's a book along the lines of Po Bronson's inspiring book 'What should I with my life?' I saw this once in the in tray of a woman for whom I thought it was a question she would never feel the need to ask or even think about.
I finished the book feeling really inspired and in control of my life and destiny again, that I could change my life and move on.
I wish I had read this book before I made my last bad career decision - things might be very different now and I would have saved myself a lot of grief
This book gives hope to those like me grappling bad jobs, bad bosses, and a real sense that our lives are going in a direction we didn't want. There is light at the end of the tunnel - however far away it may seem.
One day I will look back on this time of my life and think that this was the making of me and what it led to.

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of good information in this book. Step 7 and the weblinks make this book worth buying. The first half would have been more useful had I read it immediately after being laid off rather than reading it after I came to that conclusion on my own. Useful book with valuable information.

[Karina · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pretty good book on managing career setbacks.

[Lori Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read book on career management.