Considering self-employment?
Have you got personal drive, vision and determination to succeed? Yes - you have all these in abundance... so are ready to take it full-steam ahead into the highly attractive world of working for yourself and leaving the old you behind.
But before we start how did you get to this current point of thinking - has your work so far been just a series of job changes - none of which are adding up to anything much - although you may have learnt something new or some skills from each of these jobs, you cannot see yourself being inwardly happy - or maybe you have had a job change forced upon you by being about to be made redundant or indeed this has already occurred and you are now thinking " I do not want this to happen to me again! "
Well, where do you start to plan this new you and do you have the necessary knowledge to start out on the right track and create the new sole trader & entrepreneur you know lies within you.
Setting up in business can be a daunting prospect filled with trepidation, but it can also bring you in touch with overwhelming feelings of excitement and freedom. You're not sure what to do next but you know that you've got what it takes to make it happen, no matter what.
Skills Quest can help point you in the right direction and assist in making the transition to working for oneself that much easier.
- Job changes - redundancies - new business opportunities identified
- Links to Prime
- Other help
- Social enterprises
- Registering a new business - advice on how to do this