Backing U!

“Backing U! will start your career search with passion, then guide you step by step with rigorous screening tools Vaughan Evans developed during his extensive business experience. You’ll end up with a career option that not only inspires you but gives you every chance of success. This is a terrific, original addition to career guidance books.” – Barbara Sher, author of Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want and I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

“Uncertain that you’re in the right job or career? Backing U! is a fresh, lively, in-depth guide on how to assess your work situation and shift to work you’ll feel passionate about. What makes it stand out from so many other career books is its business perspective. It guides the reader through original tools and realistic case studies on the route to achieving career happiness and success.” – Julie Jansen, author of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This.

“If you are wondering whether you are in the right job or business, Vaughan Evans’ Backing U! will re-ignite your passion. Rich, detailed examples bring his innovative ideas to life. As you apply his time-tested business tools to your career, you’ll gain insight, clarity, and the motivation to succeed!” – Carol L. McClelland, PhD, author of Your Dream Career For Dummies.

“This is a thorough work on achieving career success, full of innovative tools and charts, which I love! Readers will appreciate how they clarify the issues that are key to career development.” – Daniel Porot, author of The PIE Method for Career Success and summer workshop co-leader with Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

“A novel, engaging and high-energy way of getting the most out of your working life!” – John Lees, author of How To Get A Job You’ll Love.

“Backing U! is great, especially for someone like me that loves logical processes. It has some fantastic exercises for helping people to find and land a job with passion, fervor and spirit, what Vaughan Evans calls your hwyl. If you want guidance in shifting to a job you love, this excellent book is for you.” – Catherine Roan, managing director, www,careershifters.org

“Backing U! uses tools developed by the author over many years to assess the viability of small businesses and cleverly adapts these for individuals to assess themselves as if they were a business. Applied to both the employed and self-employed the reader is taken on a detailed and challenging journey to discover whether they should indeed be backing themselves. Vaughan Evans introduces many techniques to help to achieve this, including the wonderful Welsh concept of hwyl – your driving passion – without which the journey could founder. It is clear what his hwyl is and he does an excellent job of conveying that to the rest of us.” – Dr. Barrie Hopson, author of Build Your Own Rainbow.

“An innovative approach to getting your career on the right track.” – Nick Williams, author of The Work We Were Born To Do.

“As with business, career change is not a one stop destination, more a continuing evolution. And underpinning success in both is usually fundamental engagement or passion. Backing U!’s very novel approach and tools use exactly this principle, helping you re-inject vision into an existing direction or to find a satisfying new one. Backing U! brings business-like rigour into the career transition process. Some may be put off by the charts, the lists, and the ratings. But for those who relish thorough, disciplined analysis of career options, Vaughan Evans’s intelligent, lucid and lively bookwill be most welcome.” – Sonia Lakshman, career coach, owner of One Smart Step

“An in-depth read if you want to take a look at your own career possibilities from all angles. The book helps you do the thoughtful work needed to achieve what career success looks like to you. Filled with helpful questions, answers and examples, Vaughan Evans offers sound self-development advice and business perspective. Chapter by chapter, he guides you through a business-focused approach to challenge your thinking so you can develop useful strategies on career growth or change. Backing U! is for anyone committed to finding the highest satisfaction in their work.” - Gayle Lantz, author, Take the Bull by the Horns: The Busy Leader’s Action Guide to Growing Your Business…and Yourself , Founder & President, WorkMatters, Inc.

“Want a unique business approach to careers and jobs? Then Vaughan Evans’s book, BACKING U!, is for you! Evans’s novel method is ‘top down instead of bottom up.’ He uses ‘out-of-the-box’ and ‘what if’ scenarios, to enhance the contents of this book. The ’suns and clouds’ concept charts for evaluating opportunities and uncertainties are also very special!”  – Don Sutaria, author, CAREER AND LIFE COUNSELING FROM THE HEART (Your Career is a Pathway to Your Soul!), Founder, President & Life-Work Coach, CareerQuest

“Manage your career as though it was a business! In my MBA courses on strategic management, I encourage my students to apply the tools of strategy analysis to their own careers. Well, here’s a book that explicitly (and engagingly) advocates precisely that approach. Viewing ones career as a business to be nurtured offers a new and insightful perspective on career development. Our careers are the by far the biggest investments we make in our lives. Vaughan Evans encourages us to deploy the same tools of rigorous business analysis to evaluate career decisions as a venture capitalist would to evaluate an investment in a start-up business.” - Robert Grant, author, Contemporary Strategic Analysis, Professor of Strategic Management, Bocconi University, Milan

“Impressive… great concepts.” – Daisy Swan, career coach, California

“Comprehensive… I will recommend it to clients.” – Lynn Berger, career coach, New York