Pragmatic if narrow-focused guide for staying relevant, employed, and employable after 50. Tough love tone sometimes teeters on patronizing, assuming a tech-phobic, ostrich-like audience.

Many thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for the honest review.

Informative, simple, undertanding. A useful career book for literally anyone.

Coming Back is a motivational and practical career guide directed at mid- and late- career professionals who struggle with stagnation, unemployment, reductions or simply hopelessness amidst competition on the job market. This is all true, but somehow I didn't get the memo when I picked up this book - I thought it was simply for people who want to "Come Back" to work at any stage of their career. As a millenial myself, I had a very difficult situation during covid when I was unable to do anything at all to advance my career due to my mental state and a paralyzing frear (even though I was not technically unemployed as a master's student).. So I wanted to come back in the career game and do something about my hopelessness.

Turns out, while this book is indeed directed at mid- and late- career professionals, which is evident in the narrative, it is actually incredibly useful for anyone. This is coming for a millenial - I really loved this book. It is straightforward, kind, understanding, nonjudgemental, and very informative about what you can do to advance your career at any time. Using LinkedIn, social media and direct networking are some of the things I began doing after reading this guide, thanks to which I was able to bounce back into a motivated, can-do state of mind. It didn't go away in a day, but gradually, fear was no longer paralyzing and stopping me from doing anything to advance my career.

I highly recommend this life-changing book not only to its intended audience, but also to millenials like me who already have good work experience, but are pretty much stuck in going anywhere further for whatever reason (including covid or a mental block, like it was in my case).

*Thank you to the Publisher for the advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.