Based on a mix of interviews, research and personal experience, this book's upbeat advice focuses on tangible tactics that recent college grads and experienced twenty-somethings can put to work immediately to enhance their employability now and in the future. Highlights include: * Unorthodox but proven job-hunting techniques.
* Making a memorable first impression.
* Navigating the company's social scene.
* Practicing cringe-free networking.
* Mastering goal-setting and self-promotion.
* Stretching the eight plus hours a day spent at work, from effective time management and organization to making every piece of communication count.
* Combating negativity.
* Coping with difficult personalities.
* Troubleshooting the performance review process and anti-promotion situations.
* Learning to be an effective boss.
* Finding a new position and gracefully exiting from the old.
Author: Alexandra Levit
Publisher: Career Press
Customer Reviews
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Practical Advice
Practical, insightful advice to help grads assimilate to the real world. Great to learn about the professional climate and how you can fit in!
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A Priceless Treasure For All Ages
At age thirty-two, I found this book to be enlightening, informative and life-changing. Alexandra Levit writes in a wonderfully warm, readable style that's the perfect combination of personal and professional. I've been working for over fifteen years, so I've had to learn some of the corporate world's lessons the hard way-developing a corporate persona, maintaining a positive attitude, and not "shoulding" all over myself. I also appreciate the excellent advice for goal-setting, saying no gracefully, and polishing my interpersonal and communications skills. Throughout the book, Levit clearly and concisely outlines how to get ahead and what mistakes to avoid. My only complaint is that I didn't have this book when I was in college! I urge all college students to read this and refer to it often, because the knowledge and skills you'll learn will help you not only at work but also in transforming other areas of your life.
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They Should Teach This Course in College
Great practical advice about how to navigate the often heavily steeped in politics world of corporate America. This author is insightful, but has a sense of humor as well. Readers will benefit from reading this book because she offers key pieces of advice that can be applied immediately. I especially like the section that deals with how to get along with co-workers, and why it's important to have friends at work. Too many books advise not talking too much to anyone at work, and she gives a more realistic viewpoint that twenty somethings can relate to.
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<br />Anne Brown, Author
<br />Grad to Great
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Something for everyone in this book
This book would be perfect required reading for anyone who intends to work in a business after they leave school. For those of us much longer in the tooth than the author, we forget just how much newbies do not know about the business world. Her insights are honest, refreshing, often humorous and absolutely bang on. I can just imagine how fantastic an employee she became through this introspection. If you read it so it helps you guide new employees, or for your own growth, there is something for everyone in it. Organized, easy to read and quick.
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