They Don't Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something's Guide to the Business World

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Overview

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 ...
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Overview

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.

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Soundview Executive Book Summaries
When Alexandra Levit started working shortly after college, she was surprised by the stress induced by the corporate world. After sticking it out and finding the right people to guide her, she discovered how to make it in the corporate world of New York City. In They Don't Teach Corporate in College, she describes how recent college graduates can find jobs, make memorable first impressions, combat negativity, navigate through the corporate social scene and master self-promotion. Copyright © 2005 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781601630582
  • Publisher: Career Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/28/2009
  • Edition description: Revised
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 169,221
  • Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Alexandra Levit is the author of four books and a writer for several career and lifestyle Websites, including the Huffington Post and Yahoo!. Her career advice has been featured in more than 800 media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Public Radio. Levit regularly speaks nationwide at conferences, universities, and corporations on workplace issues facing young employees. A 10 year veteran of the business world, she lives in Chicago with her husband and son.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9
Chapter 1 Find Yourself, Find a Paycheck 15
Chapter 2 Congratulations, You're Hired 41
Chapter 3 Working the Crowd 65
Chapter 4 Be the Master of Your Plan 89
Chapter 5 The Purposeful Workday 111
Chapter 6 Check Your Attitude at the Door 140
Chapter 7 People Management 164
Chapter 8 Moving Up in the World 182
Chapter 9 You're the Boss Now! 203
Chapter 10 Exit Stage Left 229
Bibliography 250
Index 252
About the Author 256

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