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

From the Publisher

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.

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

What People Are Saying

Ken Blanchard
Whether you're having a quarter-life crisis or if you just want an insider's guide to the working world, read this book. It will teach you to get your career on track by developing a personal mission statement, accentuating the positive and making well-informed decisions. Sage advice from a gifted young writer.
—Co-Author of The One Minute Manager® and The Leadership Pill.

Stacy Kravetz
Alexandra Levit has written a savvy, informative guide for first-timers making their way in Corporate America. Reading this book will get college grads moving in the right direction.
—Author of Welcome to the Real World; You’ve Got an Education, Now get a Life.

Harry E. Chambers
This book explodes with practical and relevant advice for young professionals who want to master the fast track yesterday. As an insider who has battled Corporate America and won, Levit offers a no-nonsense approach that gets to the heart of what really works.
—Author of Getting Promoted: Real Strategies for Advancing Your Career.

Abby Wilner
After four years of jeans and baseball caps and three hours of class a day, workforce newbies need a boot camp like this to face up to the rigors of the working week.
—Co-Author of Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties

Rachel Solar-Tuttle
There's only one thing I hate about this book: that I didn't have it when I was in my twenties! In a compelling and eminently readable volume, Levit lays out the secrets that it takes most of us at least a decade - and a lot of mistakes - to discover.
—Author of Table Talk: A Savvy Girl’s Guide to Networking

Amy Joyce
We've all been through it--many of us with little guidance. But Levit writes of the 20-something life in a way that will help new workers answer questions they don't even know they have yet. Her straightforward, practical advice is something that all colleges should recommend to their outgoing seniors.
—Author of I Went to College for This?: How to Turn Your Job Into a Career You Love

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