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You're Too Smart for This: Beating the 100 Big Lies About Your First Job
Author(s): Michael Ball (Author)
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 0713681438
- ISBN-13: 9780713681437
Book Description
Have you spent thousands of pounds (of your parents’ money) on getting a degree to land your dream job? Are you, in fact, just doing the photocopying and not even getting that right? If so, read on. You’re Too Smart for This tells you everything your university careers service didn’t. It features 100 lies about your first job, including: Promotions are based on hard work; Managers love surprises; No-one minds a show-off…and then offers practical advice on how to deal with them and move on. Witty and easy to read, each mini-chapter features useful quotes and advice from successful businesspeople-all of whom survived their first job and lived to tell the tale.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘A humorous look at the life a graduate new recruit can expect in his or her first job. Ball looks with wit at how to cope with the pressures and politics of being “new”.’ — Publishing News
About the Author
Michael Ball is the founder and CEO of Career Freshman Co., a counselling organisation for twenty-and thirty-something professionals. A former Big Four consultant and Silicon Valley dot-commer, Ball saw too many smart college recruits doing dumb things-besides their jobs-and devoted his own career to making ‘gruntwork’ hurt less. Michael holds a degree in psychology and business from UCLA, and lives in Los Angeles.
