Wall Street Journal Bestseller
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Are you about to start a new job? What now?
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How should you behave on your first day at a new job? How not to be afraid of responsibility, how to manage the expectations of colleagues and superiors, or how to know relationships and various connections in the company?
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The answers to these and many other questions of the professional world are hidden in unwritten rules that you will not read about anywhere. These rules are not taught in any school, but those who know them advance quickly while others stumble through trial and error. But until now.
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In this practical guide, Gorick Ng reveals these unwritten rules of the world of work. As if he was your mentor, whom he missed so much when he started his career. Based on more than five hundred interviews with workers in various positions in various types of employment, it shows the biggest mistakes that people make in the work process. Filled with charts, overviews, and case studies, the book offers concrete strategies to help you answer the questions you'll inevitably encounter on the job:
•How should I treat my superiors?
•How do I build relationships when I work from home?
•How do I ask for help without appearing incompetent or lazy?
•How should I push myself?
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The Unwritten Rules is a book full of inspiration to set you up for a fulfilling career.
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GORICK NG is a career counselor at Harvard University, where he focuses on coaching students from low-income, first-generation immigrant families to the US. He was selected by Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most important future leaders from around the world and has also been featured in the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, New York Post, World Journal and the CBC.