Overview
Are you taking long lunches?
Ignoring sexual harassment?
Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like
you don’t have enough to do?
The answer to all three should be—yes, if you want to succeed in your career on your own terms.
BRAZEN CAREERIST
This irreplaceable career handbook gives anything but standard advice to the next generation of workers. Penelope Trunk, expert career advice columnist, has been providing indispensable guidance to millions of members of Generations X and Y for years. She knows that young employees today are breaking new ground in the business world and searching for fresh ways to reach their career goals on their own terms. And in Brazen Careerist, Trunk outlines the best strategies for these workers to get to the top in the business world without necessarily climbing the corporate ladder that their parents’ generation clung to. Her original and highly-effective recommendations will help readers adopt the goal-oriented, irreverent and free-thinking attitude that is necessary to thrive in work and in life. This essential guide offers 45 new rules for surefire success, including advice on:
- Office politics: It’s more important to be liked than to be competent.
- Job hunting: Consider making a strategic move to live at your mom’s house again.
- Bosses: There are no bad bosses, only whiny employees.
The rules for success have changed, and if you want to get ahead you’ll need the brazen, yet effective advice in this book. It is guaranteed to get you thinking bigger, acting bolder, and blazing trails you never thought possible so you can succeed in your career—on your own terms.