From New Recruit to High Flyer: No-Nonsense Advice on How to Fast Track Your Career

by Hugh Karseras

200 + Harvard Business School graduates and other top executives give advice on how to succeed early in your career New graduates are full of potential but sometimes lack the prowess to become a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749445645
• ISBN13: 9780749445645
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great gift for a new graduate

Great book. I found this book is much more practical than many other related books. It contains countless specific tips and steps you can take. And as a previous review notes, there are plenty of books on how to land a job, but this is the rare one that tells you how to excel once you have the job. Very readable, valuable, practical and even humorous at times. The last thing I'll mention is that I like the way the author drew on interviews from a number of sources. I'm suspicious of books that tout the approach of just one successful individual. I might not be like that individual. I find the interview approach much better because it identifies common themes and approaches that have worked for a range of people.

Accuracy of the book reflected in the cover image.

The content of the book is accurate and new. But, most of all it is practical. The major focus is on attitude and doing good work. Between these two focuses you will do great. The book explains how to maintain and brand yourself with an attitude, while also providing the tricks of the trade in doing good work. The book is simple and straight forward. There is very little B.S. I am at the beginning my career and have seen great results so far. After reading the book, I have given to a colleague and to a friend. Both have enjoyed it and wish they had read it earlier in their careers.

A 'bible' every new hire needs to make the most of a new position.

Numerous guides cover how to land a job - but few focus on how to succeed as a new hire. From New Recruit to High Flyer covers everything from project and people management to understanding office structure and relationships, providing real-life examples from those who have succeeded as new hires. Common pitfalls and how to overcome them are included in a 'bible' every new hire needs to make the most of a new position. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

Great advice for anybody with ambition and will to grow

This book has been great and it is helping me a lot. Even though I have started my career some years ago I am still missing some key points. The fact that the author is not only giving his own advice, but he is using the best bits and pieces from people that went to Harvard. I guess that quite a few of these are really intelligent and ambitious guys. Topics that are covered are how to get the right attitude every day at work, how to be systematic in your approach to your career, how to develop the right tools for doing research, how to write and speak effectively, and how to communicate in different situations, and other three important topics that are hard to address when you are just starting in the business world: networking, mentoring, and politics. If you don't think you know it all get this book it will have a possitive return on investment!