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On the Job: How to Make It in the Real World of Work - Softcover

Viscusi, Steven

 
9780609806869: On the Job: How to Make It in the Real World of Work

Synopsis

A helpful guide to coping with the challenges and obstacles of the modern-day workplace links personality with business success and offers helpful advice on how to keep one's balance and sanity in an unpredictable environment, establish an identity that reflects one's skills and goals, communicate effectively, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Stephen Viscusi is a careers professional who has helped thousands of people solve job-related problems. He is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show On the Job. He is also president and founder of the Viscusi Group, an international search firm, rated one of the top ten executive search firms by Crain’s New York Business. He lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap

career counseling is going to help you figure out how to get a coworker to quit snooping through your e-mail, how to deal with an underground romance that has accidentally become public knowledge, or how to regroup and save face after a disastrous client meeting. Finally, here s a book that explains how the world of work really operates, and how to navigate it.

On the Job combines the hard-hitting advice of Stephen Viscusi, one of today s best-known experts on job-related problems, with enlightening this could happen to you scenarios and true-life stories. In this manual for every kind of on-the-job predicament, Viscusi provides strategies for:
* Keeping your balance and sanity in an unpredictable and frequently unfair world
* Establishing an identity that reflects your skills and goals but not your most intimate secrets
* Communicating effectively in every venue, from meetings to e-mails to gossip

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