| Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success Contributor(s): Schawbel, Dan (Author), Buckingham, Marcus (Foreword by), Chamberlain, Mike (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1482924609 ISBN-13: 9781482924602 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Personal Success - Business & Economics | Careers - Job Hunting |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.5" (0.20 lbs) |
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| Publisher Description: How people perceive you has always been critical to a successful career. Now add in the Internet, social media, and the unrelenting hum of 24/7 business, and the ability to brand and promote yourself effectively becomes absolutely essential for young professionals to land the job, earn the raise, or get that much-deserved promotion. It is only with the ability to promote yourself that managers and executives can see Gen Y workers as invaluable employees, game-changing managers, or the people whose names are synonymous with success. So how do they stand out and get ahead? Drawing on proprietary research and countless interviews with the most dynamic professionals in business today, career guru and founder of Millennial Branding Dan Schawbel takes readers through his step-by-step process of creating unique personal brands and leveraging them to maximum advantage. By basing these brands on the rock-solid foundation of hard, soft, and online skills that are essential to get the job done right and by knowing exactly what managers value, Schawbel provides every reader with the skills and message that they'll need to get ahead today and for the rest of their careers. The subtle and amazingly effective art of self-promotion is the razor-thin difference between success and failure. Schawbel's Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success is the definitive book on the new rules for building an outstanding career. The book containsA 360-degree view of the twenty-first century workplace and how to navigate it successfully.Over 75 interviews with executives, managers, and millennial employees from the most prestigious companies in the world, including Google, Cisco, Aflac, Mattel, GE, Fox News, LinkedIn, State Street, Adidas, Pandora, PepsiCo, Tyson Foods, Ernst & Young, the New York Times, American Express, and more.An exclusive research study in partnership with American Express revealing the top ten attributes managers are looking for when promoting and more.Cutting-edge advice on how to create your own career path, turn your passion into a new position, and become a successful entrepreneur at your company. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schawbel, Dan: - Dan Schawbel, recognized as a "personal branding guru" by the New York Times, is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the author of the number one international bestseller Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future, now in thirteen languages. Schawbel is a columnist for both Time and Forbes and has been featured in over one thousand media outlets, including Wire, PBS's Nightly Business Report, and Elle. He has spoken at Google, NBC Universal, McGraw-Hill, Harvard Business School, MIT, Time Warner, IBM, and Citigroup. He was selected for the"30 under 30" lists of both Forbes and Inc. and cited by Businessweek as someone entrepreneurs should follow on Twitter. Buckingham, Marcus: -Marcus Buckingham spent seventeen years at Gallup, where he conducted research into the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. The Gallup research later became the basis for the bestselling books First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, both of which he coauthored. Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in the New York Times, Fortune, Businessweek, and Fast Company. In 2007 he founded the Marcus Buckingham Company to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations worldwide, and now spreads the strengths message in keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe each year. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children. Chamberlain, Mike: -Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer in Los Angeles. His voice credits range from radio commercials and television narration to animation and video game characters. Stage trained at Boston College, he has performed works from Shakespeare and the classics to contemporary drama and comedy. His audiobook narration has won four AudioFile Earphones Awards. |