Faking Smart! Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks - GUARANTEED! [Kindle Edition]

Martin Fossum (Author), Matt Cory (Illustrator)

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Product Description

Faking Smart! is a book that will astound, enlighten and terrify any person willing to approach the job market from a new angle. Faking Smart! shows you how to get hired, get promoted and become a VP, in six short weeks – GUARANTEED! That's right, in six short weeks you'll have everything any low-level corporate executive could ever wish for - unlimited horizontal job potential!

About the Author

Karl Wolfbrooks Ager, founder of the FSRI (Faking Smart! Research Institute) and the FSIHL (Faking Smart! Institute for Higher Learning) is a famous author, entrepreneur and business self-help guru. Ager was the recipient of the coveted FSRI Author of the Year Award for 2011.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1247 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004OYT964
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,013 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Martin Fossum is the author of Faking Smart!: Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks - GUARANTEED! He currently lives in Seattle with his wife, Emily, and their mildly psychotic and lovable terrier, Max.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hilariously sarcastic, May 2, 2011

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Workaday Reads - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faking Smart!: Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks - GUARANTEED! (Paperback)

Faking Smart is a program that will not only get you a job, but also get you promoted to Vice President, and all within six weeks.

This was a hilariously sarcastic and over-the-top read. It read like a skit from Saturday Night Live or The Colbert Report. It definitely made me laugh and see the humour in moving through the corporate world. I can see this book appealing to everyone from teenagers who see exectuive positions as unattainable until the distant the future, to executives who will say they wish it had been this easy to get to where they are now.

This was just the book to read as a pick-me-up during the depressing act of job searching.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best crappy read all year!, September 12, 2011

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P. L. Steele "snotbottom" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Faking Smart!: Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks - GUARANTEED! (Paperback)

Inspired by the introduction to the book, I read the whole thing in just one "sitting" while in stall #2, (which is just off the main conference room). I wasn't going to quit until I had finished, no matter how long the line got!

I can't wait to start applying the lessons in Faking Smart to my own career and I'm looking forward to moving from my current position of Tech Zero to VP!

Thanks Dr. Ager and Mr. Fossum for such an extraordinary program! I can't wait to tell everyone that I got there by Faking Smart!

P.S. Thanks for the sticker too!

A fun, tongue-in-cheek, "how-to" book on office politics. The scary thing about this is it could explain just how some folks in my organization made it to where they are.

This was a review of a FirstReads offer from Goodreads.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tee hee hee, November 4, 2011

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d8nni - See all my reviews

This review is from: Faking Smart!: Get Hired, Get Promoted and Become a V.P. in Six Short Weeks - GUARANTEED! (Paperback)

Like all good reads, this one has a robot caper. I've been thumbing through my copy getting a little chuckle for weeks now. It turns out the book IS worth reading, though I must confess I bought it to display on my desk in cubeland as an f-you to everyone who thinks I'm not worth my salt!

Thank you Dr Ager!