What do all college graduates have in common? A degree. So, what is going to separate you from the rest of the pack? Your success will be largely measured by your soft skills, such as: the right attitude, a professional demeanor, the ability to communicate on a professional level, being a team player, proper etiquette, and much more. In a flash, you have gone from college student to employee and may not realize there is a lot more to learn. This book will help you understand what your boss wants you to know, but does not have time to tell you. Employers across the country say many college graduates are not prepared for the real world. How can this be? You just spent four (or more) years getting a great education. Surely you are prepared by now. Until you are in the workplace experiencing the issues addressed in this book, you will not know. At this point in your life, you do not know what you do not know.They say you are not ready. After you read this book, you will be ready. Your college years were some of the best years of your life. Now, the best is yet to come.
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Nancy Barry is a motivational speaker and author who has a passion for helping recent college graduates succeed in their careers. She has spoken to thousands of young professionals helping them understand the importance of soft skills in the workplace. Nancy shares her extensive business experience to shorten the learning curve for twentysomethings entering the workforce. Prior to starting her own company, Nancy spent twenty-five years in the corporate world. For the last sixteen years of her career, she worked for The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV, where she served as Vice President of Community Services and Vice President for The Dallas Morning News Charities. Nancy is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the National Speakers Association and the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
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This review is from: When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates To Know (Hardcover)
[[ASIN:1933285877 When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates To Know]]What a gift for that graduating senior: "When Reality Hits" by Nancy Barry. Yes, better even than a Piaget Polo watch. This book could help that grad be such a success he or she could acquire a dozen of those Piagets and drive them around in a Jaguar XK. Nancy Barry is right on target as to what the soon-to-be graduate and recent graduate should know and be sensitive to - and practice in the business world or professional world - or any world. It's a perfect text for internship programs. For senior seminar classes and similar courses. It is pragmatic with an underlying theme of being politically savvy in your career and above all ethically savvy and a practitioner of same. It is so beautifully written. Conversational. Crisp. No wasted words. Direct. Interesting. Easy reading. Loaded with that practical advice that every new graduate (and those long-time graduates) so desperately need to succeed in an increasingly highly competitive world. Simply stated: "Totally helpful." Jack Raskopf. professor emeritus, Texas Christian University Schieffer School of Journalism
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This review is from: When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent Graduates To Know (Paperback)
Barry's book is not only spot on, but timlier than ever! This is a must read for recent grads and companies seeking to understand the enigmatic Gen-Y and Millennial generations. If you manage young people in your business, this is the definitive book for you!
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Parents - tell your adult son to put down the Wii/PlayStation and read this book!,
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This review is from: When Reality Hits: What Employers Want Recent College Graduates To Know (Hardcover)
If you think that your education stops with a college degree, you're wrong. Nancy Barry does a great job of educating especially the college-aged student that there is still much more to learn in life - and these "soft skills" aren't in some text book, but you will be tested on them and your grade in how well you communicate and get along with people will most likely determine how far you go in life. This is basically the premise of Barry's book - a no-nonsense, practical guide to etiquette, manners and plain old common sense that this younger generation clearly is lacking. With their iPods, baggy jeans, shaggy hair and lack of enthusiasm, Gen Y's "SuperNanny" of the boardroom is Nancy Barry telling it like it is and giving guidelines on how to dress appropriately, how to make a good and lasting impression, how to move up the corporate ladder, and how to be happy along the way! Great gift book to give to new recruits fresh out of college in your business or really to any young person you care about that obviously doesn't care enough about themselves.
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