From guides on successful interviewing, choosing the right career and writing effective resumes, college seniors and recent graduates have a variety of useful resources to choose from when it comes to finding a good job. But what happens next? What aspects of young professionals' futures should excite them and which should be cause for concern? Most career resources don't offer much insight into working life itself.
What It Will Be Like was written to fill this gap in college seniors' career resources. By drawing on real-world anecdotes, sociological research and the author's experience recruiting college seniors, What It Will Be Like is able to offer a career perspective tomorrow's professionals won't find anywhere else. What It Will Be Like is a captivating, plain English account of working life from the best possible authority on the subject: a graduate who has already torn a few sails navigating the daunting waters the reader is about to tread.
About the Author
Richard Hoyer-Ellefsen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Massachusetts in 1995. He completed his undergraduate studies in economics as a visiting undergraduate student at Harvard University. During his career as a management consultant specializing in mergers & acquisitions, Hoyer-Ellefsen has recruited college seniors to his employers and volunteered as a career advisor during his personal time.
Hoyer-Ellefsen lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he and his and his wife spend most of their free time sailing the Chesapeake Bay.
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