C Student's Guide to Success: How to Become a High Achiever Without the Best Grades, Connections, or a Pedigree

A very practical, step-by-step guide to career success for those who lack top grades or family connections.

C Student's Guide to Success: How to Become a High Achiever Without the Best Grades, Connections, or a Pedigree

By Ron Bliwas
A very practical, step-by-step guide to career success for those who lack top grades or family connections.
Some people graduate from college, and employers covet them: They are the best and the brightest, with stellar grades and great connections, able to land their dream jobs with major corporations right after school. This book is not for those people.
This book is for everyone else. The author presents a program of 10 can't-fail principles for climbing to the top using your brains and talents rather than family connections or fancy degrees.
Includes real-world stories of business leaders, revealing how they identified and overcame their own weaknesses, and vaulted ahead of peers who had money and family connections.
In surveying these come-from-behind success stories, Bliwas provides creative, insightful, down-to-earth advice for new graduates, the recently employed, and those with a few false starts under their belt.
You'll learn to:

Make the most of many mentors
Trust your instinct
Strive to be a better person than employee
Take responsibility seriously
Master the art of purposeful learning
Take advantage of unexpected opportunities
Sell what you believe
Go where the stars aren't
Be a smart risk-taker
Overcome straight-line thinking

The book encourages readers to embrace unconventional strategies, unexpected opportunities, and their own instincts, and to realize that opportunities for career growth exist everywhere - not just on the traditional path to job advancement. 256 pages. Hardcover. 2007.
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