{"product_id":"9781440629198","title":"The C Student's Guide to Success: How to Become a High Achiever Without the Best Grades, Connections, or Pedigree","description":"A very practical, step-by-step guide to career success for those who lack top grades or family connections.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is not for those people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe C Student's Guide to Success\u003c\/i\u003e, leading advertising executive-and former C student-Ron Bliwas presents a program of ten can't-fail principles for climbing to the top using your brains and talents-rather than family connections or fancy degrees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBliwas uses 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 the come-from-behind success stories of his subjects, Bliwas provides creative, insightful, down-to-earth advice for new graduates, the recently employed, and those with a few false starts under their belt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ten simple chapters, Bliwas teaches you how to:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_ Make the most of many mentors\u003cbr\u003e_ Trust your instinct\u003cbr\u003e_ Strive to be a better person than employee\u003cbr\u003e_ Take responsibility seriously\u003cbr\u003e_ Master the art of purposeful learning\u003cbr\u003e_ Take advantage of unexpected opportunities\u003cbr\u003e_ Sell what you believe\u003cbr\u003e_ Go where the stars aren't\u003cbr\u003e_ Be a smart risk-taker\u003cbr\u003e_ Overcome straight-line thinking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBliwas 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.","brand":"Temple Publications International, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142706938096,"sku":"9781440629198","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440629198_p0.jpg?v=1763786064","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440629198","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}