Career Book Review: Have you entered yet?

Are you looking to get a job and eventually move up in the world? Do you need to gain experience or maybe just get a job, even if it is a step down for you? underemployment? If so, wow, there is a great book that I read mostly for fun, but while reading it I felt like I was there and I had a much better understanding of what frontline employees in the US go through. The book I would like to recommend to you is :

“Drilling in- The unauthorized adventures of a frontline employee,” by Alex Frankel, Collins Publishers, a HarperCollins Publishers imprint, New York, NY (2007), pp. 223, ISBN: 978-0-06-084966-5.

An interesting article to read that immediately flashed back to my memory upon reading this book was one I read in Quality Progress, an industry trade magazine in November 2007, beginning on page 55 titled; “Situation Change: Six Questions to Ask Your Interviewer”, written by Joe Conklin. In that article, he suggests how to turn tough questions during the hiring process into conversations that elevate your intellectual status, and therefore your value, while also allowing you to gain pre-employment intelligence.

The author of this book writes in a similar genre to the author of “Nickled and Dimed”, but at a higher level of employment, that is, instead of working in places like a 24-hour. Mini-mart Waffle House, Walmart or Gas Station: The author of “Punching In” worked for UPS, Starbucks, Whole Foods and sold iPods at the Apple Store, and also got into the well-known manager program for Enterprise Rent-a-Cos.

Have you ever wondered the secret to how corporations turn their workforce into brand loyalists and an absolute productivity army? Well, read this book and learn how to win in your career for the company, the team, and yourself. This book is very well written, and the writer is quite funny and shows off his writing style with great stories. He also writes for Wired Magazine, so you may have seen his articles there.

Seriously, you have to read this book, it will completely enlighten you and give you a better understanding of what it is like to work in a large corporation on the front lines, companies with thousands of outlets and a specific way of doing things. . As you read, you’ll laugh, frown, and be disturbed, but you’ll definitely learn something, a lot, that you probably didn’t know, and it will give you a better understanding of the reality of jobs in America, especially at the retail level. , It will surprise you.