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Subtitle: tales from the first job front
By: Sydney Lewis
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781565843691
Subjects: Youth; Employment; Job hunting; Attitudes; Work
Description: Young people from across the United States and from all walks of life talk candidly about their first forays into the real world of work.  The honest, first-person accounts offer tips for surviving the first months on the job and other advice not found in typical career guides.  The young authors describe learning the hard way the written and unwritten rules of life on the job, and they talk about dealing with difficult coworkers, tough bosses, criticism, stringent deadlines, dress codes, and harassment.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- 1.; title: "No timetable" : testing the waters -- -- T.J. Devoe -- Gina Parks -- Troy Graham -- Max Leonard -- Jenny Petrow -- 2.; title: "If you knock, the door's open" : finding the passion -- -- Karen Hurley -- Gil Santoscoy, Jr. -- Ray Mancison -- Gabrielle Lyon -- Carl Valentin -- 3.; title: "Just fier me" : harsh realities -- -- Mary Henderson -- Isabel Lucero -- Gillian Moore -- Grace Tilsit -- Julie Baxter -- 4. "A; title: foot in the door" : making their way -- -- Mick Betancourt -- Chico Pinex -- Credell Walls -- Cesar Rivera -- Iliana Roman -- 5.; title: "Real as it gets" : creating careers -- -- Emily Hanford -- Jeffrey Marcus -- Kate McFadyen -- Robert Richman -- Marc Spiegler; title: Epilogue :; title: Where are they now? --; title: Acknowledgments.