First Job? Coping With Starting Work, Your First Month Survival Guide

By Mark Blayney

A survival guide for your first month at work.

In starting work you will be joining about half a million young other people entering the world of work for the first time and starting to compete in your career.
And you will be entering a world that’s very different from what you’ve been used to in school or college where how well you cope can be vitally important for the rest of your career

First Job? Is here to give you an unfair advantage in getting off on the right foot with the key survival strategies you need to use in your first month at work, those critical things that will get you on your way, without having to learn the hard way.

With a dozen key Dos, a list of definite Don’ts, and a checklist of practicalities you need to consider, First Job? will enable you to hit the ground running and able to cope while others around you may be struggling.

So get your copy of First Job? today and use the tools and techniques it will teach you to make a success of your first month in this new world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Blayney
• Release date: Nov 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9780995617032

Mark Blayney

Mark Blayney is a partner and co-founder of GPS Capital Limited a private equity business and is involved in a portfolio of trading businesses as investor, director or both. He sought a career in business rescue and turnaround from the outset, obtaining an MBA, and then an accountancy qualification and insolvency license while working for PwC’s business recovery service in both the UK and Tanzania, where he ran a match making business and set up a corporate recovery practice. Having been seconded into one of the UK clearing banks and been involved in starting up a turnaround practice within PwC, he left to go into industry, before setting up in business as an independent executive and finance professional in 2000. He is the author of a number of practical guide books for business owners on strategy, management, finance, and creating and realising business value, and has been actively involved in business training and education having spoken at a number of leading UK business schools.

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