From New Recruit to High Flyer: No-Nonsense Advice on How to Fast Track Your Career

200 + Harvard Business School graduates and other top executives give advice on how to succeed early in your career New graduates are full of potential but sometimes lack the prowess to become a rising star. Firmly aimed at future CEOs, New Recruit to High Flyer provides the means to rise up from the trenches and move up the corporate ladder into a bigger, more visible role within an organization.
Focusing initially on attitude, the most important factor in achieving career success, Karseras moves on to encourage the development of the fundamental skills required to succeed: a systematic approach to work, performing excellent research and analysis, developing strong communication skills and becoming highly proficient at project and people management. He also instructs on how to navigate the political organization by building networks, developing mentors, understanding the political maneuverings of the work environment.

In this book firmly aimed at future CEOs, 200-plus Harvard Business School graduates and other top executives give advice on how to succeed early in one's career.

In this book firmly aimed at future CEOs, 200-plus Harvard Business School graduates and other top executives give advice on how to succeed early in one's career.

Hugh Karseras is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School. After graduating from Harvard in 2001, he worked for McKinsey & Co., where he was soon promoted to his first executive-level position. He is currently Associate Director of the strategy and planning group at Barclays Capital, a leading investment bank.