Carolyn 101
Business Lessons from The Apprentice's Straight Shooter
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Publisher Description
Get solid career advice from successful businesswoman and former Trump Organization executive and costar of The Apprentice in this New York Times bestseller that shows how to take your career to the next level.
Known for her cool demeanor and her no-holds-barred assessments of the candidates in the boardroom on The Apprentice, Carolyn Kepcher co-starred with Donald Trump on the hit reality television show for five seasons. Here, in Carolyn 101, she reveals the secrets of her own success and provides readers with guidance for their professional lives.
By looking at the types of people most often encountered in the workplace, she illustrates her advice with examples from her career—largely within The Trump Organization—showing readers how to:
• ace an interview
• ask for a raise or promotion
• maintain a healthy balance between work and home life
• deal with a difficult boss
• spot and seize potential business opportunities
• dress for success
• be a strong team member or team leader
Inspirational to both recent college graduates entering the workforce for the first time as well as seasoned employees looking to distinguish themselves, Carolyn 101 shows ambitious professionals what they need to do to get ahead and take their careers even further than they had imagined.
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People familiar with Kepcher's stern demeanor and grim expressions on Trump's reality TV show will be pleasantly surprised by her sense of humor and her solid career advice. There are plenty of "the Donald" stories, but Kepcher's focuses on practical workplace strategies, from behaving and dressing appropriately in everyday situations to managing difficult bosses, handling office romances, firing employees and more. Kepcher serves up information confidently and unpretentiously, drawing on her own experiences, such as her travails with a nightmare boss when she first joined Trump's empire. These anecdotes yield aphorisms ("If your boss is a bully, you're probably stronger than he is"), which in turn add up to the curriculum like title. Although some of Kepcher's comments about women using their appearances to get ahead may rankle, her suggestions on interview and r sum protocol, and on asking for a raise, ring true. Following Bill Rancic's You're Hired (Forecasts, Sept. 27), this second book to emerge from The Apprentice this season manages to do what it needs to do.
