You're too smart for this - Michael Ball

Have you spent thousands of pounds (of your parents' money) on getting a degree to land your dream job? Are you, in fact, just doing the photocopying and not even getting that right? If so, read on.

You're Too Smart for This tells you everything your university careers service didn't. It features 100 lies about your first job, including: Promotions are based on hard work; Managers love surprises; No-one minds a show-off and then offers practical advice on how to deal with them and move on.

Witty and easy to read, each mini-chapter features useful quotes and advice from successful businesspeople-all of whom survived their first job and lived to tell the tale.

Michael Ball is the founder and CEO of Career Freshman Co., a counselling organisation for twenty-and thirty-something professionals. A former Big Four consultant and Silicon Valley dot-commer, Ball saw too many smart college recruits doing dumb things-besides their jobs-and devoted his own career to making gruntwork hurt less. Michael holds a degree in psychology and business from UCLA, and lives in Los Angeles.

In 2003 he published @ the Entry Level: On Survival, Success, & Your Calling as a Young Professional(Pure Play Press). Michael's books and seminars have been adopted by schools across the United States, including UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Wisconsin Business School, and Michigan State University.