You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal artsDid you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education—and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week.The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren’t unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. You can bring a humanist’s grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future. And if you know how to attack the job market, your opportunities will be vast.In this book, you will learn why resume-writing is fading in importance and why “telling your story” is taking its place. You will learn how to create jobs that don’t exist yet, and to translate your campus achievements into a new style of expression that will make employers’ eyes light up. You will discover why people who start in eccentric first jobs—and then make their own luck—so often race ahead of peers whose post-college hunt focuses only on security and starting pay. You will be ready for anything.
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal artsDid you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education—and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week.The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren’t unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. You can bring a humanist’s grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future. And if you know how to attack the job market, your opportunities will be vast.In this book, you will learn why resume-writing is fading in importance and why “telling your story” is taking its place. You will learn how to create jobs that don’t exist yet, and to translate your campus achievements into a new style of expression that will make employers’ eyes light up. You will discover why people who start in eccentric first jobs—and then make their own luck—so often race ahead of peers whose post-college hunt focuses only on security and starting pay. You will be ready for anything.
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

by George Anders
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

by George Anders

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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal artsDid you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In You Can Do Anything, George Anders explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education—and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week.The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren’t unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. You can bring a humanist’s grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future. And if you know how to attack the job market, your opportunities will be vast.In this book, you will learn why resume-writing is fading in importance and why “telling your story” is taking its place. You will learn how to create jobs that don’t exist yet, and to translate your campus achievements into a new style of expression that will make employers’ eyes light up. You will discover why people who start in eccentric first jobs—and then make their own luck—so often race ahead of peers whose post-college hunt focuses only on security and starting pay. You will be ready for anything.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781478990260
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Publication date: 08/08/2017
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

George Anders is a contributing writer at Forbes, a certified LinkedIn Influencer with 170,000 followers, and the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Perfect Enough. While covering health care for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s, he shared in a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He lives in northern California.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Your Strengths

1 The Explorers 3

2 It's 480 B.C.-You Have an Ax 26

3 You Can Start Anywhere 51

Part 2 Your Opportunities

4 My Job Didn't Exist a Year Ago 79

5 The Problem Solvers 106

6 Frozen Pipes, Thawed Minds 129

7 Ruling the World 149

Part 3 Your Allies

8 Employers That Get It 177

9 Your Alumni Connection 201

10 What Your Campus Can Do 225

11 Prepared Forever 247

Part 4 Your Tool Kit

12 Telling Your Story 271

13 Getting Paid Properly 282

Acknowledgments 293

Snacks for the Road 297

Notes 305

Index 331

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