The “Unspoken Rules” of Navigating Your Career With Gorick Ng
Gorick Ng is a Career Adviser at Harvard College, specializing in coaching first-generation, low-income students. He is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. Gorick has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Financial Times, New York Post, and CNBC. He was named one of the Top 30 Thinkers to Watch in 2022 by Thinkers50.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Gorick Ng shares how he started helping people navigate their careers
Enabling employees to navigate their workplace system
How to overcome imposter syndrome
The Unspoken Rules and how it resonates with a female audience
The difference between following rules and understanding unspoken rules
Gorick talks about the three Cs in his book and what they mean
Advice on how to tell your story
What does it take to be promotable?
In this episode…
Are you in the early stages of your career and eager to succeed? What do you need to know to plot a clear path toward success, regardless of your background?
After graduating from Harvard as a first-generation and low-income college student, Gorick Ng discovered that schools don’t teach how to be a top performer. Since marganilized groups are often disadvantaged, Gorick had battle his imposter syndrome to achieve the career success he desired, . His struggles inspired him to write a how-to guide for the underrepresented, filled with critical skills needed to navigate the modern workplace.
In this episode of Reclaim Your Career, Jess Galica is joined by Gorick Ng, Career Adviser at Harvard College, to discuss how to be a top performer at work. Gorick shares his inspiration behind helping people navigate their careers, what employees lack to navigate the system of the workplace, and The Unspoken Rules as a guide for career professionals eager to succeed.
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