What All Graduates Need to Know as They Venture Into the Work Force

Jan. 2, 2013 - PRLog -- After over 25 years of working in Corporate America, Claudia Samuels Newton has provided the compass which new graduates and workers entering the workforce so desperately need for guidance in a sometimes intimidating work environment. Experience is the best teacher! Based on Claudia’s personal work experiences and those of hundreds of others, Career Wonders and Blunders: If I Knew Then, What I Know Now will help graduates in a quandary to build a successful career path as they read this guide of unwritten workplace rules. In this book, Claudia identifies subtle realities that this generation of new workers may not be aware of. The checklists and x-lists included in each chapter are what they may not find in their new job’s policies and procedures but it is critical that they should know.

Any new graduate entering the workforce must read this practical book written in easy to understand language and full of solid workplace advice for beginning workers. This is word of mouth instruction from veterans in the workplace. One twenty-year veteran employee states, “You must be able to listen to all those around you, how they got to be successful, and mimic their strategies. Impersonation is the best form of flattery and society and the workplace love this although they play obtuse when they see it done.”

The experiences in this book are sometimes jaw-dropping and may make you shake your head but yes - they are real! This is more than “just another career book.” It is an essential career guide and reference tool that readers will review again and again. Readers will be privy to the powerful advice of successful executives including CEOs. Equally powerful are the candid stories of workers - acquired over the course of their working years on what they know now versus then. Now, new graduates joining the workforce have an essential tool to prevent them from repeating similar mistakes and to empower themselves on their career journey. Seasoned employees will also find this book to be an invigorating refresher.

About Claudia Samuels Newton

Claudia Samuels Newton is an adjunct professor of Communications at the University of Phoenix and the Principal of Rewarding Career and Resume Services (www.rewardingresumes.com).  Her career articles have been published on numerous websites and she has been a guest on local television WLTX (CBS affiliate) in Columbia, SC. She is also a sought-after presenter at colleges and state agencies. Claudia earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, NJ and a master’s degree in Human Resources Management from the University of Phoenix. For more information or to purchase this book directly from the author, please visit  www.careerwondersandblunders.com.  You may also contact Claudia directly at 803-788-8966.