If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.

I took a thousand dollar loan and built a five billion dollar business, and now I make smart investments in new businesses on Shark Tank. This is Barbara

Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual. Today I'm Business Unusual

I'll answer your questions about business, motivation, life, or anything

else on your mind.

But first, so you've gotten a job as an intern and you want to prove yourself the perfect student, learn what you can learn, and hope to get the job offer.

Well, I can tell you that being the perfect student has nothing to do with getting the job offer,

because at work, it's all about attitude and what you can

actually do for the company that gets you the job offer. In school everything is about

how smart you are and getting the perfect grade and doing your homework.

But at work, it's all about how fast you can move, how quickly you could get the job done, and what creative way you could think of to do it even

better. That has nothing to do with what you learn in school. It has everything to do

with what you're about to learn about in the workplace. How do you do, not how do you learn about in the workplace.

How do you do not how do you learn?

Everything about you in your new job

should reflect a positive attitude if you want to get ahead

especially in a corporate environment where it's easy to get lost in the shuffle of too many people.

You need to be the one individual in the large corporation that radiates positivity.

That as you go by people go, wow, that kid's amazing.

That's the report card you want to hear about in the workplace.

Next, you need to be eager to learn and always offer help without being asked.

I can tell you as a boss, the individual that comes up and offers help without me even thinking about it, I fall in love with. You need to dress one

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