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Welcome to the HBR idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. Getting started

in your career isn't easy. Depending on the economy and the field you've chosen, it can

mean dozens of applications and interviews. And then, even when you've got a job, you

might not understand exactly what you're supposed to do. Who to go to for advice, or how

your organization works. I remember my first few weeks as a young reporter in the New

York Bureau of the Financial Times. Sometimes I did feel like I was crushing it, but most

of the time I felt like I was flailing. I know that transitioning from school to the

work world is even harder if you come from a low-income background or your person of

color in a mostly white company, and you're less likely to have the connections and mentors

that your peers have. Today's gas face many of those trials and tribulations himself.

He's a self-described outsider, who nonetheless found a place in corporate America, and today

he works to help others like him achieve in an insider's world. Gorg Eng is a career advisor

at Harvard, and he's the author of the new book, The Unspoken Rules, Secrets to Starting

Your Career Off-Rite. Gorg, so great to talk to you today. Hi, Allison, wonderful to be here.

Now, there is a lot of advice already out there at this point about how to build a career,

so what did you feel was missing? You're absolutely right. There are plenty of websites, blogs,

forums, videos out there on how to succeed in your career broadly speaking, but what I realized

after doing research on my own for my own purposes and also talking to fellow early career professionals

is that much of the advice out there is focused on how to get a job versus how to succeed once

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