The Unspoken Rules Part One
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 1 May 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
You've landed a job. Now what?
To help answer that question, we're joined this weekend by Gorick Ng, author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right.
No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted.
The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules, the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don't explain and that top performers do but don't realize.
The problem is, these rules aren't taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error.
Until now.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jill on Money podcast. It is the weekend. It's May 1st. Oh my gosh. It's |
| 0:10.0 | amazing. Thank goodness because April was long cold and rainy for us here in the Northeast. |
| 0:16.4 | Hope you are enjoying your first day of May. May day. Let's tell you what's up for this weekend. |
| 0:24.2 | We have a wonderful guest, a young man named Gork and young, really young. He works at Harvard |
| 0:30.8 | Business School. He's a career coach. He went to Harvard. He's got a zillion things, but he wrote a |
| 0:35.8 | book that caught our attention. And it's called the unspoken rules, secrets to starting your career |
| 0:43.3 | off right. Now, why did we find this interesting? First of all, May, actually, people are really |
| 0:49.8 | going to graduate. And I think that a lot of the advice in this book is really important, |
| 0:58.3 | especially if you're starting a career after feeling disconnected. And you will be doing so |
| 1:04.7 | in a very strange environment, maybe not even being in the exact same location as the other |
| 1:11.9 | folks starting. So this advice is really evergreen, but especially now as we think about what it |
| 1:21.2 | must be like for, you know, a 22-year-old to start work without actually seeing other people, |
| 1:27.5 | except on a Zoom. The advice is great. So here is the first part of our interview with Gork |
| 1:34.0 | Eng. I want to talk about your mother. I love your mother. I wanted to hear so much more about |
| 1:38.5 | her in the book, because you say that you were raised by a single mother. She sounds like a pretty |
| 1:43.6 | tough broad, as they say. So tell us about your mom. Yeah, she is, she's my role model. And she's |
| 1:52.5 | made me the person that I am today. She dropped at a school when she was 12 years old to support |
| 1:58.8 | her brothers through high school. She was born and raised in Hong Kong. And she spent her entire |
| 2:04.4 | career working as a sewing machine operator. That was at least until I was around 14 years old |
| 2:10.8 | when her factory went through a downsizing. She was laid off. And I, as the person in the house who |
| 2:18.8 | knew how to get onto the internet, who was proficient at English, became the person to step up and |
| 2:24.7 | to help my mom get back on her feet. She ended up switching careers. She ended up working in a day |
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