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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
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Learn how to use your time as a student to supercharge your career To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear delivers a step-by-step guide to using your educational years to put you in the right position to accelerate your career, optimize your time, and build valuable and rewarding relationships. You'll learn everything you need to know about taking advantage of the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the first ten years of your career. Broken down into 21 accessible chapters, To University and Beyond features a wide array of practical and strategic advice on topics like: * How to write the perfect resume or CV * How to hack your career path to achieve what you've always dreamt of * How to access rarely used scholarships and grants * How to find selective short-term learning programs * How to thrive in a virtual learning environment * How to get paid to learn with options beyond traditional degree programs * How to communicate and present so people get your message Perfect for high school, college, and university students who want to make the most of their time and start their career off on the right foot, To University and Beyond provides a wealth of actionable advice you can put to work today.
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This book delivers a roadmap for students looking to maximize their investment in higher education, offering the tools necessary to stand out among the crowds of eager, young professionals.
—Karim Faris
General Partner, GV (Formerly Google Ventures)
After reading this book, students will know not only what it means to be in the driver's seat of their education and professional careers but also what it looks like to play an active role in their own success.
—Congressman Peter Deutsch
Member of the US House of Representatives (1993–2005)
My assessment of candidates has always been less quantifiable and based more on a gut feeling. Mandee and David have captured and organized the exact qualities that I'm looking for. Better still, they give specific instructions on how to obtain and demonstrate the experience that admissions and talent acquisition professional like me are seeking.
—Debbie Fredberg
Talent Acquisition Manager, Boston Consulting Group
Former Assistant Director of Admissions, Harvard Business School
Former Associate Director of Career Development, MIT Sloan School of Management
The University and Beyond is the book that I wish I'd had as I was entering college and then embarking upon my own career. Although there are elements of inspiration in it, the book stands out for its practical, actionable advice.
In an increasingly competitive world, To University and Beyond will show you how to stand out as you embark upon your career, and it does so in a practical, actionable way.
I've led teams, companies, and organizations for 30 years. How I wish every newly minted college graduate I ever hired would have read To University and Beyond and done what Mandee and David recommend! This is by far the most practical guide to help you find early career success.
—Patrick Mullane
Executive Director, Harvard Business School Online
Prospective and current students as well as recent graduates will benefit from To University and Beyond. The authors' key insights regarding the innumerable opportunities available to college‐aged adults set this book apart as a go‐to resource for anyone interested in catapulting themselves into a career.
—Jackie Gordon
Managing Director, Deutsche Bank
Your first job is often the most important indicator of future career opportunity and success. Mandee and David offer great tips and resources to map out a successful future career path for college students.
—Allison O'Kelly
CEO and Founder of Corps Team
Drawing on decades of education and business experience, Adler and Teten provide tomorrow's leaders with an instruction manual for making the most of college.
—Ethan J. Hollander
Professor of Political Science, Wabash College
To University and Beyond clearly explains making the most out of your education in and out of the classroom. The action‐oriented tips to start and maintain a successful career provided by the book make it a valuable resource for students and professionals.
—Stephanie L. Carey
PhD, Research Professor
University of South Florida, College of Engineering
Eye‐popping college tuition sparks the question from parents and students—“How do I maximize this investment?” Authors Adler and Teten give hundreds of tips and clear directions to guide you through the college years and beyond. A perfect high school graduation gift!
—Eva Bongiovanni
COO of InfoLawGroup and Adjunct Lecturer, Northwestern University
Pragmatic, logical, helpful, and practical. I wish 20‐year‐old me would have had access to this book. Mandee and David do an outstanding job sharing their collective wisdom and insights, often including specific details that can certainly help lead to eminent success in one's personal and professional life.
—Terry W. Knaus
Executive Director
Higher Education Consultants Association
To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear
by Mandee Heller Adler and David Teten
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Names: Adler, Mandee Heller, author. | Teten, David, author. | Jossey‐Bass Inc., publisher.
Title: To university and beyond : launch your career in high gear / by Mandee Heller Adler and David Teten.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Jossey‐Bass, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020055778 (print) | LCCN 2020055779 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119757924 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119758976 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119758983 (epub)
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
About the Authors
1 Why We Wrote This Book
David Teten
Mandee Heller Adler
Mandee and David
2 College Is Not for Everyone: Get Paid to Learn
Notes
3 Before Your First Class
Note
4 Who Do You Know? Who Knows You?
Character
Competence
Relevance
Information
Strength
Number
Diversity
Notes
5 How to Get the Most Out of Virtual Classes and Events
Notes
6 If You're Not at the Table, You're Missing Out: Plan Your Career
In Your Final Year Before Graduation
7 Top 10 Myths Students Believe
Note
8 Write a Resume That Sells
Note
9 Prepare a Personal Marketing Plan
10 Start Your New Job and Don't Get Fired
Note
11 Write a Memo People Actually Read
12 Present So People Will Hear
13 Easy Career Kickstarts That Most People Don't Do
14 What You Will Know by Age 45
15 Internships and Other Work Experience, Locally and Globally
16 Get Paid to Study: Ridiculously Generous Scholarships
Scholarship Databases
The Elite Scholarships
Technology
Science, Engineering, and Math
Social Impact
High School Only
17 Politics and International Relations
Internships with Politicians
Political Science
United States–Europe Relations
United States–Asia Relations
Libertarian/Classical Liberal Politics
Conservative Politics
Progressive Politics
18 Women, Racial Minorities, and Other Underrepresented Communities
Women
Underrepresented Minorities
19 Religious Groups
Christian
Jewish
Muslim
20 Mini‐Universities: Conferences and Communities for Further Learning
Selective Conferences and Communities
Short‐Term Learning Programs for Midcareer Professionals
21 What Happens Next?
Acknowledgments
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
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About the Authors
Mandee Heller Adler is the founder and managing partner of International College Counselors (InternationalCollegeCounselors.com) and its subsidiary Edit the Work (EditTheWork.com). International College Counselors is one of the world's largest education counseling companies, specializing in exceptionally personalized support for students and their families worldwide who seek acceptance to colleges, graduate schools, and boarding schools in the United States. Since 2004, Mandee and her team of expert college advisors have worked one‐on‐one with thousands of families to create individualized plans and to get students accepted into dream schools. Edit the Work specializes in writing support, including college admissions essays, resumes, and cover letters, particularly for college students.
Mandee is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, with honors and two degrees—one from the Wharton School and one from the College of Arts and Sciences. She also earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was selected as a Class Day Speaker. Additionally, she studied at ICADE, a premier business school located in Madrid, Spain, after receiving a fellowship from Rotary International. Her many community‐related activities include serving on the Executive Board of the Penn Fund and volunteering for 13 years as an alumni interviewer for the school. She currently serves as co‐president of the Penn Gold Coast Alumni Association.
Mandee authored two books, From Public School to the Ivy League: How to Get into a Top School Without Top Dollar Resources and International Admissions: How to Get Accepted to US Colleges. She has been featured in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programs, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, US News and World Report, USA Today, Fortune, NBC News, and FOX Business News.
She is a Certified Educational Planner and a member of the Independent Educational Counselors Association (IECA), the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC), and Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA). Prior to starting International College Counselors, Mandee worked as an investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York. She later cofounded HerDollar, Inc., which she sold to Siebert Financial Corp (NASDAQ: SIEB).
Mandee is a South Florida native, and the middle of three sisters. She is the mother of two remarkable daughters, Rebecca and Sara Pearl, and the wife to an extraordinary husband, Dr. Jason Adler, who she met while playing water polo in college. When not meeting with students, visiting colleges or learning about them, she spends most of her free time reading, losing to her mother at Scrabble, and enjoying Friday night dinners with her extended family.
Please sign up for her mailing list at https://internationalcollegecounselors.com/contact‐us and follow her on social media at facebook.com/InternationalCollegeCounselors and twitter.com/College_Experts.
David Teten is CEO of Versatile Venture Capital (VersatileVC.com), a New York‐based venture capital fund. He has also advised such institutional investors as Birch Hill Equity, Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Right Side Capital, and OTMT Investments.
David was formerly a managing partner with HOF Capital, an international venture capital fund backed by over 70 families and organizations across 21 countries, and a partner with ff Venture Capital. He particularly focuses on investing in financial technology, sales technology, and education technology.
David is founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the largest angel group on the East Coast. He was previously a managing director with Evalueserve, a 2,500‐person global research and analytics company, and founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, an investment research firm acquired by Evalueserve. He worked with Bear Stearns’ Investment Banking division in their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team. David holds a Harvard MBA (Second Year Honors) and a Yale BA with a double major in Economics and Psychology (with Distinction in the major). While in college, he founded an IT consulting group specializing in serving nonprofits.
David is the author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, and has published research on investment best practices in Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Private Equity, Institutional Investor, Entrepreneur.com, PE Hub, Techcrunch, and VentureBeat. David is cofounder of PEVCTech.com, an online community focused on helping private equity and venture capital funds make better investments through technology.
He is married and has four children. David grew up in Marin County, Northern California. He trains in parkour and bodyweight exercises. He speaks passable French and Hebrew but has completely lost the Portuguese he learned while working in Brazil.
He founded the “Ambassadors at Large” organization for the 2020 Biden/Harris Presidential campaign.
Please sign up for his mailing list at teten.com, where he writes about entrepreneurship, investing, and life hacks. You can also follow David on social media at:
https://angel.co/p/teten
https://diigo.com/user/dteten
https://linkedin.com/in/teten
https://twitter.com/dteten
https://goodreads.com/user/show/5576313-david-teten
Youtube: https://teten.com/youtube
1Why We Wrote This Book
David Teten
Partway through Yale, I realized that I was surrounded by kids who had advantages I didn't. They were walking right through doors I didn't even know existed.
All my classmates seemed to have attended elite boarding schools and have parents who worked on Wall Street. Meanwhile, my mother was a choreographer, and my father left school in Paris at age 13 to apprentice in a leather goods factory. I had friends getting internships at Goldman Sachs freshman year; I thought Goldman Sachs sold ladies’ handbags.
I had aspirations to have children myself, and I started taking notes on what I was learning about how to “work the system.” I wanted my kids to have the systematic understanding that I lacked. As I advanced, I took more notes, planning to eventually publish a book, but waiting for the right time and coauthor. I finally realized that I had known the right coauthor all along: Mandee Heller Adler, a friend who overlapped with me at Harvard Business School.
As I've learned more since Harvard, I realized what skills really matter for the next generation. Seth Masters, former chief investment officer (CIO) of AB (a $500 billion investment management firm), observes that young people have to be ready for an environment where functional skills depreciate rapidly; where the information economy will be dominant; and where few people will spend a career in the same job category … let alone the same firm.
You need the skills that you can learn in class: how to absorb information, how to ask questions, how to write well, how to be a good team member, foreign languages, programming languages, etc. But you also need skills you will really learn only in a work setting, even if that work setting is a group of students running a club. For example, how to pitch yourself; how to pitch a product; how to build a team; how to run a team.
We certainly think you should take your classes seriously and get good grades. But for most people, the exact material you study in school is far less important than learning how to learn, given how fast skills get out of date.
When I was a junior in college, I suddenly realized there was a whole world of institutions who wanted to give me money or give me a free education, just because I was a young person. Free stuff? Sign me up!
I literally laced up my sneakers and spent 3 hours jogging to every single academic department at Yale, copying down information from the posters on each department's bulletin boards. As a direct result, that year:
I entered a writing contest and won a cash prize.
I won an award from the Yale English department.
I won a scholarship to spend a week at Mount Holyoke College studying German Studies and Europe.
I won a scholarship to study political philosophy for a week in the Czech Republic.
I won a scholarship to spend a long weekend at the US Military Academy (West Point) studying national security issues.
It's not that I was such an amazing candidate. It's just that I applied. Most of my peers were unaware of these opportunities.
We'll save you the jog. We have listed in this book all of the most selective generalist programs we have found and also how to find the niche programs relevant to your particular major and situation. Almost all of these programs are free or highly subsidized, and some are not as competitive as you may think. Taking summer classes is great, but you may get even more value from some of the programs we list.
The opportunities we list not only expose you to new disciplines and parts of the world, but they also look amazing on resumes and graduate school applications! We also list programs focused on young professionals, as opposed to current students. We think it's helpful to have on your radar programs that are relevant for your future self, not just your current self.
One of the reasons people pay so much to attend university is the breadth of the alumni base. But over time I realized that you can meet great people regardless of where you went to school … if you put yourself in other, equally challenging environments. The programs we list are not graduate schools, but they are the functional equivalent of the Ivy League. And what's more, they are often easier to get into because fewer people know about them.
When we were near the finish line of writing this book, suddenly the COVID‐19 pandemic hit globally. This disruptive crisis is making both companies and people rethink the value of formal, in‐person, traditional education. For hundreds of years, most people thought that it was mandatory to live in close proximity with other young adults to get an education. Now people realize that's not necessarily the case.
I'll share another reason I wrote this book: Just like your parents, I have a lot of advice I'd like my kids to follow. And you, like most young people, sometimes don't want to follow your parents’ counsel. But one trick I've learned in raising four kids: if good advice comes from anywhere OTHER than my wife and me, my kids are far more likely to pay attention. So, I'm going to give this book to my kids. Because it looks official with a pretty cover, they're far more likely to heed it.
Your early career years are like the initial financing round for a start‐up company. If you don't hit your key milestones during the critical age 18–23 time period, the next stages get increasingly more difficult.
The core theme of Atul Gawande's book The Checklist Manifesto is:
Checklists improve performance, even saving lives, but …
Most people resist using checklists.
I agree with both of these points. Our goal here is to create a set of checklists for your life in school, as well as in your early career.
Mandee Heller Adler
After working on Wall Street, selling an Internet company, and then running a division of a publicly traded company, I was ready for a new challenge. I wanted a career with meaning, and to use my blessings to help others. To quote Benjamin Franklin, I wanted to “do well by doing good.” I realized that so much of what I had accomplished up to that point was due to advantages I received through higher education, first at the University of Pennsylvania and then later at Harvard Business School. This led me to independent college counseling: I would help other students to reach their academic goals.
Over time, my mission became International College Counselors, a global education advising business with students in 13 countries and counselors across the United States. When I was approached by David to help turn this book into reality, I realized that although I was very good at helping my students get into a top college, what they really needed next was a road map to best take advantage of the opportunities they were being given. This book is the answer. It's great to go to Stanford, but not if you graduate unemployed and without allies. This book will help young adults make the most of their early career years, so that they can maximize their investments of time and money, and become confident and successful citizens. I thank you for reading!
Mandee and David
You're likely investing a lot of money, and a lot of time, to get yourself educated. We definitely did. How can you maximize the benefits of all the years and all the money that you are investing?
To prepare this book, we interviewed dozens of professionals who work with young people early in their career, as well as our classmates from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Harvard Business School and clients of International College Counselors. We asked what were the most effective uses of their time during their education and also probed to learn about what were the least effective uses of their time.
We hope you get a lot of value from our book! Please don't hesitate to contact us via InternationalCollegeCounselors.com and Teten.com.
