Over the last four years, I’ve interviewed over five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, from HR to finance, law firms to tech companies, across the globe.
My conversations revolved around three key topics:
What are the most common mistakes early-career professionals make at work?
What would you do differently if you could relive your first years on the job?
What do you think separates top performers from mediocre ones?
After testing the advice I gathered from these hundreds of interviews, I started coaching other early-career professionals. Now I’m distilling everything I’ve learned into a step-by-step guide called The Unspoken Rules. We all have what it takes to be a top performer. It begins with mastering the unspoken rules.”
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School taught me how to code and debug but not how to turn managers and coworkers into allies. Thanks to The Unspoken Rules, I went from not having anyone to lean on to building lifelong friends and mentors.
I had a massive inferiority complex as a first-generation college student from a liberal arts background. The Unspoken Rules helped me turn that anxiety into confidence.
On a mission to discover and decode the unspoken rules of work and share them with others.
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Gorick Ng is an entrepreneur and author of the forthcoming book, The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Succeeding in Your First Job (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2021).
Gorick is a Research Associate in the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School, where he focuses on talent management and workforce development. He is also a career coach and advisor at Harvard College, focusing on first generation, low-income students.