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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)
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Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)

by Harvard Business Review, Dorie Clark, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Stacy Abrams, Lara Hodgson
December 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
3h 24m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
Content preview from Taking Charge of Your Career (HBR Women at Work Series)

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Are You Taking On Too Many Non-Promotable Tasks?

by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie R. Weingart

Francesca, a third-year associate at a prestigious law firm (and a young woman we know), loved her job. When her boss asked her to help run the summer intern program, she immediately said yes. It was a chance for her to learn about different departments, meet partners, and showcase her organizational skills. She put a lot of time and energy into it. But once performance reviews rolled around three years later, her efforts were never mentioned. Instead, her boss warned Francesca that her billable hours had fallen behind. She was baffled and disappointed—what she thought would benefit her career didn’t seem to matter at all. ...

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ISBN: 9781647824655