Based on a mix of interviews, research and personal experience, this book's upbeat advice focuses on tangible tactics that recent college grads and experienced 20-somethings can put to work immediately to enhance their employability now and in the future.

Highlights include:

• Unorthodox but proven job-hunting techniques.
• Making a memorable first impression.
• Navigating the company's social scene.
• Practicing cringe-free networking.
• Mastering goal-setting and self-promotion.
• Stretching the eight plus hours a day spent at work, from effective time management and organization to making every piece of communication count.
• Combating negativity.
• Coping with difficult personalities.
• Troubleshooting the performance review process and anti-promotion situations.*
• Learning to be an effective boss.
• Finding a new position and gracefully exiting from the old.