作者：LaurenA.Rivera
出版社：PrincetonUniversityPress
副标题：HowEliteStudentsGetEliteJobs
出版年：2015-5-4
页数：392
定价：USD35.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780691155623
内容简介
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Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn’t, and why.
Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America’s most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent—what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it—that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "right stuff" that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.
Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.
作者简介
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Lauren A. Rivera is associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
目录
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Acknowledgments
1. Entering the Elite
2. The Playing Field
3. The Pitch
4. The Paper
5. Setting the Stage for Interviews
6. Beginning the Interview: Finding a Fit
7. Continuing the Interview: The Candidate’s Story
8. Concluding the Interview: The Final Acts
9. Talking It Out: Deliberating Merit
10. Social Reconstruction
11. Conclusion
Appendix A. Who Is Elite?
Appendix B. Methodological Details
Appendix C. List of Interviews
Notes
References
Index
评论 ······
不如论文精彩
就是这本书坚定了一个信念，即便我已经从东京大学硕士毕业，我也一定要尽快去修读一个全世界都认可的名校学位，i.e.哈佛MIT普林斯顿耶鲁牛剑！只有这几间才是真名校，其他那些多好多好我不听，回国谁知道你什么苏黎世理工、东京大学啊！人家认的国外名校就那么几间，其他根本不值得！我一定要上牛津，一定一定一定！
这本书对于EPS招聘流程的描述，已经可以用来作为B-school学生就业面试的参考书了。但是言归正传，虽然关于教育和阶级再生产的理论已经有很多著作，但是研究EPS招聘的大概才是第一本。看完一遍，感慨颇深，特别是读完MBA第一年之后，很多东西都要自己体会。另外说一下Rivera教授的课，算是我在Kellogg第一年最有收获的几门课之一。
找律所、投行、咨询工作的可以读读，非常有趣
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