Roy loved just doing favors for influential people. And he told his good friend, the gossip columnist, Cindy Adams, that this young Donald Trump was going to go someplace and maybe even to the White House someday.
I find that the key to getting a job is how social you are. Study done at Google. They put out a job opening 200 CVs within like 60 minutes. They shut it down. They bring in the 20 best candidates and 70% of the time the person they end up hiring has an internal advocate.
70% of the time the person they end up hiring has an internal advocate. So, one, a boss, if you're in your 50s, it doesn't matter if you're in your 50s or your 20s. The advice we would give your 22-year-old self, you got to make a bunch of calls.
You're never going to have as dense an opportunity or human capital pool as the one you're going to have in graduate school. smart, talented young people who are all looking to better themselves.
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