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Summary: A great update on classic job advice
Review: "Wildly Sophisticated" is a modern take on classic themes. The fact of the matter is, Nicole Williams addresses the concerns of the modern career women in an upbeat, empowering way. Every woman with the desire and will to succeed will appreciate this book. It also helped me to understand and confront the issues that affect the modern young woman, such as how to integrate a fufilling work life with a satisfying personal life. All in all, "Wildly Sophisticated" is a worthwhile read, especially for any working woman under 40.
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Summary: Extremely Beneficial
Review: After reading Wildly Sophisticated and doing the excercises, I felt like I had discovered so much more about myself. The things I discovered were things that I always had, but I didn't realize it until I had done some of the excercises in the book that provoked my thoughts and made me realize what I had to offer to the world and what my goals were. Since reading this book, I have become more confident, interviewed for a job and then got the job (a professional one), and really discovered my potential. This is not your oridnary self-help career type of book, but is so much more and you will never know unless you take the time to just read it. Being skeptical myself, I know tell everyone I know about it because it has been that benefical to me.
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Summary: Not Only Wild Sophisticated, but Wildly Useful!
Review: Finally there is a fun-to-read career self-help book for women that does not talk in generalities. This book is packed with down-to-earth ways to evaluate yourself, your goals, your career choices, and your current situation. Chapters include: "Who Do You Think You Are?" "Are You Up For A Challenge?" and "What Are You Revealing?" This book could get you off your desk chair and take you to the top of your field. Great career advice with a slant towards the savvy, smart female.
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Summary: Excellent for the fashion tips alone
Review: I found the book to be helpful on a number of fronts, particularly the coworker interaction tidbits and the fashion tips.
Coming from a relatively sheltered small town, learning all those fancy big-city sophisticated ways that the rest of the company executives have can be hard. While some of the tips in this book were baffling (like the whole section on how sexy you should be; why is this relevant to my career?), most of this book was great.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I started reading this book and only read about a quarter of it before I finally threw it down in disgust. Be different but not too different, you wouldn't want to stand out. Be sexy, but not to sexy, you wouldn't want people to think your sleeping with the boss. It's ok to carry last season's handbag. Honestly this book drove me nuts. It constantly states things and then takes it back. I ended up giving my copy away to a friend who is going into a business career. This book would probably be great for a Cosmopolitan reading, big city girl. I picture a girl like Jessica Simpson loving this book.
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Summary: Perfect Book for Future Graduates!
Review: I work in the HR / Recruiting field and am always amazed by the number of people whom I interview that don't know what direction they want to go in their career. Wildly Sophisticated helps ladies emerging into the workforce or making a change to do some deep searching to find out what they want to have happen in their careers and how to be "Wildly Sophisticated".Nicole Williams has hit the nail on the head with this book! She's smart, entertaining and has a great writing style! If you need to purchase a book to help guide a future graduate, buy this book now! Give it to them before they graduate - or when they start school - so they can begin their journey now!
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Summary: Helpful for women just getting started in business...
Review: This book combines a number of helpful career excercises with real-life stories from women, common-sense advice, and a smart, young attitude. I particularly liked the excercises that help you identify your passions and talents, and help guide you while you try and figure out which directions to go in business. I wish someone had shown me this stuff even as early as high school, so that I could have saved myself a lot of soul searching and mistakes. The excercises she included really made me feel good about my particular talents and would have been helpful in establishing my career path. I am a 25-year old small-business owner (I do landscaping), and while I found a lot of the excercises and advice helpful, they were geared more towards people working in the business world, as employees rather than as employers. I think this book would be most helpful for those who are just beginning in their careers and perhaps need inspiration and support while they navigate common career issues and find their personal career path. I certainly wish someone had bought it for me years ago! It would have saved me a lot of time and stopped me making some silly mistakes.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book was exactly what I need. It is empowering and accurate. I would highly reccommend this book to anyone looking for an emotional boost. I found it highly motivating.
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Summary: it is what it is
Review: When I first heard of this book I was very excited to read it. I am getting ready to graduate from my university and was desperately trying to find a job in my field. I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted and told employers I would take anything! After receiving this WILDLY SOPHISTICATED, I was amazed with my new confidence. This book reads very smoothly and doesn't bog you down with out of reach concepts. It contains read world terms and several exercies to help you figure out who you are and what you want. After going through the exercises, I was able to examine myself and where I was at, I was then able to figure out where I wanted to be.
With my new found confidence and drive, spiffed up my resume, put on my most empowering suit and I attended a job fair at my university. Shaking hands and passing out resumes is what it was all about. I told potential employers exact what I wanted to do and how I could help them. I then went home and hand wrote notes to those companies I was most interested in. My response? Every Company I wrote a note to called me and after interviews I had several job offers.
So this book gave me so much confidence and gave me a passion for my work and I know now exactly where I want to be.
I recommend this book for graduating students or thoses already in the real world that aren't sure where they are or where they want to go.
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