STAFFORD, Va., March 17, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Experience, as they say, is the best teacher, which holds very much true in business and the professional work environment. More often than not, the most seasoned professionals have been honed by years of trial and error, that is, by learning through their mistakes. Successful professionals, however, learn from the mistakes of others. During strained economic times, the most informed professionals stand a greater chance of pulling luck to their side. Consequently, a new graduate or a former member of the military who has recently entered the highly competitive job market faces a daunting challenge.
Seasoned professional and author J. A. Rodriguez Jr. helps those entering the workplace advance their careers by revealing insights from his extensive experience in Not Intuitively Obvious. Culling from twenty-one years of handling leadership roles, Rodriguez compiles the valuable professional lessons he has learned into one informative book.
Rodriguez presents a how-to on securing expectation fulfillment and managing the organizational perceptions that guide a professional's destiny from both an employee and a senior manager's perspective; offering guidance not normally discussed in new employee orientation programs. He provides advice on establishing a rewarding mindset from day one, which facilitates all other aspects of the job. Rodriguez stresses the importance of creating one's professional value, trust and reputation, shaping the boss' perception, and provides a workbook that enables the reader to conduct a professional self-assessment and develop a path forward.
No matter what the professional field, Rodriguez's revealing insights on job security, organizational perspective, significance of customer, perception management, and expectation fulfillment are universal and applicable in most any workplace. While dispensing timely and important advice, Rodriguez also compiles a memoir of the lessons that have helped him succeed. The winding thoroughfare forging professional success is Not Intuitively Obvious, but J. A. Rodriguez, Jr., offers them to those desiring to know that which is often unspoken, yet expected. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.
About the Author
J. A. Rodriguez Jr. is a senior manager for a Fortune 200 company. He has over twenty-six years of professional work environment experience. The last twenty-one years were in leadership roles of increasing responsibility. His responsibilities extend to the development, deployment, and implementation of strategic plans and programs across the globe; for creating partnerships in new and existing business initiatives. He is an author, engineer, inventor (patent no. 5,285,961), Certified Safety Professional, martial arts instructor, expert trainer, mentor, motivational speaker, and former college professor.
Not Intuitively Obvious * by J.A. Rodriguez Jr.
Transition to the Professional Work Environment
Publication Date: March 16, 2009
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