My first book is out! It’s on recruiting young talent and it’s in bookstores everywhere

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Congrats Ramit ! One more accomplishment to put under your belt.

I only wish a book was out when I graduated college.

Whoa! Your own book in stores. That is awesome! I'll be on the lookout for it in my local Barnes & Noble.

Congrats on your success, Ramit! :D

Congratulations Ramit!

I'm sure it was a lot of hard work getting the book completed. It's gotta feel good knowing that the book is finally out there. I hope the book does very well. Congrats again!

Love the cover design. Who did that for you? It's perfect.

Just bought a copy. And hope to buy some more soon...maybe recommend it to some book clubs.

Keep up the fantastic work and motivation, Ramit!

Congratulations Ramit, on having your own book. I will look for it at local B&N bookstore.

Congratulations, Ramit! I didn't know you were working on this, and it looks fantastic! Any way I can get a review copy?

Looking forward to picking this one up, Both as a fan of your writting and the manager of a small business...

Woo hoo! Congrats Ramit!

I love the picture of the book in the bookstore, especially juxtaposed against Good to Great by Jim Collins.

I HAVE a copy and really need to review and write about it ... sorry for slacking on that!

Thanks for always motivating us to not just do more, but create more meaning. I agree - more young, smart Excel junkies is not what this world needs.

Yay, Ramit! That's so exciting. As a loyal reader for a couple years now, I feel so proud.

Good stuff Ramit. I wil help spread the word.

Did you look at scenarios of compaines going international to recruit young talent?

Wow, I had no idea when this was coming out. I'm getting one.

hey, nice! good for you dude. :)

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Wow!

I can't wait to see the look on my HR manager's face when I hand him a copy...

coooooool... i'll get a copy and/or i'll get my boss to get a copy hahah. i work in government and i'm in a high turnover position. four of eight people in my position just left this summer. i dunno how much this book covers on retention (to me recruitment/retention kinda go hand in hand), but i'll check it out.

Congratulations!

Ramit,

I just got done previewing your book at B&N. It is great! Per your suggestion, I'm going to buy two copies and have lunch with the head of HR at my campus locally, and then ask for the same with the head of HR at our national HQ when I fly out there later this month. Through the whole book I was able to connect what MY COMPANY could do to better attract valuable new hires, not only on campus, but afterwards as well. I believe that a big advantage is having connections with those graduate school programs as you suggest, so that they can feed the company, while the company is promoting it's own talent into the front door for a win-win.

I haven't been with my company for too long, but I look at this as an opportunity to help my company get the best hires AND spread my personal brand wider in house, a benefit I'm sure that a lot of people could take advantage of while driving your book sales higher.

Congratulations on the book, I know it'll do well.

Ramit,

So this is where you've disappeared for the past few weeks. Anyway, yeah I saw Penelope Trunk's post about your book and I tried to order it on Amazon Japan (I fully plan to give it to HR...after I read it...) Got an email back about how they're having trouble placing my order and that I might have to cancel it...hmmm, guess I'll have to find another way to get it...

In any case, congratulations on the book, I'm looking forward to reading it, when and if I get it...;p

Congrats! Let me know if you're swinging by NYC to promote it.

Congrats on your first book! Must have been quite a ride ... But here's a less than supportive comment *about your website*:

You've got a loyal reader base, and I used to read your site on an every-other-day basis. With the recent lack of new posts appearing, my interest has died down. PLEASE pump out some new, interesting, posts!

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That's so cool! Congrats!

If I was in the corporate world, I would read it ( maybe I still will). They didn't recruit much on my campus so I just started my own business. Oh well...

Very exciting, Ramit!

Congrats on the book. I'm sure you have good things to say, and it's never easy to get a book published.

That having been said though, I'm not super convinced by your thesis. All your anecdotal evidence is in favor of why people want to go to big companies, regardless of how well they recruit. Google managed to be the number one destination for top [Stanford] students over the last couple of years despite a disaster of a recruiting department (though facebook seems to have overtaken them for the forseeable future).

People go to GS, McKinsey, D.E. Shaw, Google and such year after year for lots of obvious reasons:

-- they're big companies that hire lots of people every year, so you're bound to know people who go there

-- due to past/current success, they can afford to offer high salaries and great benefits

-- they have the best of the best and so

--- they're prestigious

--- they're attractive places to work (beside other smart people)

Granted, you may argue that it's strong college recruiting that got these places to the point where they had the best of the best in the first place, and to a degree I'm sure that's true. But I think, for public companies, people have perceptions of the company, what it has to offer, and the people who work there independent of recruiting. And Google's continued success demonstrates that poor recruiting won't deter top students from wanting to join.

Way to go, Ramit. Like Jonathan, I ordered on Amazon. No problems for me, though...was shipped today!

I know quite a few underemployed college graduates. There are three where I work, all earning our state minimum wage.

Have employers ever considered hiring cheap some of the underemployed, and retraining them for whatever the employer wants or needs? We're very easy to please and we'll work cheap and be happy.

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I have always loved your website, and I'm sure your book is great. I will have to either buy it, or read it at the bookstore.

I look very forward to reading it!

Congratulations!

Another book to teach corporate America how to tap the riches of Gen-Y-- woo, hoo! I thought Bruce Tulgan had milked the subject to death with Gen-X, but along comes another opportunist with enough moxy to make a mint by telling corporate America with it wants to hear about younger workers.

These talent war books are pure bullshit. The only thing that matters about recruiting is pedigree, and the brand of an applicant's sheepskin. Rugrats who went to ivy schools on mommy and daddy's dime are automatically labeled talented commodities, and companies will pay absurd premiums to hire them. Experience be damned!

I have been (feeding) reading your blog for a couple of monthes, and I just wanted to drop you a little note to say congratulations on the article in Entreprenuer Mag. I think it's great to get that recognition! (And for the record, McKinsey is an interesting place to work for. I worked in Graphics, in the Chicago Office, and I am always glad I took off those 'golden handcuffs'.)

I will be purchasing the book for myself and then passing it along to my boss. Although we work in government, I am anxious to see how the book's premise is directly translatable to (overall) lower-paying jobs offered by the public sector.

Hey Ramit,

Your book really interesting. I live in Mumbai, and would love to purchase it. Do you know if it's available in Indian bookstores?

Hey Ramit. Friend of Ramana's and dweekly's here. Saw your book at a bookstore while in Boston for my sister's college graduation and thought of you. So exciting! Congrats on your continued successes.