Vault Career Guide to Private Wealth Management (Vault Career Library) by John Ransom

Product Description

Want to land a job or career in the private wealth management industry but don't know where to start? The Vault Career Guide to Private Wealth Management takes you inside the industry to make sure you can land the job you want. It covers the basics of equity and fixed income products to market and regulatory trends, and dissects career paths and job responsibilities at the both large and small firms.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #212833 in Books
* Published on: 2007-02-25
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 128 pages

The MBA Career Bible, 2005 Edition: The Vault Guide to Careers and Hiring for Business School Students and Recent Graduates (Vault MBA Career Bible)

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Now in one affordable guide, Vault provides an annual up-to-date overview of major MBA career paths.
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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1068810 in Books
* Published on: 2004-09-25
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 224 pages

Customer Reviews

sloppy abbreviated excerpts from other vault guides with no MBA specific focus1
THis guide is comprised of disjointed industry snapshots taken from other vault industry guides with no specific advice for MBA job seekers whatsoever. It's a complete waste of money and the Vault people should be ashamed of themselves for attaching their name to such a shoddy product.

Not to mention it's full of typos and grammatical errors

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!1
Horribly written. The grammatical errors are ridiculous. I'm returning it.

1,001 Ways to Get Promoted

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* Amazon Sales Rank: #1451491 in Books
* Published on: 2000-01
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 255 pages

Editorial Reviews

Book Info
Presents how to do a better job of self-promotion. Offers 1001 techniques and true life stories covering all the critical promotional functions, including how to identify your promotional strategies and fit them into a master plan. Softcover. DLC: Career development.
Customer Reviews

A Good Read!4
If you're just beginning your career or if you're stalled and wondering why you're not progressing up the ladder, you will find David E. Rye's basic book quite useful. His credo: Use self-promotion to attain professional promotion. Don't be misled by the gimmicky title. This is not a list of 1,00l ways to land that promotion. Instead, Rye builds his book around seven strategies that let everyone know you are management material. We [...] like one thing in particular - at pivotal points in each chapter, Rye recommends books that will take you further into the particular subject that chapter covers. This is a great idea, and more business books should refer onward this way. So, if you're just starting out or if you need a boost up the corporate ranks, this book will tell you how to climb, or at least tell you where to go to find out what you need to know.

Nice idea, but where is the delivery ?3
I read about a third of the book before giving up. I found it to be useful from the point of view of identifying and rating ones own skills, but it then went on about powerplays in the workplace. While this is an essential part of promotions, it is not a good long term strategy if the principle one wants to adopt is to be promoted on merit.

The book (or at least what I read) lacked any discussion on exercising the brain so that one can improve their methodology. Doing this would help one improve the quality of their work, and then achieve their promotional goals. Its just a different way of getting there but in a way that promotes ones confidence in their own work.

The overall theme of the book was to offer self improvement in many key areas, but it seemed to focus on how to respond to situations, not how to create them. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I should finish reading it.

A Great Book - One of a Kind5
In the work place, we all know that we are good and believe that is all that it takes to get ourselves promoted, automatically. Mr. Rye does an excellent job of pointing out that this may not happen unless you take action to promote yourself every day. He gives you well over 1,001 ways to do that. I use it as a daily reference book and it has already helped me get the promotion that I have always wanted. I'm already working on my next promotion, thanks to Mr. Rye's advice.