Pedigree (eBook)

How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs

Lauren A. Rivera (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8074-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How social class determines who lands the best jobsAmericans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status, yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes readers behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why.Drawing on scores of in-depth interviews as well as firsthand observation of hiring practices at some of America's most prestigious firms, Lauren Rivera shows how, at every step of the hiring process, the ways that employers define and evaluate merit are strongly skewed to favor job applicants from economically privileged backgrounds. She reveals how decision makers draw from ideas about talent-what it is, what best signals it, and who does (and does not) have it-that are deeply rooted in social class. Displaying the "e;right stuff"e; that elite employers are looking for entails considerable amounts of economic, social, and cultural resources on the part of the applicants and their parents.Challenging our most cherished beliefs about college as a great equalizer and the job market as a level playing field, Pedigree exposes the class biases built into American notions about the best and the brightest, and shows how social status plays a significant role in determining who reaches the top of the economic ladder.

Autor

Lauren A. Rivera is associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2016
• Nachwort: Lauren A. Rivera
• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus. 16 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • alumnus • americans • Analytical skill • Attendance • Bank • Business School • Calculation • Career • case interview • Case study • Classroom • Coaching • Cognitive skill • Competition • Consideration • Consultant • Consulting firm • coursework • Cover Letter • credential • Cultural Capital • Curriculum • Deliberation • disadvantage • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Inequality • Economic stratification • educational inequality • Emmanuel Saez • Employment • Entry-level job • extracurricular activity • Financial Crisis • full-time • Graduate school • Graduation • Harvard College • Harvard University • Hedge Fund • Homework • Human Capital • income • Individualism • Insider • Institution • Internship • Interview • Investment banking • I Wish (manhwa) • Job fair • job interview • job performance • law firm • Law School • lawyer • Management Consulting • Marketing • Meritocracy • middle class • narrative • National Bureau of Economic Research • Nonprofit Organization • obstacle • organization • participant • participant observation • percentage • Poverty • Professional School • Professional services • Qualitative research • Recruitment • Reputation • Requirement • salary • Scholarship • Secondary School • seniority • Skill • Social capital • Social Class • Social Inequality • Social mobility • Socioeconomic Status • Sociology • Storytelling • Structured Interview • Student • student newspaper • Supply (economics) • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University and college admission • Upper Class • upper middle class • Wealth • Work Ethic • Work–Life Balance • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8074-2 / 1400880742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8074-4 / 9781400880744