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How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
Princeton University Press
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
368 pages
ISBN: 0691155623
EAN: 9780691155623
Kindle: B00RKMZZRE
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Non-Fiction
Americans 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 “right stuff” 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.
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