You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice FROM OUR EDITORS
The two words of the title ended the most rigorous and widely watched job search in history, Donald Trump's marathon search for an executive hire on The Apprentice. The successful applicant was Bill Rancic, a 32-year-old entrepreneur from Chicago. You're Hired, his first book, isn't a tell-all about the show or a guide to winning reality shows; it's the story of Rancic's personal success and the methods he used to achieve it. In this brisk read, he describes how he launched a business with no major start-up capital and turned it into a multimillion-dollar enterprise.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
The American Dream is Still Alive!
Bill Rancic, winner of the hit TV show The Apprentice, shows how anyone can become their own personal success story in both business and life, using his own business experiences, work ethic, top business strategies and lessons learned competing on The Apprentice and working for Donald Trump. Bill will show how anyone can achieve the kind of success he did, by using the simple, practical methods for success heﾽs learned along the way.
You Can Do It Too!
Bill Rancic is not only the winner of the biggest reality show in years, he is also a successful entrepreneur and lecturer with a passionate vision about how to succeed thatﾽs sure to resonate with a new generation of business hopefuls. A street-smart 32-year-old who never had an Ivy League education or major start-up capital, Bill turned ingenuity and hard-work into dollar signs from an early age - paying his way through college with a wash & wax business and then creating and selling a cigar company now worth millions.
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
The author won on the reality TV show The Apprentice, in which Donald Trump (who provides a foreword) slowly eliminates potential personal assistants until one is left standing. Rancic puts down, in tumbling first-person prose, the strategy he used to win, as well as how, back in 1995, he co-founded and ran a small mail-order company, Cigars Around the World. Rancic never went to business school, and his book might be boiled down to "rely on your observations and common sense, and on your close relationships." Nearly every chapter is loaded with advice gleaned from family members or friends with whom he has collaborated, salted with a smattering of approaches Rancic picked up from his own reading of how-tos and from his work life. The result sets the book apart: Rancic takes work seriously, and everything in the book is something he personally has tried out; his successes and travails (including a fire at his company) come through clearly and conversationally, as from a big brother. The last two of seven chapters cover his time on the show with "Mr. Trump" and offer candid takes on the other contestants and the show's productions. For a loquacious "how-I-did-it," Rancic's book debut is surprisingly satisfying. (Sept.) Forecast: A nine-city author tour and 25-city radio tour should build on name recognition from The Apprentice and put up numbers more than befitting a tyro. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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