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A thoughtprovoking wellresearched analysis of the entrylevel hiring process at the most elite employers in finance law and business consulting one might even call them the gatekeepers of the 1

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Having done our share of hiring committee work we can vouch for a lot of the picture painted here

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Rivera has done society a service by illuminating the unspoken norms against which all applicants to these top employers are judged

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However they are not the natural outcomes of being raised in a poor family and outside of attending a boarding school on a scholarship there is nowhere you can go to learn them

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So although none of these norms overtly discriminate against applicants who are not rich white anglosaxons though there are incidents of blatantly illegal discriminatory acts in the book too their net effect is to largely screen out people whose lives do not resemble those of the wealthy

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Of course this was in atlanta not in nyc so it is possible that the top dog firms in nyc only look at a few law schools

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Dont listen to anyone who says this book isnt a howto guide or a vocational book