Pre-order Releases Apr 6, 2027
Start Smart: Quick Tips to Stand Out and Move Up in Your Career (Illustrated Smart Guides to Success)
by Jeffrey Sharlach · illustrated by Juan Astasio
About the book
Start Smart
Starting a first real job—or stepping into a new role—can feel exciting, intimidating, and confusing all at once. Start Smart gives new professionals quick, practical advice for navigating workplace communication, office culture, relationships, confidence, and career growth.
Written by NYU Stern professor and communications executive Jeffrey Sharlach, this highly giftable guide features 60 concise lessons paired with sharp black-and-white illustrations by New Yorker contributor Juan Astasio. The result is a career advice book that feels useful, funny, polished, and easy to return to again and again.
Packaged as a faux leather hardcover, Start Smart is a standout gift or desk companion for anyone ready to move up with more confidence and clarity.
Here’s what makes Start Smart a practical gift for the next career step:
• 60 quick workplace lessons: Concise tips on communication, relationships, confidence, office etiquette, and career success.
• Perfect for graduates and new hires: A natural fit for college graduation, MBA graduation, internships, first jobs, and onboarding.
• Credible professional guidance: Written by a longtime NYU Stern professor and founder of a global communications firm.
• Polished hardcover package: Faux leather binding and humorous illustrations make it useful, memorable, and display-worthy.
Start Smart is the perfect graduation gift, first job companion, or desk accessory for graduates, new hires, and anyone beginning their professional life.
The book, Start Smart: Quick Tips to Stand Out and Move Up in Your Career (Illustrated Smart Guides to Success) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781685557805 in Hardcover by Jeffrey Sharlach may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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Details
- Publisher
- The Collective Book Studio
- Author
- Jeffrey Sharlach
- Illustrator
- Juan Astasio
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release date
- Apr 6, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781685557805
- ISBN-10
- 1685557805
- Pages
- 144
- Carton quantity
- 32 copies
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Start Smart in bulk: pricing
Volume pricing applies automatically in your cart. No codes, no account needed.
| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $11.77 | 41% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $11.17 | 44% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $10.57 | 47% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $10.17 | 49% off list |
| 1,000+ | $9.78 | 51% off list |
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