Put Your Mindset to Work

To take advantage of advancement opportunities and improve job security, you need more than job skills. Using survey responses from 800 companies, two experts on career success say employers pay more attention to a candidate's mindset--a variety of mental traits the authors group into three categories: global mindset (seeing the big picture), good mindset (unwavering focus on the greatest good for all), and grit mindset (tenacity and resilience during adverse times). Narrating with impeccable skill in a rich baritone, Paul Costanzo relaxes the buttoned-down, prescriptive aspects of the production. Though these features make the work seem academic, even byzantine, the advice is solid, and Costanzo's approach creates an accessible learning experience. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine