Download or read book Start Now, Succeed Later written by Patrick S. O'Brien and published by Thomson South-Western. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ... will help students build life skills that will assure future career success. Students will learn that the best jobs do not go to the best-dressed candidates or those with the longest list of club memberships; the best jobs go to the candidates who can demonstrate a wide range of important skills. Those skills are clearly defined by use of the acronym COLLEGE which stands for the seven winning characteristics needed for a successful job search: communication, organization, leadership, logic, effort, group skills, and entrepreneurship. [This book] develops each of the concepts, helping students realize their importance and how their own skills might be deliberately cultivated over the course of their college experience.-Pref.