George Anders
George Anders
You Can Do Anything

 

Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers?  

You Can Do Anything explains the remarkable power of a liberal arts education – and the ways it can open the door to thousands of cutting-edge jobs every week.

The key insight: curiosity, creativity, and empathy aren’t unruly traits that must be reined in. You can be yourself, as an English major, and thrive in sales. You can segue from anthropology into the booming new field of user research; from classics into management consulting, and from philosophy into high-stakes investing. You can bring a humanist’s grace to our rapidly evolving high-tech future.

Count on this book for guidance on the value of “telling your story” — as a powerful alternative to shipping out resumes, month after month. You also will learn how to create jobs that don’t exist yet. And if you’re interested George’s earlier books on topics such as finance, tech and health care, click on the right-hand link below.

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About

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George Anders is an author, journalist and public speaker. From 2017-2023 he was a key member of LinkedIn’s editorial team, where he helped build initiatives such as the annual Top Companies rankings; the Interview Prep career tool, and the widely read Workforce Insights newsletter. Earlier in his career, he spent two decades as a top feature writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

George also has served as a contributing writer at Forbes, a founding editor of Bloomberg View, and the West Coast bureau chief of Fast Company magazine. His freelance portfolio includes bylined work for Harvard Business Review, The American Scholar, The New York Times and The Guardian. He is a five-time Top Writer on Quora.

As a public speaker, George has addressed campus audiences at settings such as Texas Tech, the University of Central Florida, Grinnell College and James Madison University. He was the 2018 commencement speaker at Washington & Jefferson College. He has been a guest speaker at Google, Microsoft and Rolls-Royce PLC; he also is an in-demand panelist and moderator at settings such as the Kilkenny (Ireland) economics festival and the annual SXSW conference.  

Off hours, George is a slow but stubborn hiker. Past adventures include Nepal’s Annapurna Circuit and a traverse of the Grand Canyon. He lives in northern California with his wife, Betsy Corcoran, the founding CEO of EdSurge.