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Questions and Answers with Career Expert Gary Tuerack

 

Please note: On a somewhat infrequent basis, Quintessential Careers asks noted career experts five questions related to their expertise and publishes the interview in the current issue of QuintZine, our career e-newsletter. Those interviews are archived here for your convenience.

 

Gary Tuerack is a nationally known speaker, author of Better Grades in Less Time, and founder of Tuerack Training International.

 

Q:	You tell students how to get better grades. How important are grades to success after college?
A:	The answer to this question depends on what career you go into. In some occupations, getting better grades leads to more dollars in your pocket. It also makes it more likely that you'll get hired in this competitive workforce. However, in other occupations, such as being a motivational speaker like myself, what mattered more is communication ability. In my opinion, the key is making the most out of college to develop yourself -- not just being focused, like most students, on the grade, but rather on the education you're gaining. Anyone who makes a priority of developing himself or herself (his or her mind) wins in the long run. Besides, most of the stuff we learn in school ends up, for the most part, regurgitated for the exam, and then forgotten anyway.
Q:	Briefly, how do your methods apply to those beyond college? How do they apply to success in the workforce?
A:	My methods help increase reading speed/comprehension and memory. This skill applies to just about everybody in the workforce since it helps us be more productive because we're reading every day -- emails, mail, memos, books. Anyone who can take in more information in a shorter period of time has the advantage. We're in an information overload-society -- and the winner is the one who can get through, assimilate, and use the information most productively. Most people, however, waste hours by reading slowly, re-reading, mind wandering. My techniques make anyone a more valuable employee to a company.
Q:	What is the most important piece of advice you feel you could offer today's college student?
A:	I would suggest that students review their notes every day within five hours of class. Studies and surveys continue to support that any student reviewing his or her notes within five hours of taking them is earning a grade-point average of between a 3.7 to 4.0. It's simple; it ends up saving a lot of time in the long run; and it will improve your grades as well as your understanding of what's going on in class every day.
Q:	What's the biggest mistake college students make that your advice could correct?
A:	The biggest mistake is that college students are pursuing money rather than their dreams. That's a fatal mistake. And statistics show that those who do what they love end up being the millionaires in society.
Q:	What distinguishes your approach to student success from everyone else's? What make it different/better?
A:	My approach is simple -- find out what the most successful are doing, and use those techniques to produce the same results. I made it easy for students because I already did the research. What I present to people are the strategies, and those applying the strategies are seeing the results they wanted to see.

 

 

Gary Tuerack has spoken in front of hundreds of thousands of students, from small groups to audiences of more than 1,600. He is the author of Better Grades in Less Time, and founder of Tuerack Training International. Tuerack frequently appears on national television and radio talk shows. As a child, Tuerack was an extremely slow reader and struggled in school. To overcome this difficulty, he developed a way to triple his reading speed, increase his grades, and is now an Ivy League graduate of Cornell University. Tuerack Training International can be accessed on the Web at: TotalSuccess.com.

 

 

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