Morem, Susan

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Morem, Susan

PERSONAL: Female.

ADDRESSES: Office—Premier Presentation, Inc., P.O. Box 41115, Minneapolis, MN 55441. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Consultant, writer, and motivational speaker. Premier Presentation, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, president. Speaks at corporations and universities across the country.

WRITINGS:

How to Gain the Professional Edge: Achieve the Personal and Professional Image You Want, Better Books (Plymouth, MN), 1997, 2nd edition, 2005.

How to Get a Job and Keep It: Career and Life Skills You Need to Succeed, Ferguson Publishing (Chicago, IL), 2002.

101 Tips for Graduates: A Code of Conduct for Success and Happiness in Your Professional Life, Ferguson Publishing (New York, NY), 2005.

Author of weekly syndicated advice column.

WORK IN PROGRESS: How to Get a Job and Keep It: Career and Life Skills You Need to Succeed, 2nd edition, Ferguson Publishing (Chicago, IL), expected 2007.

SIDELIGHTS: Author Susan Morem has developed a successful career speaking and writing about how to succeed in the workplace. She is the president of Premier Presentation, Inc., a national training and consulting firm, and writes a weekly advice column about workplace issues. Morem is also the author of a number of books that give advice on succeeding in one's career, including 1997's How to Gain the Professional Edge: Achieve the Personal and Professional Image You Want and 2002's How to Get a Job and Keep It: Career and Life Skills You Need to Succeed.

In 2005 Morem published 101 Tips for Graduates: A Code of Conduct for Success and Happiness in Your Professional Life. The book serves as an outline for recent high school and college graduates who are looking for guidance on how to succeed professionally. Divided into seven sections, the book contains bullet-pointed lists and tips on self-discipline, social skills, leadership, and communication.

Overall, critics responded positively to 101 Tips for Graduates. Many readers found Morem's book to be a helpful and clearly written tool for people new to their careers. Morem provides readers with a "straightforward guide to help students adjust to the workplace," wrote one Reference & Research Book News contributor. Others enjoyed the author's abundance of hints and tips related to all aspects of leading a successful and happy life. Morem dispenses "tips on every subject from proofreading every document to following one's heart," observed Morgan Johnson-Doyle in a review for School Library Journal.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005, review of 101 Tips for Graduates: A Code of Conduct for Success and Happiness in Your Professional Life, p. 118; August, 2005, review of How to Gain the Professional Edge: Achieve the Personal and Professional Image You Want, p. 118.

School Library Journal, August, 2005, Morgan Johnson-Doyle, review of 101 Tips for Graduates, p. 146.