Gorick
ABOUT GORICK

Welcome!

I’m a first-gen college grad, author, and career adviser who is on a mission to level the playing field for talent from underrepresented backgrounds.

I wrote my first resume when I was 14 years old for my working-class, single mother who lost her job. I went on to attend Harvard as a first-generation, low-income college student.

I am a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, a career adviser at Harvard, and a faculty member at UC Berkeley, where I teach a course based on my book, The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. Previously, I worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a management consultant, Credit Suisse as an investment banker, and with Harvard Business School as a researcher for the Managing the Future of Work project.

When I am not at UC Berkeley teaching or on the road speaking, I live with my spouse and Dotty the dog in the Bay Area, where I can be found taking long hikes in nature and blasting country music and movie soundtracks.

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What this US Supreme Court justice can teach us about failure…

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor knew she wanted to become an attorney since the age of 10. Her journey went as intended… until she was rejected for a full-time job offer after a summer internship with a New York corporate law firm. Three decades later, she was appointed to the US Supreme Court. What can Sonia Sotomayor teach us about rerouting our path to reach our full potential?
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What it takes to become the world’s #1 cookie…

In 1908, a new cookie was born: one made up of a sweet cream filling sandwiched between two chocolate-y wafers. Thinking OREO? Not quite. That's because OREO is a direct copycat of a cookie called Hydrox—which became obsolete after OREO crushed it in sales. What can we learn about how OREO overtook its competition for our own careers?
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What the director of Dune can teach us about finding fulfillment...

Did you know? The director of the “Dune” series (2021, 2024), Denis Villeneuve, was originally going to become a biologist. But, feeling deeply depressed, Villeneuve dropped everything—and enrolled in film school. What can his 40-year journey teach us about finding fulfillment in our own careers?
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What a $10 billion telescope can teach us about planning for failure…

Did you know? The most powerful telescope ever, designed to find and photograph the first galaxies in the universe, had 344 ways it could fail—and yet it did not. What can NASA’s meticulous planning teach us for our own careers?
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