Summary Of The Book 'Major In Success' By Patrick Combs
The book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is essentially a self-help book for college
and life. Along with providing many real life success examples, Combs does a good job in
anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some
great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim for the stars’ mentality is good in fairy tales,
but in today’s cut throat job market, job searching individuals have to pull out all the stops.
Combs does not go into depth about his own success, nor does he really describe situations
surrounding an ordinary students success. Overall, a lot of the advice Combs illustrates comes
from a good place and is relative, and although useful for some, may be completely …show more content…
Chapters 9, 15, and 20 offer good advices on lines for ones resume, how to do research
on jobs/industries, advice for interviews, and how to conduct an interview plan. One major
disagreement I have with chapter 9 is how this chapter puts a high emphasis on campus clubs
and volunteer programs. Although they do look good on a resume, I do not feel they are as
crucial in obtaining a job as the author entails.
One major disagreement that I have with Combs comes from chapter 10, ‘Never Mind
the Grades.’ In it, Combs gives many reasons and examples of how and when ones GPA did not
matter. He fails to mention that in a very competitive job market when all of the applicants
have similar factors, it will likely be GPA factor that makes the difference. Another major
disagreement comes from chapter 19, ‘School without an Internship Will Get You Nowhere.’
Although Combs does provide statistics, and I do agree that an internship can be essential, to
put the idea out there that a lack of an internship will lead to a lack of success is absurd.
Overall the book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is an interesting book that
does provide good opinions backed up by some facts. I do believe however that many of
and life. Along with providing many real life success examples, Combs does a good job in
anticipating the arguments against his ideas and answers them. ‘Major in Success’ has some
great advice as well as some major flaws. The ‘aim for the stars’ mentality is good in fairy tales,
but in today’s cut throat job market, job searching individuals have to pull out all the stops.
Combs does not go into depth about his own success, nor does he really describe situations
surrounding an ordinary students success. Overall, a lot of the advice Combs illustrates comes
from a good place and is relative, and although useful for some, may be completely …show more content…
Chapters 9, 15, and 20 offer good advices on lines for ones resume, how to do research
on jobs/industries, advice for interviews, and how to conduct an interview plan. One major
disagreement I have with chapter 9 is how this chapter puts a high emphasis on campus clubs
and volunteer programs. Although they do look good on a resume, I do not feel they are as
crucial in obtaining a job as the author entails.
One major disagreement that I have with Combs comes from chapter 10, ‘Never Mind
the Grades.’ In it, Combs gives many reasons and examples of how and when ones GPA did not
matter. He fails to mention that in a very competitive job market when all of the applicants
have similar factors, it will likely be GPA factor that makes the difference. Another major
disagreement comes from chapter 19, ‘School without an Internship Will Get You Nowhere.’
Although Combs does provide statistics, and I do agree that an internship can be essential, to
put the idea out there that a lack of an internship will lead to a lack of success is absurd.
Overall the book ‘Major in Success’ by Patrick Combs is an interesting book that
does provide good opinions backed up by some facts. I do believe however that many of