A new book describes how to get around the HR people to get a good job. Plus how to work with Americans, communicate in a corporation, make a presentation, sell a plan, and develop blogs and wikis.

1. How to look good when things are going bad(ly) Step One

2. First, you have to learn how to get past the HR people

3. Then, you have to learn the difference between “problem-solution” and “issue-expectation ”

4. Then there’s the existential thing…We’re not making this up

5. And semiotics…which are actually easy, and, in a way, fun

6. Now we come to the practical art of business (“practical” is a polite way of saying “things you already know how to do, but it doesn’t hurt to see if there are one or two tricks you can add to your dazzling repertoire”)

7. Like, how to pitch a plan…

8. Conduct a meeting…

9. Make a presentation…

10. Decipher business personalities…

11. Land a job with a hot company…

12. And whip up a tasty plate of PaniPuri

13. Just kidding about the PaniPuri

14. All this from a new book by Wiley India

16. Enough of this work…Let’s eat!