(Book summary) Getting from college to career.

Getting from College to Career Your Essential Guide to Succeeding in the Real World by Lindsey Pollak (z-lib.org).epub (Highlight: 7; Note: 6)

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▪ ask at least three people: What do you wish you’d known about your career when you were my age? (1.What’s your best job search tip? 2.What was your first job, and do you think it was a good choice? 3.Who do you think are the best employers in this area? 4.Have you heard about any young people with really cool jobs during or after college? What do you wish you had known when you were my age?)

▪ Some of the not-so-positive responses (recent fresher students lack of their skill confidence what they claims. They are often lazy and want instant reward and complainant of their work. you have reverse this side. one more thing to stand out is to be polite and humble with other.)

▪ hyperorganized person (To become organized. 🔺Have a notebook📗 🔹Track all your ideas ,researches and info and planning. 🔺keep a folder 📁 for your all learning categories in order to fetch later . 🔺keep all yours events tracking in calender📅. start filling your time block were you had spend like. your career planning step and all others deadline. events and so on.🎉🎈 in order there should be no clash between events. 🔺keep tracking in spreadsheets📃 Keep record of people' interaction infos in this. path—from networking contacts to career counselors to friends 👥 to alumni to company recruiters. and make sure update this. create this memory hook🧠 immediately after meeting. And all this thing is your knowledge research library📚 )

▪ career services office (use your all college placement services . they have lot of exposure of jobs and connection. Assessment testing Résumé and online profile critiquing Databases of apprenticeship/job shadow/internship opportunities Interview training and mock interviewing (often with videotaping) in person or via phone or Skype Career counseling Career fairs and recruiting events Workshops, seminars, and lectures with expert speakers Networking with career services staff. Think about it: they know all the employers!)

▪ news reading habit: (make Daily reading newspaper habit. )

▪ STOP BEING A STUDENT AND START BEING A PROFESSIONAL (you create a personal brand i.e your reputation what people think about you. you can make it both online or offline profiles. which have big impact on the recruiter to decide whether you will fit in professional environment or not.)

▪ you must choose to start your planning and searching wherever you are right now. T

▪ hardworking, respectful, and well mannered

▪ simply by being polite

▪ I want to be like that!” folder 

▪ learn.linkedin.com/students

▪ career advice articles, job search tips, real job and internship opportunities, event announcements, and much more. 

▪ such as links to interesting articles in your industry or about a topic you care about