How To Be More Successful After College: A blog about preparing yourself to be more successful after college.
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I’m going to teach you how to be more successful after college.
I graduated college a year ago, and have spent the last year trying to be successful. I’ll teach you what I’ve learned.
I’m doing this because it’s something I wish I knew when I was in college. It would have saved me the struggle of trying to figure this stuff out on my own.
It’s not that hard to be successful after college, but most people don’t do it. They just don’t know how. And they don’t know that they don’t know how.
But if you follow the steps in this blog, you will.
While I was researching and interviewing, I realized something:
I had spent the past four years studying entrepreneurship and startups, but working at startups made me realize that being an entrepreneur is not enough. In order to be successful in any career or job, you need to think like an entrepreneur. You need to be able to identify opportunities and problems, come up with solutions, market yourself, sell your ideas, and create a plan of action.
In today’s day and age, it has become increasingly important for everyone – from teachers to lawyers – to be entrepreneurs.
On this blog, I will share what I have learned about how to be more successful in the world of business after college.
OK, so you’ve graduated from college. Congratulations! You’re out in the real world now. For many of you, this means going right back to school and starting on a master’s degree or law degree or medical degree. For some of you, it means getting married, buying a house, having kids and living happily ever after. And for some of you, this means moving back in with your parents and working a job that has nothing to do with your major.
For those of you who are not going right back to school and are not buying a house or getting married or even moving out of your parents’ house right away, I have some advice for you based on my own post-college experiences.
I’m not going to tell you what kind of job to get or where to live because that’s something only you can decide. I’m also not going to give career advice because I’m still trying to figure out my own career. But I will tell you how I became more successful after college by doing three things: taking risks, being open and trying new things.
In my last post, I talked about the steps you need to take in the months leading up to graduation. This post is going to focus on what you should be doing between graduation and your first day of work.
Search for a Job
For many of you this might seem obvious, but for some graduating students it’s easy to get caught up in all the fun things going on after college. If you need a job make sure that you prioritize your time for job searching. It might not be as fun as hanging out with friends or taking trips, but it is important.
The best way to search for a job is by networking and informational interviews. Asking friends and family who have jobs in the field you are interested in can help you find places that are hiring or help you learn more about different types of jobs available. Informational interviews are great because they allow you to talk with someone currently working in the field and ask them what their job is like, how they got into that line of work, and/or possibly ask them if they know someone else who would be willing to meet with you so that you can continue learning more about the types of jobs available. You can also use social media sites such as LinkedIn to connect with people who work in your field of
There are lots of different types of jobs out there. Here’s the truth- you don’t need to know what you want to do right out of college. You just need to get a job. Any job will do, as long as it doesn’t suck.
The best way to find a job is by networking. Look for people who already have the type of job you want and ask them about their career paths and how they got where they are. You might be surprised at how willing people are to help you out.
You won’t know if you like something or not until you actually try it. If your first job isn’t what you want, don’t sweat it! You can still make a career change later on down the line in your life when you find that thing that makes your heart sing.
College is great because it allows you to explore different areas and figure out what kinds of things interest you the most. It gives you time to really get to know yourself so that when it comes time to finding a full-time gig, you have an idea of what things make you happy or what things really drive you crazy!
If I had any advice for those coming into college, I would
“In the real world, everyone has to wear clothes.”
I’ve seen lots of people talk about Cruella DeVille costumes, but I hadn’t really thought about it until recently. I looked at some pictures and thought, “Wow, this is really cool!” So I decided to try to create a costume for myself.
It’s not that I haven’t done cosplay before, but it’s not something that I was comfortable doing as a kid. When I was a kid, I just didn’t want to be seen as weird or different. So when I got older and more mature in my own skin, I started experimenting with costuming. When you’re a kid you don’t know what’s going to work and what isn’t going to work. But when you’re an adult you start looking at things differently and realize that some things might work while others might not.
That’s why this costume worked so well for me. It was something that I had already been doing for a long time (wearing clothes), but now that I was an adult and knew what worked for me, I could take a chance on trying something new without worrying about being judged by others.
The whole concept of being Cruella DeVille comes from the Disney