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Life After College

A one-stop shop for all Bennies and Johnnies need to know once they graduate CSB+SJU.

Step 3: Accept and start your new job.

We hear you, starting a new job can be overwhelming.

Here you will find tips and tricks on how to thrive as the newest employee at your new workplace. Good luck!

Pro Tip from Beth Notch, XPD Career Coach

Did you know that much of your success in your new job hinges on how you adjust to the organization’s culture? Let Gorick Ng, bestselling author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right show you the way.

Books to Read

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Ibarra offers advice to: Redefine your job in order to make more-strategic contributions; diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a wider range of stakeholders; and become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar (and possibly outdated) leadership style to evolve.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear, an expert on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. He draws on proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible.

The Charisma Myth

The Charisma Myth

The charisma myth is the idea that charisma is a fundamental, inborn quality - you either have it (Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Oprah) or you don’t. But that’s simply not true, as Olivia Fox Cabane reveals. Charismatic behaviors can be learned and perfected by anyone.

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

Bosses are maddening. Colleagues are profoundly irritating. And balancing family and work is daunting. So how do we balance success with sanity? How do we progress without burning out? Whether you're drowning in a toxic working environment, battling burnout, recovering from redundancy, or just struggling to figure out what you actually want from your career, Cate Sevilla is here to help coach you through the shittiness of your work day, and help you shift your relationship with your career.

I Hope This Email Finds You Never

I Hope This Email Finds You Never

I Hope This Email Finds You Never puts aside the motivational screeds, productivity hacks, and pop-science, and focuses instead on those things in the workplace that truly cause us grief - like a coworker eating an apple during a video call - in a lighthearted, entertaining, and (most importantly) cynical way.

The New Rules of Work: The Muse Playbook for Navigating the Modern Workplace

The New Rules of Work: The Muse Playbook for Navigating the Modern Workplace

In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, the co-founders of popular career website TheMuse.com, show how to play the game by the New Rules. The Muse is known for sharp, relevant, and get-to-the-point advice on how to figure out exactly what your values and your skills are and how they best play out in the marketplace.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts... Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society.

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One

What's next? is a question we all have to ask and answer more frequently in an economy where the average job tenure is only four years, roles change constantly even within that time, and smart, motivated people find themselves hitting professional plateaus. But how do you evaluate options and move forward without getting stuck?

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Too often we approach life's biggest hurdles with dread and leave them with regret. But by learning to access our personal power we can achieve "presence," the states in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and start being our best selves. As this revolutionary book reveals, harnessing the power of presence is as simple as learning to tweak our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives.

Weird in a World That's Not

Weird in a World That's Not

An honest, sharp-witted, practical guide to help you get the job you want and keep it - from an outsider who has been there and done that; a woman who went from being a broke, divorced college dropout to running some of the biggest websites in the world.

You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms

You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms

You Belong Here offers a new framework for those who feel like outsiders to establish belonging within themselves and understand who they are at their core. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves. Identity is explored in four parts: Lived identity, Learned identity, Loved identity, Lingering identity.

Your First 100 Days

Your First 100 Days

The first 100 days is a key indicator of success in your new role. With structured planning, commercial insights and leadership coaching, Niamh O'Keeffe provides all the crucial insights to empower any time-pressured leader to achieve the very best start.

Podcasts to Listen to