ADVICE FOR COLLEGE GRADS

COLLEGE
4 Steps to Go from Grad to Great Employee
By Kirsten Asher, Contributor
Speaker + Consultant | LiveYourDASHNow.com | ProfitStartsWithP...
Graduation--the ultimate limbo phase. The first moment where you're no longer a student but you're not yet a professional. It's easy to be a little freaked out, especially with friends and family asking "What are you doing next?"
ARTS
How To Stop Working For Exposure AKA 'Free'
By Bhavani Esapathi, Contributor
Founder The Invisible Labs, Writer & Public Speaker
Every single time I have filtered my decision through the process, I always end up receiving more than I have given therefore never having to apply for a job again. 
COLLEGE
Timeless Advice for Generation A-Z
By Debra Walton, Contributor
Chief Content Officer, Thomson Reuters
Some haven't got a clue about what they're going to do, or even what they might be capable of (I certainly can relate). But that's okay, it doesn't matter. The journey is what's important.
PARENTS
Dear Graduates, Put Your Online Superpowers To Work
By Diana Graber, Contributor
Co-founder, CyberWise.org: No Grownup Left Behind! and Founder...
I spend a lot of time teaching students about online safety, reputation management, cyberbullying, privacy and all that a jazz. Of course I hope that when they graduate they will remember every lesson, but frankly, I'd be satisfied if they remembered just the last one.
PARENTS
6 Lies We Tell College Graduates
By Jacqueline Wilson, Contributor
Founder, PrimeParentsClub.com
Your head is probably filled with advice -- those oh-so-helpful tips from parents, professors, friends and anyone else who finds out you'll be released into the big blue yonder soon. We're here to tell you that most of that advice is just, well, crap.
COLLEGE
College Grads: Should You Work For A Woman?
By Dr. Peggy Drexler, Contributor
Author, research psychologist and gender scholar
There will be bad bosses -- male and female. There will also be good bosses -- male and female. College graduates considering choosing a boss based on perception only serves to reinforce certain stereotypes.
FIFTY
7 Great Ways To Support Your Unemployed Boomerang Kid
By Mary Quigley, Contributor
NYU professor, author, mothering21.com
With the hordes heading back to school, it hard to escape September's fresh-start mentality. For many Baby Boomers this month signals a rewind, whether it's packing off children to college, younger siblings to high school, or simply the return to a non-summer-mode routine.
COLLEGE
Grad School: Approach With Caution
By Mark Gilman, Contributor
College Survivor
Grad school doesn't always give you a better idea of what to do. Sure, you'll get to know a field of research better. But, unless you have a fire in your belly about what you want to study, real work experience will provide invaluable answers to life's more relevant questions.
COLLEGE
Employment Options for the Newly Graduated
By Dr. Bonnie Snyder, Contributor
Author, College/Career Consultant
It's time to turn that brainpower to the personal problem of locating individual opportunity in the current economic climate. Analyze the problems, identify the existing opportunities, and position yourself accordingly.
COLLEGE
What You Do in College Matters Most: How to Get the Best Return on Your College Investment
By Carol J. Carter, Contributor
Author and student success expert
Success in college and life comes from gaining knowledge and skills. The more you take responsibility for carving your own path of adventure, the more your true abilities will emerge.
COLLEGE
College Graduates: You're Doing it Wrong, and it's OK.
By Mark Gilman, Contributor
College Survivor
Congratulations, you just graduated college! I bet a lot of people are asking you what you're going to do. I always hated that question because I had no clue.
COLLEGE
Wild Is the Wind! A UT Commencement Address
By Turk Pipkin, Contributor
Writer, filmmaker, co-founder of The Nobelity Project
You made it. Or I should say, you've almost made it. For the past four years, maybe five, the number of ways you could blow it have grown smaller and smaller, and you're now down to just a couple of small steps between you and your diploma. My main advice to you is, don't trip up now.
PARENTS
My Advice to My Graduating Son: I Hope You Fail
By David Geller, Contributor
CEO and co-founder, GV Financial Advisors; Author, 'Wealth &am...
Failure is a very powerful force. It's in experiencing failure that we all learn, and if we are resilient and recognize the role failure has in our lives, we ultimately become the person we are meant to be, doing what we are meant to do. Failure is the path to wisdom.
COLLEGE
Recent Grads Face the Real World of Money Management
By Joe J. Wilson, Contributor
Wealth management adviser, TIAA-CREF
Think about what your living situation might be for the next few years. Will you live with your parents, with one or more roommates, or by yourself?
COLLEGE
In Transit: From College to Cubicle
By Jennifer Langione, Contributor
Fitness Enthusiast, New Yorker, PR Professional, Bucknellian
As college students, we spent four years reaping the freedoms of young adulthood without being occupied by financial stress or parental responsibilities. Now we must start paying for rent, food and transportation.
CULTURE
Advice for Design Graduates: Start Now
By Emily Pilloton, Contributor
Designer, educator
Almost five years ago, I quit a corporate retail design job, moved in with my parents, and started a nonprofit design agency. Many people called this impulsive. What some call impulse, others call initiative. Ideas are worth little without action.
COLLEGE
Dear Class of 2012: Your Degree Is Worthless -- Now Get to Work
By Jeff Reeves, Contributor
Financial journalist, Editor, InvestorPlace.com
That piece of paper you just picked up doesn't matter. Neither does your major, your GPA or any "honors" you graduated with. From here on out, the only thing that matters is your work.
COLLEGE
Delayed Gratification in the Career Search
By Jennifer Langione, Contributor
Fitness Enthusiast, New Yorker, PR Professional, Bucknellian
Like many of my friends, I don't have definitive post-graduation plans. Amidst all this uncertainty, though, I am confident that if I stick to the fundamentals -- relentless positivity, dedication and persistence -- my years of hard work will be rewarded.
COLLEGE
Not So Lost Generation
By Jesse Aizenstat, Contributor
Author, "Surfing the Middle East: Deviant Journalism from the ...
They graduated from college into the worst job market since The Great Depression and they didn't give up. The lack of an easy job fertilized their minds to take a risk. On themselves.
COLLEGE
Thiel's Dropout Deal Misses the Point
By Andrew P. Kelly, Contributor
Research fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-editor, 'Re...
A four-year degree program is certainly not a good a fit for everyone, and we clearly need a broader array of high-quality postsecondary options. Unfortunately, Thiel's provocative brainchild does nothing to inform this debate.
COLLEGE
10 Skills New Grads Must Have to Work at Startups
By Alicia Morga, Contributor
Entrepreneur and Creator
Soon, another wave of eager college graduates will hit the shores of companies everywhere. Here are ten skills new grads must have before they show up to work at a startup.
BUSINESS
Lauren Berger, 'Intern Queen,' Had 15 Internships In Four Years
BUSINESS
How to Get Your Twenty Something Off the Couch!
By Fred Whelan and Gladys Stone, Contributor
Authors of 'GOAL! Your 30 Day Game Plan for Business'
Summer is approaching and your twenty something is graduating. The last thing you want is your twenty something using their lack of experience and the slow job market as an excuse to lay on the couch watching reality TV.
BUSINESS
'Twintern': The Recent College Grad Who Tweets For Pizza Hut
BUSINESS
College Grads Shun Wall St. For Non-Profits
CHICAGO
Chicago For Dummies: What Our Newest Residents Can Expect
By David Murray, Contributor
David Murray is editor of Vital Speeches of the Day magazine, ...
I moved to Oak Park fresh out of Kent State University, back in 1992. The economy wasn't great then either, and so the adventure came easier than the work.
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