Congratulations, graduates! This Sunday marks the beginning of an exciting journey into your post-college life. You're probably feeling excited, nervous, and many other things all at once. You might be looking for a few ways to manage all the change to come. Well, you're in luck! Here are a few resources to check out:
Managing Contacts
LinkedIn - Maintain and develop new relationships with the largest professional networking tool online. For more info, check out these posts:
I Joined LinkedIn...Now What?
Clean Up Your Digital Dirt!
Grad Guide Videos - All You Need to Know about Using LinkedIn
Google Contacts - Yet another way to make sure you save valuable contact info
Managing Money
Loan Repayment Handout from Tufts Financial Aid - Read about repayment and consolidation options, deferment, forbearance and more
Mint.com - Free money mangement tools for budgeting, saving and investing
Managing Time
Remember the Milk - An online to-do list and task management tool with phone and email download options
Evernote - Save links, pictures, documents and more and organize your info by keyword for future searches
Google Calendar - Needless to say, Google has many useful tools, so here's yet another if you aren't already using it!
If you're like me and you like to exchange reading something on a screen for good ol' fashioned print once in a while, check out the following books:
Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World by Lindsey Pollak
Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World by Lindsey Pollak
What Now? by Ann Patchett
Life After College: The Complete Guide to Getting What You Want by Jenny Blake
Don't Forget - Career Services is here to help you even after you graduate! We offer alumni career counseling appointments, web resources, webinars just for alumni and more. Call us at 617.627.3299 to learn more.
