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Career Rookie: A Get-It-Together Guide for Grads, Students and Career Newbies
Written by Sarah Vermunt
Narrated by Cris Dukehart
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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A shot of encouragement, a kick in the ass, and a loving push for young people who have no idea what they want or how to get it
Career Rookie is a book for every grad, student, and twenty-something who feels lost, overwhelmed, and anxious. It tackles the emotional and logistical WTF-ness of starting your career, answering questions like, What if I don't have any experience? What if I went to school for something I hated? What if I have NO IDEA what I actually want? Should I just suck it up and settle? Because, honestly, this career thing is starting to give me an ulcer.
This fresh, fun guide gives even the most lost and overwhelmed a way forward. It explores passion, curiosity, uncertainty, self-sabotage, and more on the quest to shake off post-graduation paralysis. Finding the right career can seem impossible, but Sarah Vermunt is the fun-loving, straight-talking coach we all need to make feel-good work a reality.
Career Rookie is a book for every grad, student, and twenty-something who feels lost, overwhelmed, and anxious. It tackles the emotional and logistical WTF-ness of starting your career, answering questions like, What if I don't have any experience? What if I went to school for something I hated? What if I have NO IDEA what I actually want? Should I just suck it up and settle? Because, honestly, this career thing is starting to give me an ulcer.
This fresh, fun guide gives even the most lost and overwhelmed a way forward. It explores passion, curiosity, uncertainty, self-sabotage, and more on the quest to shake off post-graduation paralysis. Finding the right career can seem impossible, but Sarah Vermunt is the fun-loving, straight-talking coach we all need to make feel-good work a reality.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a very lively and readable guide aimed at recent grads and 20-somethings. It is 240 pages, but there aren't many words on each page, so it goes quickly. If you are offended by profanity, this book is definitely not for you.The author occasionally tries to be gently encouraging: don't worry so much, no one knows what they are doing at first, your first job doesn't have to be perfect, make plans but don't clutch them too tightly. But the overall message from the author raises the stakes to a terrifying level, strongly reinforcing what this generation has been told from Day One: you must find a completely satisfying career in order to find any happiness at all in this life. The basic advice is to think hard to discover your perfect career, then simply find and talk to a whole lot of people who are doing your dream job, then make a plan based on what they tell you. Easy to say, much harder to do. Toward the end, the author actually claims to be an introvert, which is a bit hard to swallow. If you or the person for whom you wish to buy such a book is actually an introvert, or faces other specific obstacles, you might do better to look elsewhere.Bottom line: there is a lot of useful advice here and perhaps it is just the inspirational kick in the ass you need, but the breezy, rah-rah style and numerous examples of glorious success could make a person who is struggling feel even more discouraged.