Starting Your Career After College

Life Kit

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Education, Business, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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From informational interviews to applications, landing your first job after college is always hard. A pandemic makes it even tougher. This episode originally ran in 2019, and we've updated it with information about landing a job during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's life kit and I'm a list-nade warning, an education reporter.
0:04.0	What are you gonna do after you graduate?
0:07.4	God.
0:08.1	Yeah, I know. It's seriously the worst question.
0:11.2	Some students hear this question super early, like before classes even begin.
0:16.6	Now, did everyone know that you are in an exploratory phase of your life?
0:20.2	Did you? I mean, come on, colleges, we're growing and learning and figure out a whole bunch of stuff.
0:24.2	But these are hard questions.
0:26.6	What are your strengths? What are your passions?
0:28.6	How do you want to get involved in the community?
0:30.4	How do you want to get to gain experience?
0:32.4	How do you want to explore different careers that are out there for you?
0:35.6	To start to answer some of those questions,
0:37.6	students at Grinnell College, a small school in Iowa,
0:40.6	spend time during orientation in 2019, making something called a wandering map.
0:45.6	I like it to flip over your green sheet.
0:47.6	The idea is to write down a bunch of stuff that they enjoy.
0:50.6	How do you use your free time?
0:52.0	Like what type of YouTube videos do you just totally go down a rabbit hole and then like,
0:55.6	I could just watch these for hours?
0:57.2	And once you write all this stuff down, then you draw lines to demonstrate the connections.
1:02.2	You're looking for themes.
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