Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm, poised to be your partner in retaining, engaging, and developing talent.

And today, I'm excited to bring you this interview with Amy Reeves, author of the new book,

College to Career Explained, Tools, Tips, and Confidence for your job search. Amy Fine Reeves is the founder

and CEO of Jobcoach Amy.com, where she leverages her 25 plus years of experience as an executive

and hiring manager to help professionals at all levels of their careers find and keep jobs

that make them happy. Her corporate consulting practice focuses

on career coaching for millennials and Generation Z, as well as consulting on practical approaches

to implementing improved millennial and Gen Z management practices. In today's interview,

she'll be sharing tips that both the newly graduated and the season professional can all find

some wisdom in.

Well, job coach, Amy, thank you so much for joining me today on the Modern Mentor podcast.

I'm so excited you're here.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be here, Rachel.

I had the great privilege of reading your book not too long ago.

And I am probably a little bit past due as far as your target audience goes,

but I do have a lot of young people in my life who I know are going to benefit from this book.

And Amy, I would love to hear just a little bit of its backstory. Tell me what made writing

this book feel so necessary for you and in this moment in particular.

Well, thank you so much for reading it,

Rachel, and I do appreciate it. This book is a personal passion of mine. When I came onto the

job market more years ago than I would care to mention, but let's call it sometime late last century,

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