Dude, Where's My Career?: The Guide for Baffled Graduates [Paperback]

Featured in The Guardian Graduate Section, September 5, 2009
--The Guardian Graduate Section

'aims to boost the prospects of unprepared, uninspired, or overwhelmed graduates with handy 3-day plans, realistic tips, and motivational advice'
--Ladies First, October 2010

not aimed at super-motivated jobseekers... but the real-life graduate... with expert advice from graduate recruiters.'
--Daily Express, 13th January 2011

'A cheerful companion on the road to finding the right job'

'This book should be mandatory reading for anyone about to tackle the job market for the first time. Brilliant.'

'An eye-opening approach to fi nding your career direction. Fresh, unique and brilliant'

'Answers stuff you're probably too embarrassed to ask. So go and check it out. Seriously dude'

`Handy little book... the author sets out to inform, reassure and provide practical ideas on how to move forward'

'good guard against easily avoidable mistakes... quirky tips from Tanya... are transmitted into your synapses in a style that sticks'

'Need career inspiration? Find your perfect job with this brilliant new book... it's full of tips'

'Eminently practical and genuinely helpful handbook for uninspired graduates.'

You've donned a gown, tossed a cap high in the air, been patted on the back for making it through uni, and then what? Total paralysis. After years of lectures, late nights and laughs you're back at your parents' house, watching daytime TV and rapidly slipping into a pit of despair. Stop. Take a breath and buy this book.Where traditional careers guides are pitched at motivated 21-year-old jobseekers who already have some idea of what they'd like to do, "Dude, Where's My Career?" is the first ever helpful handbook for the real-life graduate who's unprepared, uninspired, overwhelmed, freaking out - and losing confidence fast.Whether you're indecisive, scared or just plain lazy, this guide with a Three-Day Plan from The Careers Group is the kick-start you need to get back on track.

Tanya de Grunwald is a features writer for magazines such as eve, Grazia and Glamour. She graduated from Durham University in 2000 and needed this book.