Explore content, resources, and tools for recent graduates just launching their careers.
Connect
- Dartmouth Alumni Relations Career Resources: Including Dartmouth Connect
- Recent Graduates Volunteer Resources
Audio and Video
Things I Wish I Knew Then: Reflections by Recent Grads with David Jelke ’19, Zainab Bakrin ’18, and Kaya Thomas ’17 (joined by Hoi Ning Ngai ’00 and Leslie Jennings Rowley ’96)
- Gabrielle Santa-Donato ’09: Designing Your Life in Uncertain Times
- Cuong Do ’88 TU’89, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy Group, Samsung
- Jonathan Auerbach ’85, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy, Growth and Data Officer, PayPal: 5 Things I Look for When I'm Hiring
Resources
- Alumni Career Resources (Thayer School)
- Dartmouth Center for Professional Development: Resources for students and graduates within the last five years
- Department of Economics and the Political Economy Project
- Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Career Services
- How to Ace Your Virtual Interview (Tuck School of Business)
- Job Hunting Resources (Dartmouth Library)
- Post-Graduate Opportunities (Center for Social Impact)
- Preparing for Your Interview (Dartmouth-Hitchcock)
Adulting 101: Resources, tools, and tips for navigating the post-graduation landscape
Easy Budgeting for New Dartmouth Graduates: In this series of short videos, John de Regt ’72, an economics major at Dartmouth and experienced executive coach, presents a financial literacy curriculum with a basic budgeting tool (created at the request of his son, Kevin De Regt ’11 TU’17). Download the budgeting tool.
- Video 1: Pay yourself first! - How to make a basic budget
- Video 2: Two Kinds of Savings - How to save for emergencies and retirement
- Video 3: Improve Your Balance Sheet - Understand your student loan
- Video 4: Spend Less than You Make! - Credit card basics
- Video 5: Investment advisors...FYI - Understand Investing and Financial Advisors
- Video 6: How to Buy a Car
Alumni in Print
Cristian Cano ’20: On Employability (The Dartmouth, May 2020)
- Gurveen Chadha ’13: Persistence: How I Found a Job After Graduation (CNN Money, June 2013)
- Jean Mason ’11: The Fabric of Life: Textile designer Jean Mason ’11 explains how she found her way as an artist, designer, and small business owner (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Mar-Apr 2021)
- Lydia Lazar ’81: Dean Lazar’s Golden Guide: Pragmatic Career Advice for Smart Young People
- Words of Wisdom: Eighteen alums offer new graduates advice to live by (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, May-Jun 2019)
- Three Questions: Profiles of recent alumni in pursuit of their passions