New Graduates

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
  • THIS is the Purpose of Your First Job
  • Let These Two Dartmouth Values Guide Your Career Path
  • Give Me a Reason to Give You This Job - The Importance of a Personal Value Proposition
  • Mentors, the Beatles, and the Power of Showing Up
• Jonathan Auerbach ’85, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy, Growth and Data Officer, PayPal: 5 Things I Look for When I'm Hiring

• Telling Your Career Story: The Art of the Narrative with Paul Argenti, Professor of Corporate Communication at the Tuck School of Business

Resources

• Alumni Career Resources (Thayer School)
• Dartmouth Center for Professional Development: Resources for students and graduates within the last five years
  • Young Alumni Career Advising
• Department of Economics and the Political Economy Project
  • Personal Finance Workshop, Part 1: The Basics - Saving, Budgeting, and Debt/Credit
  • Personal Finance Workshop, Part 2: Beyond the Basics - Investing and Insurance
• Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies Career Services
  • Career Correspondence Including Cover Letters, Thank You Notes, Accepting and Declining Job Offers
  • Interview Practice and Techniques
  • Polishing Your CV and Resume
• 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
  • Laura Sim ’16
  • Morgan M. Blackburn ’13
  • Hannah Giorgis ’13
  • Priya Krishna ’13
  • Jacob Sotak ’13
  • Kelly McGlinchey ’12
  • Mary Strange Etheridge ’11
  • Jana Landon ’11