Help for a college graduate to get a job
Congratulations
on your degree.
Now what?
Nobody hands you a manual for the part that comes after graduation. This one is drawn, not lectured — every page is a cartoon panel covering what you actually need to know, fast.
Read it in one sitting
Every page illustrated
Written by a career-long hiring insider
Most career advice is a wall of text you will never finish.
This book is the opposite. Open it anywhere and you get one clear idea, drawn as a panel, that you will still remember on the morning of the interview. That is the whole design.
What’s inside
Three things standing between you and the offer
The plan
Day one after graduation, laid out as a checklist: update the resume, start the search, network, review the money, and decide what you actually want.
The resume
The single question that decides whether yours survives the first cut — and how to answer it before you ever hit send.
The interview
What to research, what to bring, what to ask, and how to answer the question every interviewer asks: why do you want to work here?
The questions you ask
“What does excellence in this job look like?”
An interview is not an interrogation. The questions you ask say as much about you as the answers you give — and most graduates ask none. The book gives you the ones worth asking.
A path most guides skip
Not everyone's answer is an office
The last chapters cover something career books almost never mention: skilled-trade apprenticeships. Electricians, carpenters — programs where you earn a paycheck while you train, and finish licensed instead of indebted. If the desk job is not it, that door is wide open.
Who wrote this
Don Pieta
A career that ran from computer programmer to college math coach to speaking in front of rooms full of students. He has sat on the hiring side of the desk and coached the people sitting on the other one — and wrote down what kept coming up.
Get the book
Hardcover, paperback, or Kindle. 174 pages, every one of them illustrated.