Millennials: Career Advice for Success

Post-graduation you may expect a huge paycheck and the best office in the building. Newsflash: you have to be more realistic.
Post-graduation from college, you may expect a huge paycheck and the best office in the building.

Newsflash: you have to be more realistic.

Sure, you've just secured your first job, but you have no idea how you will exactly fit in with the company. You're power-hungry but don't want to come off too strong, or as an overconfident newbie. How do you set a balance to not fit the stereotype of a "millennial"?

Millennials are known as Generation Y, born in the years between 1980-2000, and are characterized as self-obsessed, lazy and demanding everything be given to them... not something you want to prove true at your first job.

Having goals are important while building a career, but the choices you make can either help realize those goals or set you back for years of disappointment.

Author and Founder of a personal branding blog for Forbes, Dan Schawbel, shares the career advice essentials for success.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 1
  • Audio File: staying_well/1346sw1a.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Dan Schawbel
  • Book Title: Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin's Press)
  • Guest Facebook Account: http://facebook.com/danschawbel
  • Guest Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/danschawbel
  • Guest Bio: Dan SchawbelDan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm.

    He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin's Press).

    Both bestsellers were published before Dan's 30th birthday. Dan is a columnist at both TIME and Forbes, and has been featured in over 1,000 media outlets, such as The Today Show on NBC, Street Signs on CNBC, The Nightly Business Report on PBS, The Willis Report on Fox Business, the Economist and Wired Magazine. He's spoken at Google, NBC Universal, McGraw-Hill, Oracle, Harvard Business School, MIT, Time Warner, IBM, and CitiGroup.

    Dan was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 List in 2010, the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 List in 2012, and Business Week cites him as someone entrepreneurs should follow. See more at: http://danschawbel.com/about-dan/
  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: Yes
  • Host: Melanie Cole, MS