Cindy Brown, author of the book “The Girls Guide to Swagger” and creator of the online community of the same name, once taught a class at the University of Colorado, Boulder called “Real World Planning.”
It was a course formed in response to what she and some of her colleagues in the business world (and many of their professor friends) recognized as a lack of practical skills among the new graduates they saw looking for jobs. Many of these young men and women were eager and earnest, smart and motivated. But they were, well, clueless.
Sound familiar, parents? With graduation day around the corner, I caught up with Brown to ask her what her top tips would be for new graduates going off into the “real world.”
Turns out Brown’s advice is pretty good for the rest of us, too.
