The Prepared Graduate: Find Your Dream Job, Live the Life You Want, and Step Into Your Purpose (College Graduation Gift)

Professional Advice About Career Preparation for Soon-To-Be College Grads

“This book is so real and honest! I wish I had this when I first started out in my career....Every parent should read this book and then gift it to their child! ” —Nancy Barrows, MS CC-SLP, LAUSD educator & speech language pathologist 

#1 New Release in Career Development Counseling and Vocational Guidance

This book of professional advice about career preparation may be the best college graduation gift you’ll receive.

Too many people end up working jobs they didn’t study for. It’s time you proactively prepare for post-graduate life. The Prepared Graduate speaks to Generation Z and Millennials, addressing many of the concerns students (and parents) have about pre- and post-graduation. Kyyah Abdul offers extensive job search tips and work advice, such as guidance on writing the perfect résumé, excelling in job interviews, networking in-person and online, negotiating job salaries, paying off student loans, and more.

Rely on trusted guidance. Armed with first-hand experience with the lack of preparation universities provide their students, Kyyah set out to forge her own path for finding relevant work post-graduation. Her strategies helped her land jobs in several STEM positions both during and after college. Over time, Kyyah created a comprehensive roadmap chockfull of work advice for college seniors through summer up until the end of their first year as a graduate.

The Prepared Graduate is the perfect college graduation gift that provides:

• Guidance on finding the right path for career success
• An easy-to-follow roadmap with advice about career preparation
• Endless job search tips

If you enjoyed What Color is Your Parachute? (2021); Brag Better: Master the Art of Fearless Self-Promotion; or You Turn: Get Unstuck, Discover Your Direction, and Design Your Dream Career, you’ll love The Prepared Graduate.

Ruqayyah Abdulrahoof, professionally known as Kyyah Abdul, is a personal career strategist and founder of Career Savage, a platform dedicated to helping students and young professionals navigate their road to ultimate career success. Kyyah currently works as a remote pharmaceutical consultant facilitating clinical research and development with the FDA to get client medicines approved in the cell therapy, hematology, and oncology space. She has also written public health programs addressing ways to decrease the prevalence of poor cardiovascular health among Black Americans and is the published co-author for a scientific journal, Chronic Respiratory Disease and Health-Related Quality of Life of African American Older Adults in an Economically Disadvantaged Area of Los Angeles.