Year One: How Young Professionals (And Their Managers) Can Thrive in Their First Job After College

Year One. The first year of anything – a new job, a new place to live, a new relationship – brings with it a mixture of emotions, challenges, opportunities, and experiences that are unrivaled by any other time. When you are new at something, you see it with the freshest eyes you will ever have. It is the time of greatest excitement and anticipation, when everything may seem interesting and shiny and bright. It’s also the time with the greatest potential for feelings of impostor syndrome, that feeling of questioning your own worth, your belonging, and your ability to be successful in this new place. Year One is the time to loosen your hold on what was known and familiar, to embrace something new and uncertain, which for some people is full of excitement and anticipation, and for others can contain moments of anxiety and dread.