Coaching Highlights

In Chapter 13 of 13, cycling offers digital media marketer Caroline Giegerich time to be creative and reflect while away from the computer and cell phone.

In Chapter 15 of 17, author Scott Gold shares writing milestones from first published article post-college to, later, landing his first book deal. The first article involves food and family, with Gold publishing notes on eating an 8-pound lobster with his mother for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The first book moment highlights opposite emotions of joy getting a book deal and fear having to then write a book.

In Chapter 10 of 17, Scott Gold applies his Washington University philosophy major to his writing career, choosing a rational mindset when making decisions. In avoiding emotional and impulse-driven pitfalls that lead to judgmental and prejudice-based behavior, Gold finds his philosophy education helps him better reason and debate sensitive, ethical subjects such as the decision to eat meat.

This video shows how you should deliver your cover letter when applying for jobs.

Career Counselor Judith Gerberg shares some great advice on how to survive the complex workings of office politics, and how to cope with changes in office dynamics.

In chapter 1 of 15, University of Michigan student Andy Epstein spends a summer as a camp counselor assisting special needs children. The experience shapes his post-college choice to teach. Epstein's mid-college Camp Ramapo counseling position leads to his application and acceptance into his first post-college job at Teach for America.

What kind of questions might surprise me?

In Chapter 3 of 11, Kenyon College thesis writing and experiences abroad shaped author and journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt's career and opened doors to her first job at Harper Collins. Her modern literature focused thesis, written on Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway" and "Room of One's Own" honed her interest in developing expertise around feminist and women's issues. Then, a college semester abroad in Nepal cause her to move away from academia into journalism and writing.