What's it about?

It's a "tell-it-like-it-is" approach to how to build the relationships and the knowledge base that supports making something happen with your life and career. It's a tool kit, a question set, and some reliable guidelines to help you walk confidently into full-blown adulthood.

Biggest reasons to use this book

  1. Get the 3 criteria you can rely on to make major life-work decisions
  2. A "Flying Start" section-move from planning to doing within days
  3. Create choices when you don't seem to have any
  4. Smart ways to involve your family, friends and mentors
  5. Tips for moving forward faster with groundbreaking conversations
  6. PLUS: A corporate insider's pick for the best resume, cover letter, follow-up, and more

How does it work?

The book is organized into three major phases: Launch, Discovery and Docking.

  1. The Launch phase gets you up and running quickly.
  2. Discovery works on asking key questions about what you want, and cross-matching that with what the world needs from you, including looking at where and how you can contribute your skills and talents.
  3. Docking helps you manage your entry into a new job, a new life, and new surroundings.
The book is organized into three major phases

You get lots of tools, action steps, and coaching on how to handle every day issues from resumes to finding mentors, to linking up with the right people to talk to. I keep it light, and focused. And you get the right steps to move you ahead right now. I move you off of waiting for the perfect answer to taking a step today that makes some progress.

Why Susan wrote this book

I've spent my business life investigating the highs and lows of major transitions. As I turned my attention to twentysomethings—having two in my family—I noticed new challenges and a different set of worries.

The world is spinning with a lot more choices and little help on coping with them. Our changing world requires young people to sift through more stuff more quickly, soak up more maturity earlier, and often be tempted to stay less mature longer.

Looking at all these contradictions, it seemed like a perfect time to help twentysomethings get back to basics. I want to fill the void where other self-development tools have come up short. I have been inside hundreds of companies, trained and coached thousands of people, and I know how it works out there. So here's the help you need to get off the Internet and get moving.

Susan Berg

Susan shares her home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with her beloved husband, her feisty ninetysomething mother, two dogs and a cat—with a swinging door for the comings and goings of her twentysomething kids and their friends.