The College Grad's Guide to Purgatory: Finding and Surviving Your First Job by Elycia Arendt Search Amazon for other books by or about Elycia Arendt. Rating: Reviewed by: Tami Brady

The College Grad's Guide to Purgatory is the complete guide to finding and surviving a job. This book describes the process of finding a job from the decision about your major through the truth about internships and summer jobs to the best jobs finding resources. Then the book goes even further explaining resumes, interview strategies, and how to survive office politics.

Though the title of the book suggests this guide is written specifically for college and university graduates, practically anyone looking for a job will benefit from the author's suggestions. The tips in this book are straightforward, honest, extremely realistic, true to life, and often quite hilarious. I think this book should be required reading for every student leaving high school, technical school, college, and university.