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CLASS OF 2020 Survival Guide

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT. WHO BETTER to offer advice to today’s newly-minted B.A.s than career coaches and financial advisors who graduated during the last economic meltdown and emerged with strong careers, solid salaries and their sanity intact? Here are practical tips from five experts, who lived through and survived graduating into chaos.

This is hard. Take care of yourself.

When Lauren McGoodwin graduated in 2009, the U.S. was in the midst of shedding 8.7 million jobs within two years. “I graduated with zero prospects and

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