This is the start of our series on New Graduates: Surviving and Thriving. My guest, Jonathan Kwan and I both graduated right after the dot.com bust in 2001. So we know first hand how hard it is to start work at the beginning of a significant economic downturn. And Co-vid is likely to be much worse. Though this episode focuses more on surviving – getting a quality job, competing with many others, this series will be about thriving too – how new grads can get ahead of the curve in developing the missing 3 - influence skills, judgment, and self-leadership while tapping into inner resources like courage, care, and compassion.