By Amber Hensley

As a new graduate, you may be wondering what’s next-a job, a new place, maybe even a step forward in your relationships. No matter what your plans are, there’s a good chance you will need some help along the way, and there are plenty of guides available to help you out. Check out this list to find 100 survival guides that can help you in the real world.

General

In these guides, you’ll find anything and everything for making it as a new college graduate.

1. The College Graduate Survival Guide: Find ideas for making money and living as a grad in this guide.
2. The Real Life Survival Guide: Check out this site, and you’ll learn about making it in the real world from Bruce Barber.
3. Leaving the Folks: This online survival guide offers guidance in everything from moving to buying a car.
4. Good to Go: A Practical Guide to Adulthood: This guide is specifically written for young adults leaving home for the first time.
5. The Life Guide: The Life Guide will teach you about everything that matters.
6. A Guy’s Guide to Life: This book is aimed at young men getting started in life.
7. Gradspot: On this site, you’ll find a practical guide to life after college.
8. Graduate Survival Guide: On this website, you’ll find all of the important things you missed learning in college.
9. The Quarterlifer’s Companion: Use this book to learn how to succeed in your “quarterlife.”
10. Ramen Noodles, Rent and Resumes: This book offers an after-college guide to life.
11. Pocket Guide to Adulthood: With this guide, you’ll learn 29 things you need to know before you’re 30.
12. Leaving Home: A Survival Guide: Here you’ll find a practical guide to living for young people leaving home.
13. How to Survive the Real World: Learn about life after college graduation from 774 graduates who have been there.
14. Gradvice: Your Real World Survival Guide: Check out this guide to find tips and resources for making it in the real world.
15. No More Ramen: The 20-Something’s Real World Survival Guide: With this book, you’ll learn about money, jobs, life, and more.
16. Living and loving the independence: Check out this guide to find out how to make it in an independent lifestyle.
17. 20-Something, 20-Everything: Here you’ll find a guide to balance and direction for quarter life women.

Career

With the help of these guides, you’ll get the information you need to start a successful career.

1. Entry Level Resumes: Here you’ll find resources for writing your personal resume after college is over.
2. A crash course on job hunting: This guide will walk you through the job hunting process.
3. The Corporate Culture Survival Guide: You can get an understanding of corporate culture in this survival guide.
4. Advice for the modern job hunt: In this survival guide, you’ll get practical tips to follow when you’re looking for work.
5. How’d You Score That Gig?: Check out this book to find a guide on the coolest jobs, and how you can get one.
6. They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: This guide offers information on surviving the business world for twenty-somethings.
7. Job Hunting Online: Job Hunting Online is a great guide for finding your first job using the Internet.
8. Corporate Blogger Survival Guide: You can learn how to best make use of a corporate blog with this guide.
9. Industry Information: Check out a variety of potential industries in this guide.
10. Getting from College to Career: This guide offers a wealth of things to do before you join the real world.
11. Corporate Survival Guide: The Escape from Corporate America blog offers great advice for making it work in corporate America.
12. Your Job Survival Guide: With this manual, you’ll learn how to protect your career and deal well with change.
13. Computer Job Survival Guide: Use this guide to learn how to find great jobs, succeed, and have a great computer career.
14. Recession Survival Guide: This guide discusses finding a job in a down economy.
15. A Freelancer’s Survival Guide: With this guide, you’ll find great advice for taking the plunge as a freelancer.
16. The Job Hunter’s Survival Guide: Use this guide to learn how to find a rewarding job, even when there are no jobs out there.
17. First Job Survival Guide: With the help of this guide, you can thrive and advance in your new career.
18. The Cubicle Survival Guide: Follow this guide to learn how to thrive while working in a cubicle.
19. How to Succeed in Your First Job: This book offers excellent tips for college graduates looking for a job.
20. A College Graduate’s Guide to Using Online Job Sites: With this guide, you’ll be able to find the resources you need to find a great job.
21. Job Survival Guide: You can use this guide to learn how to survive and find a job in a challenging economy.
22. Career Guide: Use this career guide to get an understanding of different careers.
23. Job Hunt Survival Guide: Make use of this kit to find tips for getting a job.
24. Job-Loss Survival Guide: If you get laid off or fired, be sure to follow this guide to recover.

Finance

Get your post-college finances in order using these survival guides.

1. A survival guide for college grads: This guide will help you learn how to get started in your financial life.
2. Recession Survival Guide: With this guide, you’ll learn about job hunting, finance, and more in a recession.
3. Life lessons for managing your money: Check out this guide to learn how to hang on to your cash once you get it.
4. College Grad’s Guide to Managing Money Build your financial smarts with the help of this finance guide from Forbes.
5. Your Personal Survival Guide on Dealing with Social Security, Qualified Retirement Plans, and Professionals: With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to make the most of social security and retirement plans.
6. ASTD Economic Survival Guide: In this guide, you’ll get guidance for surviving and thriving, even in challenging times.
7. An economic survival guide for recent college grads: Get expert advice for making your finances work in a tough economic time.
8. College grad’s financial toolkit: Here you’ll find tools for making sense of your post college finances.
9. Understanding and tackling your new tax life: This guide offers information that will help you make sense of your newly complicated income taxes.
10. Cheap ways to…: In this guide, you’ll get great ideas for making just about anything cheaper.
11. College grad’s survival guide to the real world: With this guide, you’ll get information on finding your dream job, earning money, and living independently.
12. The Truth About Cars: Check out this guide for valuable car buying tips.
13. Summer Motoring Survival Guide: With the help of this guide, you can be safe on the road while traveling.
14. Auto Buyer’s Survival Guide: In this guide, you’ll learn how to be a savvy car buyer.

Social & Relationships

Use these survival guides to make your relationships and social life better.

1. Social Survival Guide: Check out this guide for tips and ideas related to socializing.
2. The Long-Distance Relationship Survival Guide: This book offers advice on making it work with your long distance love.
3. Dating Survival Guide: Check out this guide for relationship tips for jealousy and communication.
4. I Can’t Believe I’m Buying This Book: A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating: Use this book to get a smart perspective on Internet dating.
5. Social Skills Survival Guide: With this guide, you’ll get a handbook for interpersonal and business etiquette.
6. The Networking Survival Guide: With the help of this book, you can learn how to tap into your network for success.
7. The Dating Survival Guide: In this guide, you’ll find ten tips for dating success.
8. Internet Dating: Tips, Tricks and Tactics: You can learn the secrets of dating online from this book.
9. Relationship survival guide: hanging on to your identity: In this survival guide, you’ll learn how to keep your own individual identity in a relationship.
10. Online Dating Survival Guide: Get the secrets of safe and effective online dating from this survival guide.
11. Getting it right: A survival guide to modern manners: You can learn the essentials of modern manners from this guide.
12. Healthy relationship survival guide to relieving tension: In this guide, you’ll learn about facing difficulties together.
13. Dating survival guide: Use this guide to find information on dating well online.

Food

Improve your cooking skills with the help of these guides.

1. Cheap and Easy Cooking: This book offers a guide to cooking for college students and recent grads.
2. Nutrition Survival Guide: In this guide, you’ll learn how to develop healthy eating habits.
3. Eat This Not That Supermarket Survival Guide: Get a healthy guide to surviving the supermarket here.
4. Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen: Get foolproof cooking with the help of this guide.
5. The Healthy College Cookbook: Make your own healthy food, even if you’re pressed for time and money.
6. A Multivitamin Survival Guide: Learn about the ins and outs of multivitamins in this survival guide.
7. A Culinary Survival Guide: Find ten basic cooking tips in this guide.
8. Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Find easy recipes that are great for anyone living on their own.
9. Ultimate Fast Food Survival Guide: Follow this guide to learn how to make the most of fast food.

Real Estate & Moving

Get solid advice for buying your first home, renting, and dealing with roommates from these guides.

1. Rental Survival Guide: In this guide, you’ll find lots of great tips for getting what you need out of your rental.
2. A Survival Guide for Buying a Home: Use this book, and you’ll learn all of the important details for purchasing a home of your own.
3. Apartment Living Survival Guide: Find out how to survive living in an apartment from this guide.
4. Roommate Survival Guide: This guide offers information on living in harmony with others.
5. The First Time Homeowner’s Handbook: Here you’ll find a complete guide and workbook for first time homebuyers.
6. The 106 Common Mistakes Homebuyers Make: Use this guide to avoid making common homebuying mistakes.
7. Packing Survival Guide: Follow this guide, and you’ll find useful tips for getting packed up and moved in.
8. Nolo’s Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home: Get the best tips for first time homebuyers from this book.
9. Roommate survival guide: This guide has 15 strategies for making your roommate relationship work.
10. 100 Questions Every First-Time Homebuyer Should Ask: Get questions and answers to important homebuying questions with this guide.
11. A Roommate Survival Guide: Learn how to prevent common and uncommon errors among roommates with this guide.

Independence

Embrace your newfound independence with the help of these guides.

1. Leaving home: This guide will help you think about the new responsibilities you’ll have to take on now that you’re leaving home.
2. Where’s My Mom Now That I Need Her?: Find hints and tips about shopping, laundry, first aid, and much more in this guidebook.
3. Leaving Home-A Survival Guide: This guide offers advice on real estate, money, shopping, and lots more.
4. Survival guide for kids leaving home: Find resources, advice, and more for leaving home in this survival guide.
5. Survival kit for leaving home: Check out this guide to learn how you can embrace your newfound freedom.

Health

These guides can help you maintain your health after graduation.

1. Survival Guide to Safe and Healthy Travel: This guide will help you ensure that your travel is safe and healthy.
2. Summer Health Survival Guide: Here you’ll find useful tips and information for staying healthy in the heat.
3. Physical Health Survival Guide: With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to improve your physical health.
4. Mental Health Survival Guide: Use this guide to help maintain your mental health.

Graduate School

Get good advice for doing well in graduate school through these survival guides.

1. Survival Tips for Graduate School: Check out this guide for a collection of advice for graduate school.
2. Ultimate Grad School Survival Guide: This guide will help make your grad school experience more pleasant.
3. Graduate School Survival Guide: Find out how to make the most of relationships, research, and more in this guide.