Final Year

Final year is a lot at once: placements, a capstone, and the looming reality of a first job. This path helps you manage it without burning out.

1. 1 Placement Season: A Survival Playbook  Playbook · intermediate
   A practical playbook for surviving placement season with your sanity intact — how to prepare, how to handle rejections, and how to keep perspective when peers get placed before you.
2. 2 Your Capstone Project: Scoping It Right  Guide · intermediate
   How to scope a final-year capstone so it's ambitious enough to matter but achievable enough to finish — the single decision that determines whether a capstone succeeds or becomes a mess.
3. 3 From Student to Employee: What Changes  Career Advice · intermediate
   The real differences between being a student and being an employee that nobody warns you about — how problems change from 'has a known answer' to open-ended, and how success is measured differently.
4. 4 The First 90 Days at Your First Job  Career Advice · intermediate
   What to actually do in your first three months at your first job — how to onboard well, what managers expect from a new graduate, and how to build a reputation that compounds.
5. 5 From Support Work to Systems Thinking  Career Advice · intermediate
   How to move from reactively closing tickets to proactively understanding and improving the systems behind them — a concrete shift in mindset, not just a title change.

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