--- title: Career Start; 4 Lucrative Careers You Haven't Considered description: Helping recent graduates find their career start through a discovery and qualification outline image: https://www.guidedgraduate.com/hubfs/Stock%20images/Business%20man%20in%20suit%20looking%20at%20cloud%20with%20falling%20money%20and%20sun.jpeg --- [![Career Start](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Guiding%20(1)-865294-edited.png?width=269&height=269&name=Guiding%20(1)-865294-edited.png "Career Start")](https://www.guidedgraduate.com) [![Free Consultation](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2953108/3b9dbc4d-def0-4c37-9366-2482962e15a9.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2953108/3b9dbc4d-def0-4c37-9366-2482962e15a9) # Career Start Blog ## [Career Start; 4 Lucrative Careers You Haven't Considered](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/blog/career-start-4-lucrative-careers-your-career-center-professors-never-mentioned) [fa icon="calendar"] Apr 21, 2017 2:31:38 PM / by [Jake Stevenson](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/blog/author/jake-stevenson) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) --- **![Career Start for Financial Freedom](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stock%20images/Business%20man%20in%20suit%20looking%20at%20cloud%20with%20falling%20money%20and%20sun.jpeg?width=447&name=Business%20man%20in%20suit%20looking%20at%20cloud%20with%20falling%20money%20and%20sun.jpeg "Career Start for Financial Freedom")** **If you’re graduating from college or recently received your diploma, you 'll find yourself in one of the 5 buckets below:** - You started interviewing and have a job lined up in something closely related to your major. Congrats,** feel free to ****exit out of this window as this may not apply.** - You’ve been interviewing and have started to receive offers but haven’t yet found something you love. - You’ve been interviewing and have yet to receive an offer. Maybe you haven’t found something you’re passionate enough about or maybe you just need to work on your interview skills. - You’ve either received offers, or haven't, in a field closely related to your major. Through the job search, you've realized you’re just not that excited about the most relevant opportunities. - You started a job in a field you studied and over the past several months have realized you’re just not that into it. ![Hand with marker writing the text Customer Retention.jpeg](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stock%20images/Hand%20with%20marker%20writing%20the%20text%20Customer%20Retention.jpeg?width=377&name=Hand%20with%20marker%20writing%20the%20text%20Customer%20Retention.jpeg) **Customer Success/Account Management**   - Excel at building and maintaining longer-term relationships with people - Enjoy teaching and coaching others - Don't mind having tough conversations or delivering bad news - Best results come from working with teams rather than individual projects - Prefer to solve issues in person or over the phone vs via email/text/automation **If the above fits, look at jobs w/ variations of the titles below : ** - Account Manager - Client Services - Customer Success **+** *Coordinator Associate Representative*   ![New Markets Concept - 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Prefer to solve issues through an automated system/email/text vs live conversation - Seek to understand how machinery and technology works - Naturally better at solving technical bugs than many of your peers - Enjoy educating others Calm and patient **If the above fits, look at jobs w/ variations of the titles below : ** - Technical Support - Technical Services - Customer Support - Implementation **+** *Representative, Coordinator, Associate, Entry-level*   ![Find The Right People written on road sign.jpeg](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stock%20images/Find%20The%20Right%20People%20written%20on%20road%20sign.jpeg?width=412&name=Find%20The%20Right%20People%20written%20on%20road%20sign.jpeg) **Recruiting/HR**   - Enjoy building and nurturing relationships - Naturally curious - Ability deliver tough feedback - Enjoy coaching through constructive criticism - Highly organized **If the above fits, look at jobs w/ variations of the titles below: ** - Recruiter - HR Generalyst - Human Resources **+** *Admin, Coordinator, Associate*   After getting some initial traction on the road to your career start, check out our ebook on best interview practices to starting preparing and eventually landing your next job.  **Download here:** [![Ace Your Next Interview](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2953108/df0c7773-d0a7-4078-a306-fc0b6342cf8c.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2953108/df0c7773-d0a7-4078-a306-fc0b6342cf8c) #### Written by [Jake Stevenson](https://www.guidedgraduate.com/blog/author/jake-stevenson) Journalist turned Recruiter turned Entrepreneur [[fa icon="linkedin-square"]Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakefstevenson/) [[fa icon="twitter-square"]Twitter](https://twitter.com/GuidedGraduate) ### Subscribe to Email Updates - 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