I’ll be the first to admit that I knew very little about getting a job when I first set out to do so in the fall of 2007. As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and The Lord of the Flies than about how the modern workplace functions and how to succeed in it. Yet come senior year of college, it couldn’t be more important—or more timely—to learn the basics of getting a job.