Armed with a degree and a suite of skills, you’re suddenly ousted from an environment of comfort and familiarity (namely, school) and thrust headfirst into a vast, alien world of networking, lunching with recruiters and applying for jobs. Fortune favors the prepared, and as daunting as job searching may seem, - it is a process you can master if you put in a bit of work. Here are the five must-haves you need when embarking on a mission to land your first job: