To continue with Commencement week, we're going to hear from someone who didn't even graduate from college: Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs. In 2005 Jobs spoke to the graduating class of Stanford University. While Jobs did not graduate he discusses how his experiences while he was at Reed College shaped the decisions he made with his career and looking back, what advice he has to offer new workers.

You can't connect the dots looking forwards, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something; your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road gives you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leaves you off the well worn path. And that will make all the difference.

On to The Links ...

Lane Wallace at The Atlantic Defends: The Liberal Arts Education. And nails it: "In a flash, I grasped the true value of a college degree. It didn't matter what I majored in. It didn't even matter all that much what my grades were. What mattered was that I got that rectangular piece of paper that said, 'Lane Wallace never has to work in a corrugated cardboard factory again.'"

The Washington Examiner Reports: All you new grads are flocking to the District. DC is tops on a number of best city for jobs lists, which has kept it's unemployment at the relatively stable 6%. So if you are heading here, expect competition. And no, you cannot sleep on my couch.

Cheezhead Reviews: A new Facebook App to help with your career search. Inside Job hooks up FB users with other users who have interviewed or worked at different companies to help users get an insider view of that specific company. I think it sounds good in theory, but how willing will users be to mix professional and personal lives over Facebook? This sounds like a service better served by LinkedIn.

The semester is over. No more ThinkTalk shows until September, but don't worry we will be posting each and everyday right here on the Career Blog. Just because we are not on air, summer doesn't necessarily represent down time at the ThinkTalk HQ. We'll be working on some projects for the fall and are always tweaking with the dot com to provide the best career advice and service we can.

One improvement we have made is the addition of Seesmic commenting on our guest pages and blogs. This, we hope, will make it easier for students to submit questions to our upcoming guests. We're also working on a career news feed that will work as a supplement to the daily links we post in the blog. These feeds can be found on our sidebar under the "Gig-formation" (get it: information on gigs!) and "Career Opportunities" for job postings and listings we see that stand out. As always your input is welcomed on how these services increase your user experience.

For this week, in honor of all the graduates, we are going to be presenting the best commencement video's we see from this year's closing ceremonies. If there is a particular commencement video you think we should highlight, drop me a line at zack at thinktalk dot com. Today's video comes courtesy of Carnegie Mellon class of 2009 featuring Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

On the The Links ...

The Atlantic's Richard Florida Breaks Down: Where 2009's 2.3 million graduates are going for jobs. "The list is heavy on big cities. It differs considerably from the Wall Street Journal's youth magnet list, but it's quite similar to a list my research team and I developed of the best places for recent college graduates which put big cities like San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, and New York on top."

Cheezhead Found: An "internship stimulus package.""Think Intern, a new internship search engine, resource, and scholarship website, is offering relief in the form of scholarship money to recent college graduates struggling to find a job. Jeffrey Adler, co-founder of Think Intern, said the new $3,000 scholarship created by Think Intern and The Gallery Collection aims to offset the financial burdens of interning during a student’s college career."

Secrets of the Job Hunt Discusses: The importance of industry contacts in landing a job ... and what to do if you don't have any. This is a very informative post with some good ideas on getting your foot in the door when you don't have a real world contact. As I've mentioned before, the majority of jobs come from connections, not search engines, so do what you need to cultivate these relationships.