In the Margins: The Guided Career Journal You Didn’t Know You Needed

In the Margins: The Guided Career Journal You Didn’t Know You Needed

Created by No Particular Order in collaboration with Home From College, In the Margins is a career-readiness journal designed to help students reflect, reset, and actually succeed.

Sophia Rocha

📝 New Drop: In the Margins by No Particular Order x Home From College

Launching your career is hard. Finding mentorship, motivation, and meaningful next steps is even harder. That’s where In the Margins comes in.

Created by No Particular Order in collaboration with Home From College, In the Margins is a career-readiness journal designed to help students reflect, reset, and actually get somewhere. Think of it as a mentor in book form; one that shows up every day, asks the right questions, and leaves space for your answers.

📓 What is In the Margins?

In the Margins is a 64-page guided journal that helps students build momentum in three key areas: Leveraging Relationships, Staying Motivated, and Career Readiness. Over the course of a semester, students work through daily prompts to explore their goals, expand their networks, and prepare to launch confidently into their next chapter.

Inside you’ll find:

  • 48 unique prompts to help clarify your mindset and mission

  • 12 blank pages for scratch notes, to-dos, and dreams in progress

  • 12 professional conversation starters (because yes, networking is still a thing)

  • A built-in folder for loose notes, resumes, or business cards you collect along the way

The prompts were shaped by real conversations with students from Home From College’s national student advisory panel. From what excites them to what keeps them up at night, their input made sure the journal reflects the lived experiences of today’s students navigating early career paths.

📍 Where to Find In the Margins?

In the Margins is available now at www.noparticularorder.co and stocked in select campus bookstores across the U.S. and Canada.

📸 Want to Be Featured?

We’re highlighting student stories from campuses coast to coast in our Instagram series, College Chronicles. If you’re using In the Margins or want to share how you’re making moves this semester, tag @homefromcollege and @noparticularorder and reach out to foster@noparticularorder.co — we’d love to feature your journey.

🖋 Why the Name?

Because that’s where the good stuff lives. The margins are where thoughts expand, questions deepen, and unexpected ideas start to connect. It’s where real career clarity begins: not in the perfect plan, but in the honest process of figuring it out.

💡 Pro tip: You don’t have to rush through it. 

The journal is designed to be completed over the course of a semester, but if you’re a slower writer or a bigger reflector, it’s built to grow with you. Come back to it. Reread it. Restart it. Just don’t leave it blank.

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