Personally I'd start with Corporate Confidential by Susan Dephillips. Skip the first chapter but pay attention to the rest. You aren't in academia anymore and

Personally I'd start with Corporate Confidential by Susan Dephillips. Skip the first chapter but pay attention to the rest. You aren't in academia anymore and this will give you some hints as to what's expected of you as your career progresses. (As an aside, people here will suggest the other Corporate Confidential by Cynthia Shapiro but I do not recommend it. It does contain some nuggets of valid and useful information but a lot of it is presented in an excessively cynical and lurid way designed to appeal to the conspiracy theorist, something there's no shortage of on HN, or aren't applicable to the software profession. For example, Secret 29 "Your Values Are On Your Desk" particularly made me roll my eyes; nobody gives a hoot what's on your desk unless it's growing mold and the "...many internal promotions fail within the first year and are either fired or demoted..." also elicited a snort. Unless you're unlucky enough to be starting your career in a particularly toxic work environment, people are not going to be out to get you to that degree.) If you haven't read DeMarco and Lister's Peopleware, that would also be an excellent choice.