Hi all!
I'm a pretty fresh out of school guy who has started a career path down the Cognos BI Author road, currently in the process of learning how all this works.
This seems like a real nice community :)
Welcome to Cognoise! Happy to have you aboard! :)
MF.
Welcome go Cognoise.
For learning, if your employer is not offering formal training, I'd suggest perusing the Report Studio User Guide, available in Report Studio as Help > Contents. It is actually pretty decent, and if you have the Cognos sample data available, you can play with the examples in the guide.
It's a very capable tool, but to bring out the best of its abilities will take a bit of study. At least, it did for me. :-)