Hi Matthew
First, a little background on myself and my practice. I don't physically attend a sangha, I practice at home using the resources available to me through the internet and books. I live alone and work part time so have a lot of time for dedicated practice. I've been practicing for around three years now.
Personally, I always hope everyone who has taken up this hobby-study has well personalized it on their own. It's like anything: one gets out of the practice and out of one's sentient peers (some of whom may be in the role of stated or unstated "teacher") what one puts into the hobby-study. So if I personally study in my own time and experimentation whiskey-making on my own, the distillery tour with master distillers and other students is way more useful than if I think I can just learn it all on the distillery tour. I think you know this, but I like to say it.
Has anyone got any advice to offer to a newly awakened noob? I believe I still have cravings and knots that need loosening and shedding, I expect continuing on with practice with obviously help with maturing and development.
So I would refer to a fruition moment as a "extinguishment", not as "awakening" (though "awakening" is a common reference, as in (starting to) waking up to seeing things as they are, waking up to seeing conditions of cause-and-effect and how one operates personally), as that ("extinguishment") is the meaning of nibbana and there are affective traits of mind and self views that extinguish, that do go out as a result of sitting calmly to the point the mind relaxes very much and naturally ceases its own arising urges or its recognition of its arising moments (e.g., thoughts).
So, generally, the advice offered is to wait a year, see if any affective traits or viewpoints about self-nature have changed: either attenuated or ceased arising. One knows for themselves if, for example, one's view of what is being a "self" has changed, if a personal, steady self view is greatly undermined.
And then, if this has indeed happened, aka "first path" in the Theravadin map, then one would not be in some perfected state, but merely aware of all the nutty and harmful things one puts in motion via mental seeds of own-greed and own-malice, one would start to see cause-and-effect in the environment and to start learning to apply skillful means to help assuage painful, needless effects in one's own being and their environment (such as practicing the brahmaviharas: kindness, altruistic joy, compassion, equanimity/equipoise). And one would become better, too, at seeing what one is doing correctly: seeing seeds of own-effort, own calming-down, etc...
I hope that helps.