The final count down has begun. I have my last day of classes tomorrow. I think I am done with my final, final paper (I'm half a page short but am unable to think of anything else to write). And I have a small group project and a take home final to officially be done with school. Now I just need someone to hire me.
I did have a phone interview this morning, but it was very short (15 minutes). We'll see if I make it to the next round. It's for a library assistant II job, which means that since I will have my master of science in information in 11 days I am very over qualified for the job. Since starting my job search I've applied for about 25 jobs (I've started loosing count) and this is only the second interview I've gotten. I do have about 5 out that the position close date isn't until the end of this week or next week so I could still hear from them. All the rejection letters I've gotten (5 or so) have basically said that while I'm qualified there were people with more experience so I'm not being considered. A real bummer since I might be a perfect fit but because I don't have 2 or more years of professional experience they aren't even going to look at me. It's very frustrating. I know that I am good at what I do, because I love what I do and at my internship I'm allowed to do everything that the full time employees do and everyone keeps telling me how much they are going to miss me after graduation.
The terror of not finding a job is defiantly starting to hit. I've been looking pretty consistently since February now but I guess 6 months of searching is pretty average and I'm only 2 months in. I really don't want to move home. Not that I don't love my family but it's been drilled into my head since I was a child that you go to college, get a job and don't move back home. And while this has been the mantra I do think my parents would either help me pay for something until I found a job or let me move home, it just feels like I'm being defeated if that turns out to be the case.
Hopefully I'll start getting more interviews and fewer rejection letters and will end up somewhere great soon. And hopefully I'll also start keeping this more up to date, but we'll see what happens.
So... what is going on? Anything panning out for you? Just thinking of you and thought I'd send a shout out! I hope all is going well!
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