On Job Hunting
I know the title says job hunting but I JUST started job hunting and don't really have much to say about it. So this post is going to be a bunch of random thoughts about the recent job hunting experience.
As you all already know, I will be graduating this upcoming March, so that leaves me with 6 months of freedom before going back to school for my master's degree. Woohoo! Freedom! And then I calculated tuition for the master's program and immediately got sad because it's like $13K or so. Guess I have to drag my butt to work if I want to be able to afford tuition.
So the job hunt began. I've applied to part-time jobs before so I thought I've kind of gotten the hang of it. But I did some research beforehand and apparently everyone has something to say about what approach is best at finding a REAL job. I read advice saying "make your resume more personal" and then the next article says, "Recruiters only spend 6 seconds or less per resume so make it concise". Then some others say, "Without an objective, I have no idea what you want so I'm tossing your resume." And of course, the very next article will say, "I am not interested in what you want, only what you have to offer. If you list it and my offers don't fit what you want, I wouldn't read the rest of your resume."
This is me now:
Isn't the internet such a lovely place? *sarcasm*
At this point I don't think there are truly any right or wrong ways. Having seen how my previous manager handled the hiring process, my guess is that the factors of whether a person gets hired is really about fit, timing, and budget. I'm sure little things here and there can boost the chances of my resume getting noticed, but at the end of the day everything else is beyond my control.
Anyway, I have a love/hate relationship with the internet when it comes to research. On the one hand, you find a lot of very informative articles about your topic of interest, yet on the other hand, there are just so many conflicting and sometimes very misinformed articles and news posts floating around. So picture this:
You're all hyped up with curiosity about a certain subject, and after an hour of research, you're feeling pretty good about how much you've progressed. Then in the second hour you stumble upon a whole other section of the internet that basically refute everything you've just read in the first hour.
Yeah. I feel like Squidward understands my frustration.
Excuse me while I proceed to delete all my documents and start over from scratch. Why does that sound so much less satisfying than tearing a stack of paper resumes to bits? Darn technology.
As you all already know, I will be graduating this upcoming March, so that leaves me with 6 months of freedom before going back to school for my master's degree. Woohoo! Freedom! And then I calculated tuition for the master's program and immediately got sad because it's like $13K or so. Guess I have to drag my butt to work if I want to be able to afford tuition.
So the job hunt began. I've applied to part-time jobs before so I thought I've kind of gotten the hang of it. But I did some research beforehand and apparently everyone has something to say about what approach is best at finding a REAL job. I read advice saying "make your resume more personal" and then the next article says, "Recruiters only spend 6 seconds or less per resume so make it concise". Then some others say, "Without an objective, I have no idea what you want so I'm tossing your resume." And of course, the very next article will say, "I am not interested in what you want, only what you have to offer. If you list it and my offers don't fit what you want, I wouldn't read the rest of your resume."
This is me now:
Isn't the internet such a lovely place? *sarcasm*
At this point I don't think there are truly any right or wrong ways. Having seen how my previous manager handled the hiring process, my guess is that the factors of whether a person gets hired is really about fit, timing, and budget. I'm sure little things here and there can boost the chances of my resume getting noticed, but at the end of the day everything else is beyond my control.
Anyway, I have a love/hate relationship with the internet when it comes to research. On the one hand, you find a lot of very informative articles about your topic of interest, yet on the other hand, there are just so many conflicting and sometimes very misinformed articles and news posts floating around. So picture this:
You're all hyped up with curiosity about a certain subject, and after an hour of research, you're feeling pretty good about how much you've progressed. Then in the second hour you stumble upon a whole other section of the internet that basically refute everything you've just read in the first hour.
Yeah. I feel like Squidward understands my frustration.
Excuse me while I proceed to delete all my documents and start over from scratch. Why does that sound so much less satisfying than tearing a stack of paper resumes to bits? Darn technology.
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