Day 1: Job Hunt

As you may have seen on my Twitter feed, I’m now in Los Angeles, throwing my job net over the metropolis known as L.A., and all I’ve caught are crabs… wait a second… In the weeks leading up to moving, I began to realize my resume sucked, so I had been desperately re-tuning it to showcase my abilities. If anything positive comes out of job hunting, it’s that you spend hours pouring over 2-sheets of papers and over analyzing whether every word conveys who you are, so eventually you’re able to summarize your accomplishments pretty well.

Yahoo recently posted an article of 5 steps to help your job hunt. Of course it would be more helpful if they were new suggestions I hadn’t already seen. But what’s interesting to note was the large percent of people who said they’re unhappy with their new job. Bad sign for a lot of companies once the economy turns around.

I’m glad I’m beginning my job search before college seniors graduate in the spring, although it may not make that much of a difference. With a recent job I applied for, I went through the interview process and found out later who I was up against — people with years and years of experience, and they were all fighting me over a part time job. It’s brutal out there.

With all that said, I just have to keep at it. I spent several hours today calling production offices, searching online sites, and contacting recruiters. We’ll see where all these roads lead.