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I always thought that job searching would be difficult, but I'm surprised at how difficult it really is. I figured I guess that I would know what to do once this time came around and up until this point I've been pretty confident that I'll find something. But it's not like that at all, I hate it!
So far I've applied for a bunch of different things: three jobs at UC Davis, Target, Borders, Amazon.com, Gap/Old Navy, etc. I can't even think of everywhere I've applied. But that's the hardest part, I think, is finding companies I want to work for and then looking for positions that somewhat fit me. I looked at working at like the Hilton/Four Seasons/Mariott because those are good companies, but they have like no openings and all of them seem designed for Hotel Management students. And I looked at Google and Yahoo, but I'm not too interested in the jobs they have posted.
I think I might be too picky. All I see are marketing and financial consulting jobs, and those seem boring to me. I kind of went into this job search saying that I wouldn't consider those positions, but that's all I seem to see. I think about sending in my resume to different companies, but I can't think of where I would send it and I feel like it would be totally useless because they get so many unsolicited resumes as it is.
I realized how important it is to know someone, because I think it's so difficult to even get an interview without a foot in the door. And I think I am at a disadvantage being at UC Davis since we still have like three weeks left of school and lots of other schools are done. It's kind of freaking me out!
So my prospects right now include two jobs at Davis and this job at Target. One job at Davis is a Staff Advisor position for Linguistics/East Asian Studies, and since I'm already a peer advisor I think I could definitely do it and it'd be pretty fun. But I think they might require a masters, so I don't know if they'll ask me to interview.
The other job is definitely promising. It's Assistant Events Manager at Campus Unions and since I work for Campus Unions and know people, I think that I have a good shot (and they asked me to apply). However, I'm not sure I want to take the position. I know the supervisor and I'm pretty sure she dislikes me because of the errors that happened during Native American Culture Days this year. I think she might be pressured to hire me from others in the department and I don't want to work for a huge bitch (and I've heard she definitely is a huge bitch).
And then there's this position for "Executive Team Leader" at Target. I'd basically get two months of training and be assigned as a department head at a Target store. It sounds pretty cool. I'm trying to get over my elitist notions that I'm too good to work at Target (and since I don't have many other choices, Target is sounding pretty good). I'm concerned that it won't lead me in the direction in which I thought I was heading (student affairs) but that's ok, I'm flexible at this point and I always end up in weird but pleasant places (i.e. UC Davis) despite my best efforts at a given goal. I'm also concerned that I'll be placed in a store in some weird city. Up until my second interview, I thought I was applying for a position in Sacramento, but it rapidly became clear that they have jurisdiction north toward Redding, south toward Stockton, east toward Agora Hills, and west toward Woodland. That's a huge area and I really don't want to move to Stockton/Redding/somewhere else. It would ruin my plans to be close to Davis/closer to the Bay Area to visit people, and plus, who wants to live in Redding? No one, that's who. And the other negative here is that I might not know where I'm placed until after the two month training period, which would really suck! I'd go through all the training and then find out I'm moving somewhere annoyingly far away.
So anyway, these are my thoughts of late. Target is going to let me know if they want to hire me within the next two weeks and I haven't even had an interview yet for the Campus Unions position. Now I'm not sure if I should try to apply more places or just see what happens with what I have. What should I do? Anyone have ideas on companies I should try to work for?
So far I've applied for a bunch of different things: three jobs at UC Davis, Target, Borders, Amazon.com, Gap/Old Navy, etc. I can't even think of everywhere I've applied. But that's the hardest part, I think, is finding companies I want to work for and then looking for positions that somewhat fit me. I looked at working at like the Hilton/Four Seasons/Mariott because those are good companies, but they have like no openings and all of them seem designed for Hotel Management students. And I looked at Google and Yahoo, but I'm not too interested in the jobs they have posted.
I think I might be too picky. All I see are marketing and financial consulting jobs, and those seem boring to me. I kind of went into this job search saying that I wouldn't consider those positions, but that's all I seem to see. I think about sending in my resume to different companies, but I can't think of where I would send it and I feel like it would be totally useless because they get so many unsolicited resumes as it is.
I realized how important it is to know someone, because I think it's so difficult to even get an interview without a foot in the door. And I think I am at a disadvantage being at UC Davis since we still have like three weeks left of school and lots of other schools are done. It's kind of freaking me out!
So my prospects right now include two jobs at Davis and this job at Target. One job at Davis is a Staff Advisor position for Linguistics/East Asian Studies, and since I'm already a peer advisor I think I could definitely do it and it'd be pretty fun. But I think they might require a masters, so I don't know if they'll ask me to interview.
The other job is definitely promising. It's Assistant Events Manager at Campus Unions and since I work for Campus Unions and know people, I think that I have a good shot (and they asked me to apply). However, I'm not sure I want to take the position. I know the supervisor and I'm pretty sure she dislikes me because of the errors that happened during Native American Culture Days this year. I think she might be pressured to hire me from others in the department and I don't want to work for a huge bitch (and I've heard she definitely is a huge bitch).
And then there's this position for "Executive Team Leader" at Target. I'd basically get two months of training and be assigned as a department head at a Target store. It sounds pretty cool. I'm trying to get over my elitist notions that I'm too good to work at Target (and since I don't have many other choices, Target is sounding pretty good). I'm concerned that it won't lead me in the direction in which I thought I was heading (student affairs) but that's ok, I'm flexible at this point and I always end up in weird but pleasant places (i.e. UC Davis) despite my best efforts at a given goal. I'm also concerned that I'll be placed in a store in some weird city. Up until my second interview, I thought I was applying for a position in Sacramento, but it rapidly became clear that they have jurisdiction north toward Redding, south toward Stockton, east toward Agora Hills, and west toward Woodland. That's a huge area and I really don't want to move to Stockton/Redding/somewhere else. It would ruin my plans to be close to Davis/closer to the Bay Area to visit people, and plus, who wants to live in Redding? No one, that's who. And the other negative here is that I might not know where I'm placed until after the two month training period, which would really suck! I'd go through all the training and then find out I'm moving somewhere annoyingly far away.
So anyway, these are my thoughts of late. Target is going to let me know if they want to hire me within the next two weeks and I haven't even had an interview yet for the Campus Unions position. Now I'm not sure if I should try to apply more places or just see what happens with what I have. What should I do? Anyone have ideas on companies I should try to work for?