As the editor of this blog, I myself am itching to make it to present time to provide you readers with more job searching tips instead of continuing to list of the many correct (and incorrect) things I’ve done along the way. Although I’m sure you’re all itching to hear the lo down of my job search I have to be quite honest that I’m getting kind of sick of talking about myself. So, for the record, stories of OTHER GRADS will happen later this week. You just wait and see.

I’m going to recap Week 8 for you as quickly as possible.

Monday, July 5 – Lake house with friends for the holiday but I still applied online to an advertising agency in Boston that evening

Tuesday, July 6 – Met with my internship team to gather the To Dos of the week, an IT recruiter contacted me for another job opp AND I contacted an alumni in the area who works at the agency I applied to on Monday.

Wednesday, July 7 – Worked on my internship tasks and heard from my advertising alumni friend. We set up a time to chat via telephone

Thursday, July 8 – Internship work again

Friday, July 9 – Went to the city for an interview

There ya have it, the shortened version of Week 8. I wanted to make it quick because the emotions that set in this week were far more important than the actions that took place. I guess we grads get caught in the “well I applied to five jobs this week and I’m waiting to hear back” instead of taking the time to search for those with a connection to us. I am seriously sick of sifting through lists and lists of uninteresting positions.

I dedicated the next week to solely connecting with people instead of focusing on the numbers. Is that so hard? Find out tomorrow.

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