{"id":1680,"date":"2015-02-03T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2015-02-02T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:23:20","slug":"sara-lets-talk-about-job-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/02\/03\/sara-lets-talk-about-job-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara: Let’s Talk About Job Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my world, where I am now a second semester senior. When did that happen? No, really\u2026. when?!<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to leave the safety of the college bubble and enter into the \u201creal world.\u201d Although I\u2019m definitely ready to be done with school, searching for a job actually slightly terrifies me. It\u2019s a delicate balance between fear and excitement but it feels incredible knowing all that\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a senior reading this, I\u2019m sure you feel the same way. If you\u2019re an underclassmen, it\u2019s totally plausible you feel this way about finding an internship too! No worries though, we\u2019re in this together.<\/p>\n

Thoughts that have crossed my mind (to make you feel less alone):<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>–<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>New York, LA, Boston, Austin? I\u2019ll honestly go anywhere but it\u2019s definitely something you want to seriously consider. If you don\u2019t love LA, then don\u2019t move there! Or want to stay close to home, then do that! You now get to decide where you really want to live, and that power is awesome. Go where you\u2019re heart takes you (cheesy and true).<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Do I want to do PR? Or go more towards marketing? Or maybe branding could be interesting? I\u2019m not ruling anything out and neither should you. Your time here at BU has certainly prepared you for many incredible opportunities. It\u2019s all about tweaking your resume and cover letter to shape your experiences and apply them to job postings<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>What industry should I work in? Entertainment? Or food? The advice I keep getting from everyone: Do what makes you happy, and do it now. It can be really scary to take a leap of faith but I don\u2019t want to look back years from now and wish I had taken another path. I plan on waiting to find a great job in the field I love, rather than just take anything to have a crappy job.<\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes, things happen unconventionally. How many times have you been to an alumni panel at BU and they\u2019ve told you a crazy story about how they got a job they love? Leave room for the unimaginable and remember, you don\u2019t always have to play by the rules (but shhh, you didn\u2019t hear that from me!)<\/span><\/p>\n

And if along the way, you happen to find any communication jobs in New York, LA, or just about anywhere in the South that talk a lot about loving food and wanting to make it your life, pass that along to me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my world, where I am now a second semester senior. When did that happen? No, really\u2026. when?! It\u2019s time to leave the safety of the college bubble and enter into the \u201creal world.\u201d Although I\u2019m definitely ready to be done with school, searching for a job actually slightly terrifies me. It\u2019s a delicate … Continue reading Sara: Let’s Talk About Job Searching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}