My friend, who is also 2 years out of a small liberal arts college and currently in the thralls of an exhilerating love affair with unemployment, sent me this message today. I think it speaks for itself.
1. i had a job interview on the phone. i was in tahoe. i didnt have reception in the house so i had to do it outside, while it was snowing. they liked me and asked me to come to an in-person interview. later that day, i got an email saying that they had just realized they could not fund the position and thus were not hiring for it.
2. something that you should not do - look at all of the places you have applied to, go to their staff pages, and see the people they have hired and how much better (and better looking!!) they are than you. example:
David , Program Associate – Recruitment
David comes to Global Citizen Year with a passion for education, civic engagement, and grassroots organizing. He recently returned from Venezuela, where he served as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Prior to his time abroad, David worked as a field organizer on the Obama presidential campaign in Missouri and as a legislative staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Mike Honda’s Washington D.C. offices. He also brings his experience teaching and tutoring at UC Berkeley, the University of the Andes in Venezuela, and public schools in the Bay Area and Washington, D.C.
David holds a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Education from the University of California, Berkeley. While in graduate school, David earned Division I All-American honors and served as captain of the track and field team.
