I can say I admired the student services people at my college, and the ones with whom I worked most closely, the career counselors, were quite kind. I attended a few general workshops (like etiquette for business dinners, attending job fairs, etc.) and had quite a few one-on-one appointments with a counselor who was very nice and gave me all this information on what I could do with my major. She also taped a mock job interview with me and then gave me feedback (she said I had done a great job, too), which made me feel so much more comfortable with the prospect of having interviews in real life. I thought I did well on all of my real job interviews, plus I had a great resume (which my career counselor approved and said was great), but... I never got a "proper" job (I do freelance work to scrape by now).
Either it was a combination of the job market, the fact that I'm extremely picky (I want a job within a short driving distance and there wasn't much in my field), and/or I didn't have the right "connections," but I've quite often been picked to be a final candidate for a job without actually getting the job. I still applaud what the career center did for me--I can't imagine what else they could have done for me besides magically getting me a job--and they really made me confident that I was going to have a great life after college, but I've felt more lost than ever after graduating (two years ago now).
I don't know. What else can someone who works in that division do? My career center said they even work with alumni, so I could have gone back to them for help, but after all those tools they had given me and I had failed, I felt too ashamed to turn to them for more help. What more could they have done for me? I had already become less picky and was interviewing for jobs not in the field I wanted, but I still couldn't get even those. How would you handle meeting with an alumna like me, who followed all of the career center's steps and advice and still has nothing to show for it?
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Date: 2007-10-08 06:09 pm (UTC)Either it was a combination of the job market, the fact that I'm extremely picky (I want a job within a short driving distance and there wasn't much in my field), and/or I didn't have the right "connections," but I've quite often been picked to be a final candidate for a job without actually getting the job. I still applaud what the career center did for me--I can't imagine what else they could have done for me besides magically getting me a job--and they really made me confident that I was going to have a great life after college, but I've felt more lost than ever after graduating (two years ago now).
I don't know. What else can someone who works in that division do? My career center said they even work with alumni, so I could have gone back to them for help, but after all those tools they had given me and I had failed, I felt too ashamed to turn to them for more help. What more could they have done for me? I had already become less picky and was interviewing for jobs not in the field I wanted, but I still couldn't get even those. How would you handle meeting with an alumna like me, who followed all of the career center's steps and advice and still has nothing to show for it?