Hey, look at you—you just graduated (congrats)! Now it’s time to find a job (bummer). Sure, some of your fellow recent alumni already had jobs lined up, but those people are secretly robots designed to steal jobs from the debt-ridden college grads. Or so I’ve heard. Right now, you gotta focus on going all in on your job search. Not sure what finding a job will be like? It won’t be fun, that’s for sure.
When You Send out 30 Apps and Feel Great about Your Chances
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When the application asks you to list “Reason for Leaving”
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When you feel discriminated against because of something on your resume
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when you start dreaming of making dat money
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When Weeks go by and you still haven’t heard back and your optimism is fading
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when you’re starting to lose hope
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when you see an email from an employer
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when the email turns out to be a rejection email, because of course
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When you parents ask you how the job search is going
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When you start to go crazy because it’s been three months and still nada
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when you eventually have to go back to your part-time summer job because your career search is going no where
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when you just DGAF about your part-time job
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When you get so bored at home and you have no idea what you’re doing anymore
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When all your friends are getting jobs and the highlight of your day is watching Maury
When you get asked if you’ve found a job yet
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when you get an email from an employer…and they want to interview you
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when you walk in to the office and see all the other candidates
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when you’re asked a question you’re not prepared for
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When you’re told “We’ll get back to you shortly”
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when you get asked how your interview went
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When you’re told they went with a more qualified candidate
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When you’re asked to come back for a second interview but you can’t believe your good fortune
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When you think you actually may have possibly (who knows?) aced the interview
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when you finally land a job and you feel on top of the world
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