{"id":1110,"date":"2013-10-16T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jobma.com\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2021-07-14T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T07:59:47","slug":"what-your-college-career-counselor-never-told-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/what-your-college-career-counselor-never-told-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Your College Career Counselor Never Told You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a conversation with a friend, who graduated not too long ago but is already well established in his career path, about the nature of searching for your first entry-level job. It\u2019s quite a daunting process, as I\u2019m sure many of you know. Even if you\u2019re not looking for your first big-kid job, perhaps you\u2019re looking to change industries or advance into a higher position in your field. Whatever your situation may be, my friend\u2019s job search advice will be able to offer you a hand in finding positions you\u2019d like to apply for:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23033 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/I-Can\u2019t-Get-an-Interview-WHY-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/I-Can\u2019t-Get-an-Interview-WHY-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/I-Can\u2019t-Get-an-Interview-WHY.png 1024w, https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/I-Can\u2019t-Get-an-Interview-WHY-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/I-Can\u2019t-Get-an-Interview-WHY-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Spend some quality time simply reading job descriptions. <\/b>If you don\u2019t know exactly what your next position will look like, but have a vague idea, that is enough to get started! A great next step is to visit a job board and read the posted job ads listed for the industry you are targeting. For example, Craigslist has a Sales\/Business Development category that lists job ads for everything from insurance representatives and staffing account managers to marketing coordinators. I\u2019d be willing to bet that you\u2019ll probably come across a few titles that are new to you but describe exactly the kind of position you\u2019re looking for.<\/li>\n<li><b>Not every sales job has \u2018sales\u2019 in the title. <\/b>If you know you want to work in a specific industry, that\u2019s great. But don\u2019t limit your search to only job positions that contain that industry keyword in the position title. For example, a financial advisor makes cold calls, meets with clients over happy hour, and networks through their family and friends in order to sell a bank\u2019s products and services. Although the title doesn\u2019t have \u2018sales\u2019 in it, it sure sounds like a sales position to me. Again, this is why you need to spend some time researching and perusing through job descriptions.<\/li>\n<li><b>Five minutes a day keeps unemployment away. <\/b>Job searching does not have to be as intimidating as you think. If you just spend five minutes a day looking through job advertisements and company career pages, you\u2019ll be well on your way to having both a better idea of what you\u2019re looking for and also a specific list of positions that you\u2019d like to apply for. Perhaps set aside an hour or two every weekend to then send these applications out. Your job search will become much more bearable if you break it up like this.<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note: Thank you to my anonymous friend for the helpful job search tips and information contained in this blog post.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"jobs-2\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1381951241\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"What Your College Career Counselor Never Told You\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a conversation with a friend, who graduated not too long ago but is already well established in his career path, about the nature of searching for your first entry-level job. It\u2019s quite a daunting process, as I\u2019m sure many of you know. Even if you\u2019re not looking for your first big-kid job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[266,264,267,69,64,265,263],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs-2","tag-best-job-sites","tag-how-to-find-a-job","tag-job-openings","tag-job-search","tag-job-search-tips","tag-job-search-website","tag-job-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24256,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/24256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.jobma.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}