{"id":122,"date":"2021-04-09T21:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/?p=122"},"modified":"2021-04-27T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:45:29","slug":"the-best-career-advice-ive-received-thus-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/2021\/04\/09\/the-best-career-advice-ive-received-thus-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Career Advice I’ve Received Thus Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is not the original blog I had planned for today, but this morning I met with one of my favorite professors where he gave me the best career advice I have ever received! I know that my website is turning into a career blog, but when he showed me this resource, my jaw dropped! It would feel wrong to me to sit on this knowledge and not share it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me preface this by talking about my current situation. I have applied for about 40 post-grad jobs and internships with around 15-17 interviews. He told me not to be discouraged by this. That\u2019s almost a fifty percent batting average, right? Getting constant rejection letters can be disheartening but with every rejection letter, you\u2019re one step closer to your full-time dream job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, into the good part! The school has a resource called Reference Solutions. Keep in mind I was only introduced to this today – so you should definitely go check it out for yourself too! To find it, go to the school\u2019s library page, click on articles and databases, got to R, then find Reference Solutions. From what my professor told me, there are two main functions of reference solutions. First, you can look up jobs. Secondly, you can look up companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, I\u2019ll include some screenshots to help guide you and explain how Reference Solutions work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here you can see how you can search by specific career and city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here you can see every job the database has with their location, a link to apply, company, and the date the job was posted. I love this resource! I have found that finding jobs to apply for that I think I would be a good fit for is the most time-consuming part of the process. This resource streamlines that!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This image explains how to look up companies, here I chose to look up a company that I applied to for an example.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Once you look up the company, it will take you here. I clicked on the top one. From there take a look around! The sections my professor highlighted to me, and that I agree might be the most useful are:
Job listings – for obvious reasons
Company News – this is useful when you\u2019re doing research for a company to help yourself stand out during an interview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I hope this information helped you as much as it helped me! \ud83d\ude42 Post-grad can be scary, trust me I know. I feel like any tip helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not the original blog I had planned for today, but this morning I met with one of my favorite professors where he gave me the best career advice I have ever received! I know that my website is turning into a career blog, but when he showed me this resource, my jaw dropped! It would feel wrong to me to sit on this knowledge and not share it. Let me preface this by talking about my current situation. I have applied for about 40 post-grad jobs and internships with around 15-17 interviews. He told me not to be discouraged by this. That\u2019s almost a fifty percent batting average, right? Getting constant rejection letters can be disheartening but with every rejection letter, you\u2019re one step closer to your full-time dream job. Now, into the good part! The school has a resource called Reference Solutions. Keep in mind I was only introduced to this today – so you should definitely go check it out for yourself too! To find it, go to the school\u2019s library page, click on articles and databases, got to R, then find Reference Solutions. From what my professor told me, there are two main functions of reference solutions. First, you can look up jobs. Secondly, you can look up companies.  Here, I\u2019ll include some screenshots to help guide you and explain how Reference Solutions work.  I hope this information helped you as much as it helped me! \ud83d\ude42 Post-grad can be scary, trust me I know. I feel like any tip helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49784,167172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-advice","category-post-grad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/savannahbertram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}