{"id":517,"date":"2010-04-20T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/cesblogs\/?p=517"},"modified":"2015-07-16T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T20:11:30","slug":"a-logger-on-the-verge-do-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/cesblogs\/2010\/04\/20\/a-logger-on-the-verge-do-something\/","title":{"rendered":"A Logger on the Verge: Do Something"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post: CES Student Staff member Wanda Sok<\/strong> is a graduating senior studying Business and Psychology.<\/em><\/p>\n

I was counting down the days until Spring Break and practicing self talk; \u201conly one more exam to go, two more essays to write, just twelve more hours\u201d I kept telling myself all week. When Friday evening finally rolled around, I couldn\u2019t hide the wide smile that crept across my face. I was halfway through my last semester of college!<\/p>\n

I was headed to sunny California to enjoy my week away from reality, or so I thought. That first weekend, I spent hours recreationally reading in the sunshine on a beach blanket, bouncing around on the trampoline, and staying up all night to watch movies and binge on junk food. And when the weekend ended and everyone I was staying with was headed off to work on Monday morning, I panicked.<\/em><\/p>\n

I realized something that Monday morning; I had intentionally made myself so busy this semester so that I wouldn\u2019t have to think about my post graduation plans. And now that I had a moment where I didn\u2019t have something I had to do, I didn\u2019t know what to do but face my joblessness. I was moving to a new state, leaving behind familiarity, family and friends and I had no job offers nor did I even know where to start looking because everything was so new.<\/p>\n

After my initial stress and anxiety subsided, I suddenly realized: new is good! Changes and unfamiliarity can be uncomfortable and frightening but ultimately these are factors that I can control. Because I have been fortunate enough to work for a student service office in a college setting for over three years and like it, I thought it would be a great starting point.<\/p>\n

I spent the rest of that Monday afternoon creating a database of all the universities and community colleges in the surrounding area where I will be living. I included links to every college\u2019s human resource page and marked job openings and due dates that I qualified for. This will allow me to go back and frequently visit these pages for new job postings. I felt better after doing this because it was a productive step towards my post-graduation plans.<\/p>\n

When Tuesday morning came, I decided to create a portfolio. I included the invitations, name tags and programs that I had designed for an event that I am helping to plan. I also added previous blogs, financial documents that I\u2019ve worked on and instructional handouts I\u2019ve made. I was proud of my work and felt like I needed a central place to store it–I believe this will make me more competitive and really separate me from other candidates.<\/p>\n

Doing these things during Spring Break helped to ease my graduation anxiety. Again, this is only step one for me but nonetheless a start is still better than nothing. Next on the list is doing more informational interviews, creating a new network of professionals to get in touch with and actually submitting applications. An online job search is only the beginning; it may still be a while until I finally get that job, but doing something about it made me feel better than doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 2010 Career and Employment Services, University of Puget Sound<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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