Jobs

One of the scariest things about graduating is finding a job. I'm extremely scared about that because I took a commerce degree. I majored in finance but I hate finance. And there's such a vast amount of things I could do with my degree. But I don't know what I want to do. I really have no idea. And it's freaky looking for a job.

First, the resume. Making resumes SUCKS. Anyone who's made one knows what I mean. And what I'm doing is making a functional resume. That means that rather than having my previous employment at the forefront, it will be in the background, maybe 3 lines long. What I'm going to up-play are the skills I've learned through taking my degree. Which means I am going to completely re-vamp my resume and start from scratch. Which BLOWS.

Secondly, references. Finding references can be harder than one would think. Sure, I can get my manager and owner from work, but what about academic references. Getting a reference from a prof is harder than it sounds. Most profs in university have no idea who their students are. So getting a reference out of one may be difficult.

Third, interviews. I am deathly afraid of interviews. I'm basically going to chalk up the first, oh, 3-5 as learning experiences. Don't worry if I don't get the job, just be glad that I have the mistakes from one more interview to learn from.

And you know, just finding the jobs is difficult. I have a bag of crap I picked up at a career fair in September that I plan on sifting through over Christmas to see what I would like to do.

On the upside, I just got an e-mail from a person at Freedom 55 Financial. I am taking a class in insurance and it's actually fairly interesting. So, when at the career fair, I made sure to track down all the insurance companies. I left my resume with one of them and just got an e-mail from them. So, he would like me to phone him and set up a time to meet with him. This is good. Too bad I think he's already gone for the day, I'll e-mail him tomorrow.