And the Job Hunt of 2009 Continues...

[fenderlove]

Put in a lot of resumes, made some calls, sent a crazy-ton of e-mails over the past few days and nothing. I'm still on the search. I have the fear that by the time I actually get a positive call-back I'll be so desperate that I'll accept a job that I cannot live off of. Looks like rent is going to be at least $550-650 a month by what my calling of all the local property people tell me. I need to make at least $9 an hour on a full-time schedule to be able to cover rent, amenities, and make my loan payments every month, and the jobs that are hiring aren't paying anywhere near that. O__o;;; I'm going to be buried underneath a mountain of credit card debt before I'm 25, I can see it now.

Comments

[emac66.livejournal.com]

Look up Head hunters, they are always looking for people with skills, advertising agencies, what about the local newspaper, and local magazines, ask the employment agencies or local college if they need your skills to teach others. Any place that has a web page, that is local is a good stomping ground for you. check to see when their last update was, if is being updated on a regular basis. Even if you offer contract work, that way you can do multiple jobs for various places and set your own fees.

[emac66.livejournal.com]

Sorry....'nother thought. I'm assuming you have a portfolio? Put it together, along with a smacking good resume and make appointments with the design department. Don't wait for them to answer you....take the initiative, be assertive. Let them know that THEY need YOU...not the other way around, (althought that much is true, but they don't know that) Offer yourself under contract as I said before. For each place you are able to get a meeting for, have some ideas, simple ones, that can show them that you are thinking about them, improvement they can make etc....They want to boost business themselves, so if you can show them that you can improve that for them, they may show more interest.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

My portfolio: savannadesignsitall.com . My resume lists all my skills and education and previous work experience. I can't "be assertive" unless they actually have me in for an interview. And you never tell people the ideas you have for their business during an interview because they'll just take them and not hire you.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Been there and done all that. Magazines, newspapers, etc. are the first places I went to since they have a higher likelihood of needing a designer. I've made myself available for freelance and still nothing. Believe me when I say that I have dried the well when it comes to anything listed in the area, which is why I'm now pounding the pavement, going from business to business in search of anything.