Searching for a job, you are, hmm?

I have decided to redirect this blog slightly towards co-op jobs and opportunities. I have never really had to search for jobs that vigorously, all of my previous employment circumstances have come from personal connections with someone on the inside. I guess I’ve had it pretty good so far. Hopefully that will continue after graduating; I’m hoping to get some more connections in the industry to make things easier for myself. This is part of the reason I’m contemplating signing up for the co-cop program now. Obviously contacts can be made outside of co-op, and there is a good chance I could procure a job in the industry with out the help of the co-op, there is something to be said for “position security”. But I suppose that even the co-op doesn’t guarantee you anything; there are still interviews to be conducted and résumés to be done. The main reason I would chose co-op is the greater variety of available jobs. I imagine you will find more opportunity through co-op than trying to find a placement yourself; there are so many aspects of the program that it would be all too easy to overlook many of them. It would be interesting to see if the co-op interviews are that much different from a standard employment interview, because, they know more about you and where you are coming from, and they know what level you are supposedly at. But on the other hand they probably try to make it as life like as possible, and realistically they are still looking for an employee. Connections, as Paul stated in our last lecture class, are invaluable in this region. It’s more about who you know than what you know, and I like that because I have quite a few connections. My dad knows everybody in this town, and went to school with half of them. I’m not ashamed to ask for a hand up, I’ll take a little charity any day. It’s only a shame that the school asks for a few hundred dollars for their charity…

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