College Confession – Damn, it Sucks To Be A Senior

How does a college senior go about landing his/her first job in this terrible economy? I have been gainfully employed by The Business Insider for the last year and a half, but I can vividly recall how stressful my job search process was; especially since I had no idea how to tackle it at first. There is endless uncertainty, a mountain of stress, and a lot of character-building rejection that no senior can anticipate until they’re full swing into the process.

After working my butt off in college and putting my high school AP credits to good use, I was rewarded by a walk-in-the-park final semester at Syracuse. I only needed one more class to fulfill my dual major, so I spent the rest of my time working an internship, taking a web-design course for fun, and documenting my job hunt process word for word in more than fifty pages.

I recorded every shameless last detail, from my nightmare Google interview to my eventual offer from Businss Insider, and all the networking in between. Why? Because when I was going through the process, the only advice I could get was from people who already had a job and told me “everything will work out in the end.” You never hear about their struggle to get to the end, which, I feel, is the most helpful part.

So, college seniors: I’m unleashing my story spanning the most stressful 6 months of my life via a series of posts on my blog. Laugh at it, learn from it, and relate to it.  You’re in for one hell of a ride.