Finally, I made it, the day before Christmas !!

After months of unemployment slowly draining my savings, after so many resumes sent over, so many cover letters written and proof-read, so many cold emails and cold calls, so many unanswered follow ups, after weeks perfecting my models and my pitches, after sleepless nights worrying I could never find a job again, I am very happy to announce that the day before Christmas I FINALLY sent my 400th application !!! Don’t give up guys!

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Nice job, but keep pushing hard until some offers start coming in.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

What are these 400 applications? Like surely, if the applications are legit openings or ‘warm contacts’, you’re doing something wrong.

Let’s say 5% if you’re applications progress to interview (that’s pretty conservative). That’s 20 interviews. Then if you have a 5% success rate there, you should have a job.

Are you counting cold emailing GS as an application??

 

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