Success! Today I was officially hired by a lovely book PR firm as their new “junior publicist.” Honestly, I couldn’t ask for a better opportunity. I know I’m going to learn a lot from them and I’m super excited to start.
So I want to recap: Over the past month and a half I’ve done some “out-of-the-box” things to find work: advertisements, Twitter, blogging, Facebook, networking groups etc etc. If you take out the time I spent messing around after graduation and really only going at this half-assed, it took me a month and a half to find a pretty awesome job. Lesson? You can’t get a job by just clicking “apply” on every publisher’s website. HR is there for a reason, but I don’t know one person who’s actually gotten a job the old fashioned way. Maybe every human resources person will hate me for saying this, but it’s true.
However, it does make for an interesting story. My campaign actually made me consider a career I hadn’t thought of before: book PR. So all in all a pretty successful endeavor. However, as we’ve learned, getting a job in publishing is pretty (scratch that, enormously) difficult. So even though I have a job now, will continue to keep the blog up in the hopes other people can learn from my experiences, making your job hunt a little less stressful…
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