🎉 Welcome to job searching! 🎉

Finding a job requires a sustained and focused effort... and some serious time-blocking. You got this. Take a deep breath, and then scroll on for three key ways to optimize your tools and your schedule in the Job Search.

🎥 This resource was covered in a Job Search presentation in March 2021. To review that presentation, recording here.

🛠 Set up your job search tools 🛠

Optimize to start and end your day with the Careers Homepage.

<aside> ⚙️ Remember! The Careers Homepage is your launching off point for more than just 10-10-10 — this is also where you will find new Hiring Partner jobs and resources to schedule interview or salary negotiation support.

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Careers Homepage

• [ ] Make sure the Careers Homepage is in a place where you can't ignore forget it

  • ⤵ Ways to do this

• [ ] Use your Job Tracker like a ticket board — at the end of every day, make sure you have no jobs left in Applied, all should be in Reached out.

Slack

• [ ] Create a Job Search section on your Slack sidebar. How-to here.
• [ ] Inside this section, place these channels and people and nothing else.
  • ⤵️ These channels

🍅 Get Comfortable with Time-Blocking 🍅

Parkinson's law shows up in a serious way post-graduation. Combat this with time-blocking.

<aside> ⏱️ Remember! Time-blocking requires you to STOP a task completely, even if you haven't yet completed it. The goal is to increase productivity and decrease burnout, so don't push tasks beyond their allotted time!

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Sample Schedules