SECURE the Job Journey - Day 33
Plan for the Day
Respond to folks from LinkedIn and email
Prep for the Sustainability Analyst and GIS Tech calls this week
Prep questions for the networking calls today and later this week
Reach out to 5 folks each w/ the following in their job titles/headline
Data Science
Life Cycle Assessment
Scope 3
Carbon Accounting
Decarbonization
Energy Analyst
Apply to 5 jobs on the spready
What I Actually Executed
Tasks 1 & 4. Tbh, Task 1 was accomplished on a rolling basis because folks responded to me all throughout the day. With Task 4, I only got to about 10 folks (Data Science and LCA folks). I feel like I’m finding my specific people to reach out to. I’m finding with the networking part, I prefer searching for new folk by job titles/headlines rather than by company. (1) I feel like I come across a larger variety of people. (2) I don't always know the names of all the companies out there and I’ve already exhausted the list of companies I know off head. (3) Some companies are small and I don’t wanna come off cringe AF hitting up too many people from the same team. Maybe this reason is in my head… Idk, it makes sense to me lol.
Oh, as for Task 3, I tickled it a little. I had a networking call today and I prepped for that beforehand.
Results/Updates
There weren’t any new calls skedged, but I had a good call today and they connected me with more folks!
Reflection
I casually perused my old GA Tech email and I just so happened to stumble across an email about a virtual recruiting session happening THIS WEEK with Deloitte. I’m learning that there are pipelines where certain schools lead to employment opportunities at certain companies, so I’m on the journey to discover what companies GA Tech grads tend to spill into. I was recently told that Guidehouse be hiring a lot of GT alums. Let me UP my chances and be applying to companies that favor my school.
Today I allotted 3 hours this morning to job hunting (SECURING) tasks, but I got side-tracked trying to get my morning routine together. Idk what’s more important to honor: the time frame allotted for a task or the task (as in finishing it) itself. That’s been a bit of a strug bus for me right now.
I am really trying to streamline everything and it feels a bit awk. I’m pushing myself in different ways and it feels unnatural to me but I KNOW it’s gonna pay off. Kinda like Pilates (follow me lol). I feel like with these new strategies, I am mentally bending myself into new forms and working out mental muscles that I never knew I had. It burns a bit and feels totes uncomf, but it’s making me stonger.
