The Nonacademic Job Search for Graduate Students
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Searching for jobs outside the academy is often challenging to graduate students. Because of today's tight economy, job seekers from all disciplines must expend extra effort to land a job. Graduate students should not despair--even in the tough times, there are always job vacancies, since organizations are constantly starting up, expanding, or replacing workers. The fact that you don't know about these jobs only means that they have not been advertised or that you're not using the right method to find them.
There is no magic formula for finding a job. A variety of techniques and strategies may be employed, and success varies with the individual. This document discusses a variety of techniques that should enhance your job search and highlights the practices that are most effective. The more intensive and diversified your job search is, and the smarter you are about using these techniques to your best advantage, the more likely you are to find golden opportunities.
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