If you’re feeling a slight sense of dread about going home for the holidays, especially if it comes from not wanting to deal with the questions about \u201cwhat\u2019s next?\u201d from relatives, know that you\u2019re not alone. There are a lot of students in your shoes right now! Your best defense will be having a thorough response in your \u201carsenal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are graduating and have attended the Career Development Center’s Job Hunt Series, you can tell your curious relatives all about the job searching model you\u2019re using and how people in the communications industry utilize it to start their careers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you haven\u2019t taken the Job Hunt Series yet, you can tell your relatives that it\u2019s the first thing you\u2019ll be doing in spring semester and that this plan will jumpstart your job hunt so that you\u2019re well positioned come graduation. As this post is being published, there is one more of each of the two sessions that make up the series still available before the holidays – you can sign up at bit.ly\/cdcseminars<\/a>! We will have the full spring schedule for the Series and all our other seminars by the first day of spring classes, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parents\/guardians of seniors will also be receiving a letter from the Newhouse CDC very soon. Around this time each year, we send a letter to the parents of students who will be graduating to offer some insight on how a job search in the communications industry works. In the letter, we detail some of the \u201cquirks\u201d of hiring in communications and note how COVID has affected the job-hunting landscape. It will also tell parents how they can help you in this process. We have found that this letter tends to take a little pressure off students (parents are happiest when they feel informed!). Grad students who would like a copy of the letter are welcome to email nhcdc@syr.edu and we\u2019ll send you a copy to share with your family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re NOT graduating but still dreading the career questions, having a plan is still your best response. If you\u2019re hoping to intern, prepare an answer about the types of companies you\u2019re interested in and what types of skills you want to build. Sounding focused and strategic will instill confidence in even the nosiest relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In short, the best response to any of the, \u201cwhat\u2019s your plan?\u201d questions is one that shows you know what you\u2019re up against and that you\u2019ve planned accordingly. If you have questions about any of this or want to touch base on your own \u201cplan of attack,\u201d don\u2019t hesitate to reach out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’re feeling a slight sense of dread about going home for the holidays, especially if it comes from not wanting to deal with the questions about \u201cwhat\u2019s next?\u201d from relatives, know that you\u2019re not alone. There are a lot of students in your shoes right now! Your best defense will be having a thorough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[48,14,15,19,31,18,45],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3119,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.newhouse.syr.edu\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}