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Job Hunters Seeking Prey

Alright, so you’ve made the move and are in your new turf. Great! Now, the next step to ensure that you won’t be knocked out of bounds (and run home penniless) you must make the bucks. Finding a job in a new city, OK any city, whether you’ve been there five days or five years, can be difficult, and tedious, and tiring, and stressful, and many more negative descriptions. However, one adjective that job seeking is not is impossible.

There are a few avenues to explore; all with their own pros and cons. Below is a short overview of becoming employed in an unemployable market. Moving to San Francisco when the state had an unemployment rate of 12% was daunting, but I managed to make ends meet - just like you will. 

While you’re in limbo trying to find a job, I suggest checking out gigs for odd (and small) jobs until something bigger breaks through. From my experience, that is how I primarily made ends work until I found a job I wanted.

In this section of the blog, I’ve included two components of the job seeking process:

1) “Getting-By-Gigs”, snapshots of gigs worked around the city (it’s hard to believe what people will pay you for).

2) “Job-Call-Strats”, different job seeking strategies to use to connect with employers, especially if you’re starting from scratch.