Like most college seniors and final semester graduate students, I'm on the job hunt. I would like to consider myself pretty marketable - I've had three health care PR/marketing internships (hospice, hospital and university infirmary), one in patent licensing PR/marketing and one in sports media relations. I also worked full-time for a year after college, always worked during college, and have been really involved on campus during grad school, mostly in a (go figure) public relations capacity. And I've got really good grades.
However, the job market is scary right now. A close relative just found out they would be laid off next month after a decade with the company. This petrifies me to no end. If 50-somethings who are excellent at their job and low-cost to keep on the payroll are being laid off, what are my chances at getting a job that is going to make me happy and pay enough to help me start cutting down on my $50,000+ in school loans.
I'm not sure how my "picky-ness" ranks in comparison to others in my shoes. I'm pretty sure that health care, specifically hospital (and even more specifically, pediatric hospital) communications, aka PR. So right now I'm only applying to health care organizations that have openings in my field, but I am pretty much applying to anywhere in the southern two-thirds of the country. I'll stop being picky about geographic location if nothing comes up in say, two months. After that, I'll have to settle for a different industry of PR - maybe non-profit, government or the arts. But I really don't want to work in an agency or corporate setting, but I will if that's what it comes down to...
Hire me!
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