{"id":509,"date":"2015-08-06T14:20:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/?p=509"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:32:47","slug":"how-to-be-persistent-in-your-job-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/2015\/08\/06\/how-to-be-persistent-in-your-job-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be Persistent in Your Job Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for a job sucks. It just does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/pleasantly-persistent-5-rules-for-effectively-following-up\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"538\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/2015\/08\/06\/how-to-be-persistent-in-your-job-search\/roadrunner-coyote-a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/files\/2015\/08\/Roadrunner-Coyote-A.jpg?fit=600%2C348&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,348\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Roadrunner-Coyote-A\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/files\/2015\/08\/Roadrunner-Coyote-A.jpg?fit=300%2C174&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/files\/2015\/08\/Roadrunner-Coyote-A.jpg?fit=584%2C339&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-538 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/files\/2015\/08\/Roadrunner-Coyote-A.jpg?resize=510%2C300\" alt=\"Roadrunner-Coyote-A\" width=\"510\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It takes loads of time and energy and what do you get most of the time? Rejection.<\/p>\n<p>But, you&#8217;ll get that job you are searching for&#8211;it just takes persistence.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Muse<\/a> (our favorite free career website) have lots of tips to stick with your search and find success. Here&#8217;s a round-up of some of our favorite articles to keep you focused:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/how-to-follow-up-on-a-job-application-an-email-template\" target=\"_blank\">Free email templates on how to follow-up on a job application<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/pleasantly-persistent-5-rules-for-effectively-following-up\" target=\"_blank\">How to be pleasantly persistent (and not annoying)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/help-me-find-a-job-emails-to-send-to-your-network\" target=\"_blank\">Free email templates for asking your network to help find you a job<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/4-ways-to-make-writing-cover-letters-suck-less\" target=\"_blank\">4 ways to make cover letter writing suck less<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for a job sucks. It just does. It takes loads of time and energy and what do you get most of the time? Rejection. But, you&#8217;ll get that job you are searching for&#8211;it just takes persistence. Our friends at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/2015\/08\/06\/how-to-be-persistent-in-your-job-search\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[265456,265760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-jobs-and-grad-school","category-tips-advice-and-hacks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6o9cB-8d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/afterword\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}