{"id":2162,"date":"2018-01-31T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2018-01-31T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:22:29","slug":"be-open-to-what-comes-your-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/be-open-to-what-comes-your-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Open To What Comes Your Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2163\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01.png 800w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-768x240.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-100x31.png 100w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-150x47.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-200x63.png 200w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-450x141.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/files\/2018\/01\/jesse_cannon_v1-02-01-600x188.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to be kind to everyone you meet and to be open to opportunities\u2014even ones that don\u2019t initially seem like something that exactly fits in with your career goals,&#8221;\u00a0reflects Jesse Cannon (&#8217;17). &#8220;It\u2019s good to have a focus, but it\u2019s okay to branch out. \u201d Jesse is currently a stage technician at Walt Disney World. She began working full-time just two weeks ago, after completing an internship she landed by networking with contacts her UVM professor introduced her to.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on how she got to where she is, Jesse notes attending job fairs, conferences and job prep events (like <a href=\"http:\/\/email.mail.joinhandshake.com\/c\/eJxljk1uwyAQRk8Du1rDr_GCRZTEF-gBLAykJjUQGZxFT18cVVWlSrMYvW_e6HNaKTsrHDQFooDQAQgIDh3p4AoXIVl_Pl9HyvsT4hBNWLt7DmkxyZXFfPrO5ogX3duZksEM7AbAGJ0BJFXMy9lxIeVN4FUvtT4KYidExzb7M_5_1Lh_-lRLW4RiPUFs3GucSt436xG7RFPKdJTwG6LyiKJ3YY8t8gf-gdbEhwkfqeHik5te2usAbzo5X7-az-Ho4N2Oq-Zcvb3bJecV_xb6Y03BaSIBuPgGa4dhng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gear Up for Graduation<\/a>) as key stepping stones.\u00a0\u201cIt was really great to talk to everyone at Gear Up. I got some valuable feedback on presentation, learned about the job search process and really valued having my resume looked at by the resume doctors.\u201d\u00a0 Additionally, Jesse notes, &#8220;the LinkedIn and LGBTQA booths at Gear Up were both extremely helpful in approaching the process from the context of the real world outside of the college bubble.\u00a0Definitely attend if you can, I\u2019m so glad I went.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important to be kind to everyone you meet and to be open to opportunities\u2014even ones that don\u2019t initially seem like something that exactly fits in with your career goals,&#8221;\u00a0reflects Jesse Cannon (&#8217;17). &#8220;It\u2019s good to have a focus, but it\u2019s okay to branch out. \u201d Jesse is currently a stage technician at Walt Disney &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/be-open-to-what-comes-your-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be Open To What Comes Your Way!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127021,129430,6901,1],"tags":[131420],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-exploration","category-interviewing","category-networking","category-uncategorized","tag-career","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"career","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/author\/career\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/career-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}