Viceroy

mathlete Wrote:
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> Er.. CFA, CMA, MBA, JD, PEng (within 1 year) no
> job agree with the connections comment


Do you have any practical experience and what are you doing to market yourself?

Got my last two jobs with no connections in the middle of the worst recession ever.

My feeling is that you can't just throw up your hands and blame connections you have to try different things. Not disagreeing that connections are the way to most easily get a position, but there's plenty of other ways and you have to try them all. When I was out of work I would just ask the question to myself, "have I done everything I can do to get a job today". I eventually got a crappy job at a much lower salary, but that gave me the time to keep looking for the job I wanted. I got the first job off of a company website and the second from a recruiter.