{"id":30,"date":"2022-04-22T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/?p=30"},"modified":"2022-04-22T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T04:11:09","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/2022\/04\/22\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You know the saying &#8220;the world works in mysterious ways&#8221;? Well, I whole heartedly believe it. Just the other night, after spending all day working on my project, I was casually browsing job postings on LinkedIn when my sister called. Over the last several months I have been slowly starting my job search and while talking to my sister I was telling her how crazy the tech industry is in the Bay Area. We were both in shock as I was reading off the applicant stats to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Software Engineer (New Grad\/Early Career) posted 4 days ago. 146 applicants. 52% of the applicants have a bachelors degree. 44% of the applicants have a masters degree&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember saying to her &#8220;I&#8217;m going to have to hit every key word they are looking for in order for anyone to even SEE my resume.&#8221; We both laughed, mine a lot more nervous than hers. I wasn&#8217;t necessarily feeling discouraged. I just knew that at that moment, I wasn&#8217;t prepared to put the effort into looking for a job that it&#8217;s likely going to require. I want to finish this last term strong and make a project that I am proud of. The job will hopefully come after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then this morning as I was skimming through my emails I saw an email for a company I had applied to a few weeks back and they wanted to set up an interview.  It&#8217;s for an entry level job at a smaller company just outside the Bay Area. It&#8217;s exactly what I have been looking for. Somewhere that I can get some experience under my belt without all the pressures of a big company. I reread the email a few times just to be sure it wasn&#8217;t a weirdly specific spam email. Turns out it wasn&#8217;t and I&#8217;m set to chat with them about it next week. And even if it ends up just being an interview, I&#8217;ll still get to walk away with more experience than I have today. It feels like progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5388\/files\/2022\/04\/gk0cn2ye1hiauon1ru2f.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5388\/files\/2022\/04\/gk0cn2ye1hiauon1ru2f.jpg 564w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/5388\/files\/2022\/04\/gk0cn2ye1hiauon1ru2f-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know the saying &#8220;the world works in mysterious ways&#8221;? Well, I whole heartedly believe it. Just the other night, after spending all day working on my project, I was casually browsing job postings on LinkedIn when my sister called. Over the last several months I have been slowly starting my job search and while &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/2022\/04\/22\/progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bitbybit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}