jobs anyone?
Submitted by: philos anthros
22 July 2008 - 7:33pm
I'm looking for work (urban design preferably) in the Philadelphia region (I just grad'd from Penn) and it has been freakin brutal out there. So much so, that I have begun looking for work in restaurants just to pay the bills! My quesion is, is it slow everywhere, or just here...or am I really just that unemployable. Ugh..job hunting is quite a cruel and demeaning process.
It's hard to move b/c I'm married and my wife has a job here that she enjoys. I, on the other hand, have really come to a point where I just need to start working. I'm ready to split w. my wife for a few months and take a job outside of the region.
Any and all job hunting tips are appreciated...exactly where are all the jobs!! international, domestic and intergalactic!!!
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Go South
I was in the same boat in 2006-2007. I was in Indiana finishing up my Master's in Planning and looking for work. I got very little feedback from the Northeast. Naturally, I got my more responses in the Midwest but there seems to be a lot activity in the South (North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Florida) and to a lesser extent out West (Arizona). I ended up in Georgia after having a couple of job interviews down there. All of my siblings (5 of us total) ended up living in the South because there weren't any decent jobs available back home.
It took me a little over a year to get a planning related job but I could have gotten one earlier if I hadn't turned down a couple of jobs thinking I could do better. I was single and willing to move just about anywhere. I was so hard up I was willing to go to Iraq and do some military base facility planning.
You probably have already seen these websites (and Planetizen) but they have a lot of jobs. State planning associations can be useful, too.
http://www.cyburbia.org/
http://www.planning.org/
From what I understand, its
From what I understand, its hard getting a job anywhere. My boss gets hundreds of resumes whenever he posts a new ad. My guess is that sometimes good people get lost in the fray.
I'm really not sure where the jobs are, because I'd assume there would be plenty of planning work within Philadelphia region. Try New York? It's only 70 miles northeast (I think) and there should be a glut of work.
Good luck!