One Cover Letter at a Time.
If you have ever written a cover letter, you know the care you must give to the detail to tailor each to fit the needs or to whom the cover letter is directed to. Well, my son prepared at least 25 or so cover letters this past spring while he was applying to upwards of 30 summer internship positions that were relevant to a mechanical engineering student. He was blessed to have the experience of being interviewed by two.
I helped him with some of the cover letters since he had such limited time to get tings done battling the tide of assignments and projects at the same time. I learned so much about various internship job descriptions that are out there enticing engineering students. I also learned what types of job descriptions really lit up my son's face. There are many job duties that many of these job descriptions listed, including things that are general to many and others that are very specific.
After a long arduous period of applying and applying for more and writing and writing for more, he received no-go from the two interviews. We were actually not quite surprised due to some things about him that we know, including his speech impediment as a primary reason! This was one of the hardest thing for him to experience over the course of months. I can picture that he likely felt so inadequate and he likely was very scared at every phone visit. But he at least tried.
He is now working for an engineering professor for a grant research project producing work that is needed to develop a model using one of the engineering design software called Solidworks. While he is also taking a few courses this summer, he is beaming that he has a job where he can use something he has learned in the last three years of college education for a real world problem. He appears to be excited to be useful.
After many cover letters and applying for jobs literally all over the country including WA, AZ, TX, FL, ND, IL, TN, CA, SD, OR, and more, he learned that job search itself is a tough job that requires endurance and commitment, but he also learned that his job was carved out for him here in Ruston for this particular summer. Yes, we are all humbled to see how things turned out. Life is unpredictable but he was not wandering without aim or a guide. I know he learned so much from this experience of "making the efforts", "Sticking to the plan", "Pushing forward" and more,,,,,,,,,,through the act of applying for any and every job he could find, ... of course, with one cover letter at a time.
I helped him with some of the cover letters since he had such limited time to get tings done battling the tide of assignments and projects at the same time. I learned so much about various internship job descriptions that are out there enticing engineering students. I also learned what types of job descriptions really lit up my son's face. There are many job duties that many of these job descriptions listed, including things that are general to many and others that are very specific.
After a long arduous period of applying and applying for more and writing and writing for more, he received no-go from the two interviews. We were actually not quite surprised due to some things about him that we know, including his speech impediment as a primary reason! This was one of the hardest thing for him to experience over the course of months. I can picture that he likely felt so inadequate and he likely was very scared at every phone visit. But he at least tried.
He is now working for an engineering professor for a grant research project producing work that is needed to develop a model using one of the engineering design software called Solidworks. While he is also taking a few courses this summer, he is beaming that he has a job where he can use something he has learned in the last three years of college education for a real world problem. He appears to be excited to be useful.
After many cover letters and applying for jobs literally all over the country including WA, AZ, TX, FL, ND, IL, TN, CA, SD, OR, and more, he learned that job search itself is a tough job that requires endurance and commitment, but he also learned that his job was carved out for him here in Ruston for this particular summer. Yes, we are all humbled to see how things turned out. Life is unpredictable but he was not wandering without aim or a guide. I know he learned so much from this experience of "making the efforts", "Sticking to the plan", "Pushing forward" and more,,,,,,,,,,through the act of applying for any and every job he could find, ... of course, with one cover letter at a time.
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