Day Eight: The keyword is "networking"

Day eight?  You say. But you have been going on about this for nearly two weeks now. Yes. The thing about that is that I don't count weekends. Everyone needs a little down time to re-charge for another packed week of unemployment. To tell you the truth unemployment is a lot busier than I thought it would be. There are applications with deadlines, recruiters to meet, networking to be done.

This morning I had a meeting with Dominic Proctor of Mindshare. Dom is a lovely gentleman and an old friend of my Dad who was kind enough to give me some advice when I first left uni two years ago with naive aspirations of walking into a copywriting role with no experience but a trendy handbag full of dreams. Today, taking time out of a very busy schedule, we talked about all the experience I have gained, my love of social media ("Old fart's like me know nothing about that stuff") and generally where I should go next and who he might know to help me. A networking success.

I hardly had time to get over that caffeine buzz before I was off to a cafe around the corner to meet Max, a friend of a friend and current account executive at Dare Digital. Again the chat was only informal, with some sound job hunting advice taken on but probably most importantly, and e-mail address to send my CV where it might just get a little further than HR's over flowing inbox.

Talk about taking advantage of my spare time. I haven't even started on the new cushions I was going to hand sew.

Impressed by my own productivity, I'm going to give it to you in stats

Recruiters signed with:                                 4

Applications sent through recruiters:         5

Applications sent through job sites:            3

Industry professionals met for coffee:        3

Not bad for a week and a half I think.