ABOUT
If you
A) Are an undergraduate or graduate student with limited job prospects
B) Know or intuitively feel that you will be laid off
C) Have had your hours reduced at work to save the company money
D) Have been recently laid off
E) Are unemployed and job searching for months
then please take a moment, and share your experiences with your fellow job seekers. After all, we are in this together.
I started this blog to reach out to my fellow unemployees who are actively seeking for their next job. The first few blog posts are about my experiences and advice on how to weather this economic storm, but I hope it evolves into something bigger than just my journey. This is a community for all job seekers to connect with another, share their experiences, and commiserate. These are times of uncertainty and pervasive feelings of screwiness, but hey, we are all in this together.
In fact, the unemployment ship carries 12.5 million people and counting. Share your experiences searching for a job in this economy.
Educate, communicate, and empower each other to keep at it.
Who started these blogs?
I’m Arathi Dar, and I graduated from Emory University in Atlanta in 2003, with a dual major in Business and in English. Alot of people tell me that’s a weird combination. I used college to develop my business abilities and continued to foster my love for English, and after four years, I still can’t decide which major I enjoyed more. I’m lucky to have gone to a school that worked with me to pursue two intensive majors that seem, at first brush, at odds with each other.
When graduation day rolled around, much too quickly in my opinion, I accepted a position that allowed me to use both of my majors.
So, I started working as a marketing specialist for a Fortune 500 retail chain that promptly went bankrupt a few months after I joined (wayyyy before the economy followed suit-so, no apparent correlation here), but I kept my job for two years in an unstable corporate dynamic. After that, I switched to a privately company which manufactures beauty care products in approx. 100 countries. I worked with them as an associate brand manager, and loved my work. However, life throws everyone curve balls, and it threw me a big fat one. In fact, if you read the dedication in my e-book, you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, I needed take off major personal time, so I resigned from my job as an ABM, and pursued what I felt was a cathartic experience in writing. And it worked! The only thing is, while I was healing, the economy was tanking….so I’m back to searching for jobs. And so, I wrote a book & started a blog to connect with all of you who are facing similar challenges finding your ideal job.
When I’m not blogging/writing/job searching, I sleep. Well, actually I do have hobbies. I love to dance, and I’ve received eighteen years of formal training in classical Indian dance. I’m also a certified book worm. So, the next part is not really a ‘hobby’ of mine because I don’t do it often enough for it to be categorized as such, but I LOVE to travel, both domestically and internationally. In my lifetime, I’ve visited my mother country, India, nine times. I’ve been Amsterdam, Paris, and London. Most recently, I visited 4 countries in Asia, starting with India (of course!), and then went to Singapore, Thailand, and Japan. I returned home with even greater sense of wanderlust. Lastly, I like to sleep. I consider sleep a hobby- I do it almost every night. 
