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You just graduated from college. ¡Congratulations!
Now you've got a ridiculously expensive piece of paper that says you are good at something.
So you start your job search.
Expectations: You spent countless nights without sleep and thousands of dollars on your degree, finding a job must not be hard at all.
Reality: You don't know a thing about job hunting.
You start sending resumes and cover letters.
Expectations: You’ll receive tons of responses craving for an interview with you.
Reality: Your wake up every day to find your e-mail inbox empty.
Expectations: Your kickass CV full of academic achievements will blow the HR guy’s mind.
Reality: They'll hate it because you have no real experience.
Expectations: your networking skills will help you find a job. You made pretty awesome contacts in college.
Reality: Most of them don't remeber you.
You get nothing so you start to look for some options abroad.
Expectations: You'll move to a fancy European capital.
Reality: You only receive responses from places not even google knows.
You finally get an interview and you start discussing about salary
Expectation: They'll offer you tons of money to work with them.
Reality: A lot of internships for recent graduates are unpaid.
They ask you if you are OK having no benefits, medical insurance or legal contract
Expectations: You reject those inhuman conditions.
Reality: You accept all of them because you are desperate.
You finish the entire selection process and you wonder whether you make it or not.
Expectations: They'll welcome you with open arms.
Reality: Nope.
You finally get a job!
Expectations: It's the most marvelous job in the entire world .
Reality: You hate it and you have to start the entire process all over again.
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