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8.3 Finding a Job

Job searching can be a job in itself. It takes spending time, undertaking market and company
research, organizing the information you find, preparing résumés and cover letters, going on
job interviews, writing thank-you letters for those interviews, and then repeating the pro-
cess—often many times—before you are hired. Don’t be discouraged if the ideal job does not
come along as quickly as you hope. Consider your job applications and interviews as ways of
practicing your written and oral presentations and improving your job-hunting skills. Luckily,
here at Ashford University, you have plenty of resources to help you along the path to a suc-
cessful job and the start of a satisfying career. Some of these resources are described in the
following sections.

Ashford Career Services

As an Ashford student or after you graduate and become one of our alumni, one of the most
valuable (and free) resources you have at your disposal is My Career, the Ashford University
Career and Professional Development Center. There you can access a wealth of information
and obtain one-on-one help from a Career Services specialist by e-mail or phone when you
need it. My Career contains resources that include career self-assessments, in addition to the
ones discussed in Module 7, and related career links discussed later in this module. The site
also includes resources for career exploration, résumé and cover letter writing, job search

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