Katie Couric 2012 Commencement, 第六部分

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I made coffee. I made Xeroxes. I also made friends with a lot people I still know today. On my first day, Sam Donaldson,then the White House correspondent, leapt on my desk and sang at the top of his lungs, “K-K-K Katie!!!”in front of the entire newsroom.

It was a little embarrassing, yet strangely exciting. Imagine if I hadn’t had the moxie to call Davey Newman!

But there’s another lesson in that story as well: Don’t look for jobs…look for people. The good news for the Class of 2012 is the job market HAS improved slightly and employers say they’ll be hiring more recent grads this year than they did in 2011. But the outlook is far from rosy, and it takes a lot more than a profile on Linked In…to get hooked up, in the old fashion sense of the term.

In fact, sometimes you can feel lost in cyberspace…like your resume has been swallowed up in some big black hole.

Despite all the online job boards and Monster dot coms of the world…most jobs are still found the old fashioned way…by meeting people and building relationships.

So followup with a phone call. Ask if you can come in, even for an informational interview. Do your homework…find out the name of an actual, live person who makes hiring decisions and email him or her. Do you risk looking like a stalker? Perhaps. But when you're competing against hundreds…even thousands…doing nothing will get you, well, nothing.

But here's another thing you need to know about risk: the end result may not be pretty. As Mick Jagger sang, “You can’t always get what you want.” That’s where the next “R” word comes in…Rejection.

There will be times in life when people are…how can I say this … just not that into you.

About a year into my first gig, I decided to leave ABC and head to a fledgling start-up known as CNN, or as my snobby network news colleagues called it, Chicken Noodle News. There I would work as a producer and get my first crack at reporting. At the White House no less, because that’s the perfect beat for someone with absolutely no experience.

I stayed up all night practicing in front of the mirror speaking slowly and deliverately into my hairbrush. It was VERY Jan Brady. My assignment was to preview the President's schedule for the day.

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