My First (and Last) Job Fair

I have left the North Country for the suburbs of Chicago in hopes of better job prospects. So after a couple of weeks being here and a few contacts but nothing solid I went to a job fair. I felt very much out of my element. The majority of people there were business men that I heard saying they were with their companies for 13 years and then personnel was cut by 50% and they were let go and other stories to that effect. I realize that as a photographer with graphic design abilities that there probably wouldn't be many recruiters there for me but I went in hopes of something. But I got nothing. I know that the government has photographer and graphic design jobs so I went to a couple of the government agency booths and all they told me was to go to this website that I have already been checking frequently. And most of the representives were that way, they gave you a website to check and see if they had a job for you, a lot of them didn't even take resumes. I could have stayed home and gotten all this information from the web which is what I have been doing.

Sarah
photographer/recent graduate