Graduated 6 months ago and still nothing

[u/argrillo529]

I graduated with my BS in May and have been looking since last November, and so far I’ve gotten 4 interviews and tons of rejections. I’m ideally looking for anything R&D in cosmetics, personal care, or food industries, and my previous internship experience was assisting a local brewmaster with brewing, measurements, formula keeping, so it’s not as though the skills aren’t transferrable. Also, I applied to a job last November at a large North American consumer products company and didn’t get an interview. Last week, I decided to check their website again for anything else that happened to open up, and I see the same job (title and description identical) saying it was posted 2 weeks ago, and when I go to apply, the system says I cannot because I “have already applied to this job” from when I did in November.

Just saying I’m a little frustrated at: 1) colleges making it seem like a guarantee that you’ll have a job lined up immediately after graduation 2) companies seeming like they’re accepting applications but not seeming to fill them and making you waste time tweaking a resumé just for an AI to read it before a human does

[u/jesset0m]

Maybe widen your net and get ANY ChemE job. It's gets significantly easier to switch to what you want after that

[u/FetusTwister3000 → u/jesset0m]

Yeah I would agree with this. Good on you OP for having a sense of direction in your career but you can’t always start off in the middle of the race. You have to get yourself set first and that may mean broadening your job search to anything in the industry you’re looking to get into and then switching to R&D later. If you still can’t find something you just have to take whatever you can find because it’ll start to look bad if you have a 9 month gap and become increasingly difficult to find a job