As the semester wraps up and finals loom in the distance, I decided that my life wasn’t busy enough and recently began my quest to secure a post-undergraduate future in this (oh how do I put it nicely…) “volatile” job market (read: FUBAR).

While some of my peers are, and rightfully so, incredibly stressed out about searching for jobs, I’ve actually found it to be a pretty interesting process. I think discovering, in the next few weeks/months, where I will be and what I will do there is inherently exciting.

It helps that I have a sense of what I want to do in the next few years, but ultimately am very open to any opportunity; moreover, I really have no overwhelming preference regarding location (Be a lion tamer at a zoo in Tashkent, Uzbekistan? Yes, please!).

Yet, there are minor speed bumps.

For example, browsing through various job search resources such as PennLink, Idealist.org, and SimplyHired.com, I’ve noticed the trend that job descriptions are increasingly becoming more and more complicated.

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