When I graduated from college I began learning over the next year and a half of my life lessons that were never taught to me in school. Nobody ever took care to teach us how to find a job in today's market - especially with the economy the way it is. When things are booming you don't have to even try but in today's world your sense of awareness of how to find a job and the processes involved in making yourself stand out is paramount to your success.

The first things you need to do are mental. Mentally fortifying yourself against rejection and also filling your time up with a methodical, productive search. The job search is very difficult at times and getting down in the dumps and seeing no solution is a danger if you aren't planning your attack.

Once you get a little more stable you have to treat the journey on how to find a job like a job itself. I had to log onto my computer every day as if I WAS going to work and just knocked out online applications and researched upcoming fairs throughout my "workday".