I had completely forgotten to post last night! I do suppose  it doesn’t matter since I applied to zero jobs last night.  N had stayed home since he got Canada Day off, and it felt like a weekend…which unfortunately started off with me sleeping in WAY too much (I aim to wake up around 7 or 8 to start my job hunting usually), but that didn’t happen. As a result, everything was shifted around, which includes visiting a new by town for the day. I don’t feel as bad since it was raining for most of the day yesterday.

What did I do instead of applying to jobs? Well, I did look for new job postings in my huge list of sites that I frequent (I should look into RSS feeding them), but I didn’t find anything that caught my eye just yet. I also spent some time looking at the HWI website and learning more about the institution itself. I’m getting more excited about it since I realize their new CEO was a former co-collaborator on my project. I had set goals to read about the research, find some publications to read in more detail and review my own thesis. I didn’t get to the publication part. Sometimes I set unrealistic goals to accomplish in one day. I want to feel good going into the phone interview.

So my goals for today:

1. Read up general scientific knowledge online about viruses (since I never took a virology course)

2. Pubmed some papers and read read read up on background and research (which will take a considerable amount of time)

Simple goals. If I have time:

3. Review my thesis and think about what they may ask me during the interview

On another note, I was curious as to how many positions do people apply to in a day? When you have to take into consideration finding the posting that you want and suits you, tailoring the resume/CV and written the targeted cover letter. I am trying to see if I’m not working efficiently enough. How many can you apply to in one day?