Ready to give up on coop
Im a rising senior, international, did my first co-op in finance in NYC and this search has been hell. I managed to get 2 interviews, one straight up ghosted, the other was my dream job and i managed to get to the final round but was ultimately rejected. This was in mid to early March. Since then I've just been sending out applications and hearing nothing back, and with such little postings I've frankly just given up.
I've compromised so much in terms of pay and role that I'm literally applying to just about anything I can find and still hearing nothing back. I've tailored my resume a million times, and I know It's not lacking anything major because I've landed interviews at some really impressive companies - I've even had meetings with my co-op advisor where she literally straight up told me to stop obsessing over my resume and just apply more, etc etc. It feels like a bad timing thing, especially since I secured my first co-op by end of February.
I've already registered for fall classes and accepted defeat - plus an earlier ish graduation wouldn't be so bad... but still the process of just clinging onto hope and applying every day and so forth has surprisingly taken a much bigger toll on my mental health than I anticipated. I've gone from feeling a little behind and confused, to just completely despondent and hopeless, as if my future is just doomed. Not to be over dramatic, but if people with 3 co-ops can't get a job rn, i can't imagine how cooked i am being an international who couldn't even secure his second