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What advice can you give recent graduates?
The job market is brutal. It’s so important to just get a job—even something that’s only vaguely related to the industry—because you need to be learning. You want to make it your job for the first one¬-three years of your career to learn the most you can about the media industry no matter where you work. I also came out of school during a recession. I started out at The American Lawyer magazine. It wasn’t my passion to write about law, but I learned a lot and worked incredibly hard.

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I desperately want to find an entry-level job with a fashion magazine (assistant
job would be great). I was just wondering how much more difficult it would be
to find a job not being in NYC?

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