It's been five days since I last heard from the Placement Office, and like any other applicant, I'm excited to know more details. I found out from another blog the office is out until Monday...but still other bloggers were getting invites, clearance, etc., so I decided to reach out.
I figured that even though my file didn't call for additional experience, I'd try to get some anyway. I emailed my former supervisor at the Crystal Lake Park District Nature Center who manages park system natural resources to see if he would like help in any of the areas that were listed to improve competitiveness in protected areas management. He responded back in just 20 minutes with a positive response, and we discussed possible activities I could do. He seemed most excited about me initiating a GIS program to manage resources in park lands, particularly by assigning floristic quality indexes...I don't really know much about plants, but he certainly does.
I really don't have much experience on this level of resource management, so I'm excited for this opportunity to become more well-rounded.
Excitedly, I emailed the placement assistant who has been in contact with me but instantly got that 'out of office' reply - happy to know it for sure, but I'm somewhat disappointed in myself, if that makes sense, for not being more patient to just wait and see what placement decides.
I like this entry here... I have been worrying about my placement, its been a little over a week since I had contact with placement and I was starting to worry :( but what a relief finding out that they are out of office, that makes me feel so much better!
ReplyDeleteHey Joshua! I'm glad this post helped ease your mind. I was relieved to get that email too, but I wonder how long it'll take them to catch up on backlogged emails?
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