The fresh-off-the-plane-from-seminary girl’s guide to landing your first job— and succeeding at it
“I
t was around Pesach time of our seminary year when the job-search panic set in,” Dini Hoffman remembers. “My sem pals were frantically pacing up and down the stairs of our building, calling friends, neighbors, cousins, and old teachers, desperately searching for a job that would launch them into the real world.
“In my circles, we didn’t have much work experience outside of summer camp jobs, so we weren’t sure where to start when it was time to find that nine-to-five.
“Across the board, many grads enter the working world with little to no direction about how they can best utilize their talents. Outside of a painfully generic aptitude test I took in seminary — my result was ‘farmer,’ I kid you not! — I really didn’t receive much guidance on what professional path would lead to a fulfilling, sustainable career.”
Fast forward a few years. After some hard-earned experience, Dini and her friends finally worked their way up to positions that were a great fit professionally and personally. That’s when they decided to start an organization called Thrive Till Five, a Jewish girls’ guide to the working world.
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