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If I'm going to do the website I'll highlight my whole career, from fashionista, to graphic and web designer, to ceramic artist and cartoon artist, and finally nurse. I had planned on making the cat cartoon it's own blog, so I'll link to it there. I'm still working on how I want to do it. The cat really needs his own story, he's kind of his own Garfield but in a tuxedo with a goatee... and with his own dog. So I'm working on it in my spare time (I'm wrapped up in The Hunger Games books at the moment, little distracted ). When I get this done I'll share my link here since you all have been so helpful and nice! Again, Thanks!

Thanks, you guys are really helpful. I appreciate all the advice I'm getting. I am currently a graphic artist and posses web design skills and software as well, I guess it can't hurt to build my own website showing my other skills as well as highlighting my nursing potential and achievements. I'll work on that tomorrow instead of being sad about more rejection letters and the cartoon of my cat I'm drawing. :tku:

ya, you are probably right. I just wish she didn't get married to this guy that is of no relation to me until AFTER I got a job! Ya know? It's frustrating. I know the economy is bad, and my area is saturated with applicants, but students from my school with lower GPA's, less work and education, are getting jobs faster than me with less effort. I've always gotten a job offer after an interview, never have I had so much rejection in my life. I have excellent credentials and people skills. So it just seems like this person may be the cause. I think maybe it also helps that they know people and I'm a transplant from what is seen in this area as a "liberal" state. Would help to be a local I'm sure. Oh well, thanks for the input everyone, I really appreciate it.

I really do hate to bring it to anyone's attention if I don't have to. I think maybe casually in an interview I might bring up that I've been worried about people googling me and seeing another girl with my rare name and thinking it's me. I agree she has every right to freedom of speech, I fully support that, and her right to her beliefs. I really have no problem with what she says online and most of the time agree with things she says. However, where I live, 99% of the people will label her a nut job and thus me. It makes me look bad in the eyes of anyone who thinks it may be me in my area. One of my best friends is an attorney, I've asked her and she says there really is nothing I can do short of asking the girl to take some stuff down and kinda be quiet for a while on more controversial subjects. Which I did and got freaked out on. I would just change my last name, but I'm afraid it would hurt my father's feelings if it wasn't for marriage. Do you think making my own blog page with my picture and info about me explaining that she is not me and her views are not mine, although I support her right to have them, is a good idea?

I'm not sure if this is the problem with me being unable to get a job or not, I do have outstanding credentials and most of my class is employed now, most with no problem. There is a girl who recently married someone with my rare last name, she now has the same first and last name as me and is ALL OVER THE INTERNET! Not only that, if you google my name, it comes up on some pretty nutty websites and forums. She has a public blog and I emailed her to ask her to please take a few things down because I'm looking for a job and I think people are seeing it, thinking it's me. She flipped out, posted nasty things on her blog, made up things I said and added them to her blog and replied publicly to "me". I was very polite to her, trying to explain that I live in the bible belt and her posting all over wiccan, witchcraft, satanic sites and voicing her very liberal politics made it hard for me to get a job since people assume with a name like mine that it must be me. It's NOT me! I lead a very quiet conservative life. So if you google for me, you don't find anything with me, it's all this other girl, and it makes me look bad! I've always been taught to be careful what information you post online, so up until last year if you searched me, nothing came up. Today it's over 10 pages of things that have my name, but aren't me Suggestions? I don't know what to do! I'm very tolerant of what other people believe. But I really think this is affecting me at this point. I don't want to bring it up to potential employers because some may not even google me. But the ones that do, surely won't tell me they are going to or have to question if this was me or not.

I'm in the same boat, it's frustrating, seeing some of my classmates look for 2 weeks and get a job, yet I've applied to over 200+ jobs since July and only had 2 interviews. The state of TX wanted me to interview, but they wouldn't pay for me to fly out or do a phone interview first. It's just too expensive to not at least do a phone or internet interview first. Especially for a first interview. I have tons of education, high GPA, work experience in customer service, yet as of next year, I'll be unemployed as my current job is closing (non-nursing related). I'll be forced to take a job in retail management again, or worse waiting tables. From the horrible stories I've heard from some new grads getting in bad situations, I guess I'm glad to not take just anything as some classmates have. I'd hate to have moved across country only to have to quit because it was a risk to my license. I think as of today, I just gave up the search. I'm tired of not even being considered, competing for butt kissing competitions not based on actual qualifications, I'd rather wait tables for a living than deal with this rejection.

The job fair for these positions was weeks ago, they have pretty much already called everyone they wanted to interview and set that up. All offers will be given by Dec. 1st. for new grads. They have dates and deadlines they hire for new grads twice a year. It's highly competitive. The last job fair had around 300 people for about 15 jobs. NC is saturated with new graduate nurses.