How one woman landed at NPR after a grueling two-year job search
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Melayne Cohen spent two years looking for full-time work in media before finally landing at NPR. She shares what helped her break through.
This story originally appeared in La Fronde’s Sept. 8 newsletter. If you’ve read La Fronde long enough, you already know: this job market is not for the weak. I’ve profiled women who were so fed up with the job market that they gave up the search altogether. But there’s another side to the story — a more hopeful one. Today, I’m launching a series about what happens when you don’t stop looking. The Way Back is a special multi-part feature where I talk with women who spent several years looking for another media job before landing one. You hear horror stories all the time about people who…
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