On May 4th, we had James (Jimmy) Levin who is the founder of Job Search Therapy, guest speak in class. He is a professional career coach, who has set out to help people prepare them an interview for either an internship or a job opening, what to say and how to follow up with the company. For almost 30 years, he was a well known and established photographer who has had his work published in over 300 books and across many ad campaigns. His photography was aimed more towards lifestyle and children, which lead him to work with companies like Mattel and even ToysRUs. In 2007, he needed to have an eye surgery that resulted in him not being able to photograph like he had used to, so it pushed him to reinvent himself. He founded Job Search Therapy in order to use his knowledge of the business and the real world, to help place people with interviews at companies, where he felt their skills could grow. During his lecture, he spoke a lot about the interview process and how to make sure you stuck in the hiring manager’s mind; how to follow up afterwards with a thank you letter that really tied together the whole process. He spoke about researching the company and even people within the company, which would give you a higher advantage because you aren’t just going in their blind. This part of his lecture really stuck in my head since I will be graduating in a few weeks and I’ll be going through this soon enough. This lecture really gave me insight into how to prepare and land the job that you really want, so I will be using a lot of his notes and comments in the future.