Young Lady Shares How She Landed A Job At CNN In Year 2019, Says She’s Thankful For How Much She Has Grown

A young smart and vibrant lady named Anita Patrick has shared how she got a job at CNN .

Anita applied for the job when she first saw the job post on Instagram, she had no idea about the job type but applied and got her first email acknowledging her application and saw that it was from CNN, surprisingly she thought it was spam.

Anita later got job and she was overwhelmed. Celebrating how much she has grown in her career, she shared the story on her LinkedIn platform.

Read her post below:

I’ve been looking at where I was mentally when I started my job at CNN in 2019, and I’m thankful for how much I have grown.

Funny story, the journey began on what seemed like a random evening. I was scrolling on Instagram when I came across a job post on Amin A.’s TribeCalledENA page.

It didn’t name the company, but that was the least of my worries because I was already consumed with a mental debate wondering whether I fit the bill or not. If you guessed that I decided against applying, you are right.

However, at the time, I had just come across the notion that most women can be 80% qualified for a job but pass it up because they don’t meet 20% of the requirements.

I badly wanted to unlearn that, so I went back to the post. I prepped my CV, did some research, forced myself to be honest about what drives me, what I am “bringing to the table,” and poured it all out in a cover letter.

When I got the first email acknowledging my application and saw that it was from CNN, I thought it was spam.

When I got the job, I fought the wildest imposter syndrome ever. I was in over my head trying to be perfect, second-guessing everything, setting a very high bar, and falling terribly short of it.

I couldn’t even tell a lot of people about my work because I was so sure they would judge it as harshly or worse than I did.

I am glad I had supportive people around me, or I would have self-sabotaged, and for what? One of the best advice I got from my boss was to not shrink or let perfection be the enemy of good. That stayed with me.

I am more comfortable and confident in my “work skin” now, like a solid 79.89% haha! I’m okay with knowing I may not get everything right the first time or the fifth time, but I will never not show up and give it my all until I get it right.

I am putting this out here as a public self-reminder and praying for the best as I figure out the next step of my career.

Source: Anita Patrick|LinkedIn

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