My friend Sana has a master’s degree in Fine Arts. For two years after graduation, she sent applications to private design studios, advertising agencies, and the occasional NGO. Some never replied. Some called her in, then offered a salary she couldn’t survive on. Then one afternoon she saw a Dawn newspaper ad for NCA Lahore … Read more
A few months ago, a cousin of mine who just finished his M.Phil in Animal Sciences was sitting at the kitchen table, frustrated, scrolling through job boards on his phone. “Yaar, I applied to three places last month and didn’t hear back from any of them,” he said. Then someone in the family mentioned that … Read more
A friend of mine spent three weeks obsessing over a GCU faculty job posting she’d seen in a Facebook group. Saved screenshots, told her whole family, even started rehearsing interview answers. Then, when she finally went to actually apply, she realized she’d been looking at a 2023 ad that someone had reshared without the date. … Read more