First thing I did was work out a weekly plan. Now that I know my activities and what I'll be spending my time doing, I was able to decide how I will spread these throughout the week so my workload stays balanced.

Second thing I did was create a list of all the possible things I could search for while looking for jobs. I had to think about relatable roles and make my searches much less specific. Before planning this all out I was keeping my searches very limited... 'project management apprenticeship', 'business analyst'. But now I have a strong variety of roles I can search for that still relate back to my main focus of project management. This was the list I came up with, which I'll use from now on to help me look for jobs:

• project management apprenticeship
• project apprenticeship
• management apprenticeship
• business analyst apprenticeship
• business apprenticeship
• coordinator apprenticeship
• project scheduler apprenticeship
• assistent project
• manager apprenticeship
• project coordinator apprenticeship
• software manager apprenticeship
• project administrator apprenticeship
• project planner apprenticeship
• project controller apprenticeship
• document controller apprenticeship
• agile apprenticeship
• scrum apprenticeship
• leadership apprenticeship
  

Then I went onto LinkedIn to build up my contacts. I now have over 200, and plan to begin contacting a few of these people tomorrow.

The next thing was to start searching. I started on LinkedIn and did about an hour of searching. Then I looked on Indeed for an hour and found a few jobs which I felt were what I was looking for. I plan to apply to these tomorrow.

I breifly looked into agencies and found one called 'Robert Half UK' which I would like to look at in more detail.

I have also applied to two jobs:

Associate Project Management Apprentice - Level 4 – Barrington Court project (National Trust)

Project Management Apprenticeship (Professional Apprenticeships)

I used NoteJoy to write out thought through applications. It allows me to easily make changes to my applications. While applying to these jobs, I did plenty of research so I knew what I was talking about. I looked in all areas of their personal website to help me with this. I also looked at any acheivements or challenges that they had experienced so that I could reference them in my application. I decided to include a cover letter for one of these applications to support it.

The last thing I did today was create a website post to show my personal motivation and how I planned my job searching.