A person searching for a job on their laptop
  • Devon has applied to over 200 jobs since February but hasn't had many interviews.
  • She's surprised at how long it's taking to get a job, given her work experience and master's degree.
  • She said she would have considered taking a class if she knew it would take so long to find work.

Devon, 48, started searching for work shortly after finding out in February that she was being laid off from her analyst job.

It's Devon's first extensive job search in years; she worked for her previous employer for 10 years but noted she did some internal interviews before being laid off.