Earlier this year, I moved to Australia to be with my husband.
Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar
The email arrived on a Monday morning. I was at the study desk, the one my husband built before I moved here, in a house that still feels more his than mine.As soon as I saw the email's subject line, I knew what was inside: a warm message letting me know that the team would be moving forward with another candidate.When I pressed for feedback, the recruiter explained that they had found someone with stronger experience in the Australian market. The rejection felt entirely logical, but also hard to absorb.The role was entry-level; meanwhile, I have 10 years of professional experience as a writer, editor, and communications specialist.I knew that moving countries would mean a grueling job hunt, but I didn't fully understand how disorienting it would be to have a decade of work suddenly feel like it doesn't quite count.It feels like I need local experience to land a job, but I need a job to gain local experience
Finding a job has been much tougher than I expected.
Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar
