Moving to a new city and look for a job after you have finished university is a big step. It takes time and a lot of consistency. But let me help you with sharing my story and how I made it.

I will start by being my usual self and being honest with you.

It is freaking hard.

Finding a job – not to mention the job of your dreams – is difficult. But let’s not despair and let’s start from the beginning.

How to move to a new city and find a job after university

How to Find a Job after university

You have finished your 3-4-5 years of university or college. You feel the world in your hands but in reality, it’s just an itchy mosquito bite. So you decide to move to a new place to find your dream job. Yes, I’m a hopeless dreamer.

Everything is roses and violets. You see the world coloured in pink. And you actually can continue to this standard without making my mistakes. Oh and yes, bear in mind that you have to work incredibly hard.

My experience with moving to a new city & looking for a job

I come from the countryside and I moved to Milan because it was the closest fashion capital. I moved in with one of my best friends, we’ve known each other for years now and a friend of hers. So it’s me, her and him.

First Mistake

Never ever go to share a flat with people you don’t know. I mean, most of the time it works, but if the house is small, simply it doesn’t. At the beginning it was okay, I mean we didn’t know each other so we tried to be civilized, but after a few months, things came up and you cannot be indifferent, at least I couldn’t.

My first verbal fight. This happened because apparently, I became the cleaning lady (it was a breaking point meaning the house was gross!)

Tips — When you move in with other people, be super sure of them, or at least try to be in 4 or more so that if you argue with one, there are others who can try to make peace.

Second Mistake

Both of them are still at uni, meaning they have to study, pass exams, so on. They already have a life in Milan. I haven’t. I thought that we would have hung out together but this never happened because they were always busy. Instead, I was always wandering around, sending CVs, exploring this new town, try to settle down basically.

Our lives were and are very different. Guys, I stayed every weekend from the first month by myself in an unknown city, with no friends and it was December. And I love Christmas…I was a little bit down. 

Tips — So, it would be better if you are able to be in a house with people at your same pace, or with a variety of people with different backgrounds. But not 2 uni students and 1 looking for a job.  

Plus, the fashion world is such a nightmare to enter but eventually, I found an internship for only two weeks at Diane Von Furstenberg showroom. And it was amazing, great people and I finally meet someone of my age, with my same dilemmas.

Then, the uncertainty of finding a longer job or better internship in the field I like overwhelmed me. In addition, I started to miss my friends home and my American friends. This was February.

Third Mistake

Before moving out, be sure to have already found a paid or un-paid job/internship/stage. I obviously did the opposite. In the time of searching you will get bored and stressed out, plus if your flatmates don’t support you but they keep judge every move you make, it will get really tough to keep it through.

Tips — simply find a job before moving out, so you will be able to know new people, feeling useful and inside a group.

How To Successfully Find a Job

Except for this, even with my experience certainty not idyllic (all my US college friends are so envious of me, being done but I am more scared than happy, it really means work it out by yourself) and with really bad moments (I stopped by the street cold sweating and not able to breathe a several times) I MADE IT.  

After thousands of bad interviews, I got accepted for a 3+3 or 6 months internship at Versace. And this happened when my mind was already planning my summer back home. Change of plan. I will stay here in Milan.

Well, this also means I have to find a new place to stay! ahah! But with this experience I will then be able to go back to the US and before that, trying and experience the UK, because THAT is my biggest dream. I have to see if it is exactly what I want or just a fantasy.  

But with this experience I will then be able to go back to the US and before that, trying and experience the UK, because THAT is my biggest dream. I have to see if it is exactly what I want or just a fantasy.  

So I have to thank my friends back home (Vale, Cami, Bert, Eli, Marti) and some of my international one (Irene, Jacob, Shirel) for supporting me no matter what, as real friends can do. And thanks to the Youtube world (Joe Sugg, Ben Brown, Louis Cole, Zoe Sugg, Tyler Oakley, Jack&Finn) for their inspiring words, to never stop doing what you’re passionate about even if everything goes wrong, you should go on. 

So that is the moral of this story. Never surrender, keep following your dreams because it is always worth it. I know that you’ve heard this since primary school but, trust me, that when you’ll be on your own, it won’t be that easy.