CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - “I felt like I was wanting to give up,” Emily Imhoff, University of Iowa graduate, said.

Imhoff said she spent months searching for a job after graduating from the University of Iowa for Business Administration last year.

“I started applying for jobs pretty much the month I was going to graduate just to kind of get a head start,” Imhoff said.

She said she applied to dozens of Human Resources jobs and rarely heard back.

When she did, it was a “no.”

“During that time I had lost my part-time job due to them being overstaffed and planning to have me moved on by then,” Imhoff said. “So, I actually went through about two months of unemployment.”

In June, she finally landed a job in transportation.

“At first I was a little sad that I wasn’t able to find a positi

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