Your application has been viewed

When I first joined LinkedIn, it was during a phase in my life where I felt I had to be part of every social networking site ever created. I quickly decided that LinkedIn was for old people and neglected to update my profile except for adding a picture and a description of my laughable work experience (I was only 19). 

More recently though, I've found LinkedIn to be the most valuable online tool for my job search. Based on my profile, it highlights job postings that I may be interested in and qualified for. There is nothing more frustrating than scouring a site for "recent graduate" positions, only to find that most require more than three years of experience in the industry. For the most part, LinkedIn has done well to provide me with a plethora of exciting entry-level options, two of which I applied for directly from the site. 

This leads me to an experience that I imagine is rather new to the job search environment. I received an email earlier this week that one of my applications has been viewed. LinkedIn assures me that this is a good sign; however, they can not guarantee I will get an actual response from the recruiter. This is only slightly frustrating. If someone from the company does not contact me, I can only wonder what my application was missing. I'd rather assume it simply got lost among a surplus of applications and was never viewed at all. Because in my mind, there's no way someone could read my beautifully crafted cover letter and not be aching to meet the sparkling girl who wrote it. So now I sit and wait.