It is all too easy nowadays for you as a recent graduate to just think about getting any job and hoping that you may enjoy it and stay in employment long enough to pay off your student loan.
However if you have not already been to the career advice service to ask for help then you may find yourself confused and frustrated by the job market when you start to apply for vacancies.
What Do You Enjoy?
It will help you enormously to think about your career path before actually applying for jobs. First of all what do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Is this something that you could earn a living from? Job satisfaction is sometimes more important in the long run than the starting salary so you need to think carefully before just taking the first job that comes along as you could end up very unhappy working in a job you hate.
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When considering a new career it is helpful if you can find out as much as you can about it before applying, as you may like the idea of the job title, but after investigation find that it is not what you want to do for the rest of your life.
What Are You Good At?
Another aspect to consider is whether you are naturally good at a particular skill or pastime. Some young people are good negotiators in their peer group for example which can be very useful in a sales or junior management position.
The main thing to remember when embarking on your new career is that it is your life not anyone else’s and you need to make the correct decisions so that you enjoy your work and lead a happy and fulfilling life.
Unique Selling Point
Once you have completed your degree and start to look for a job, you will soon realise that the competition is extremely high. You need a unique selling point (USP) that makes you stand out from the crowd.
Let say you want to be an accountant for example, the best way to find out the real state of the market and meet influential people in that field is to go out and interview some local accountants in your location. Contact them by phone or email and explain to them that you are conducting research in order to try and secure a job and would like to come to their office and produce a video interview with them about their job. Explain that the whole process will only take 15 Min’s and you will conduct the interview at their convenience.
Once the interview is complete you can upload it onto pods4jobs.com and receive a certificate of achievement. Then when you do attend your next interview you will have a USP as you will be able to quote accountants you have met and discuss your interviews with the interview panel. This will show that you have been proactive in your approach and shows that you have the drive and ambition to succeed.
The key is to find out as much as you can about careers and one great place to do that is at this Careers Advice Service where you can access thousands of job podcasts across many different career sectors.
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