| Now I’m approaching the end of my 1st
semester as a 2nd year, I can’t help but notice all the encouraging and
increasingly persuasive messages about being prepared for this time
next year; the time when the reality of venturing into the big wide
world will be starting to hit home, and I will be applying for a
graduate job (deep breaths everyone.)
I think these days, with the pressure of all the fine competition
out there, the temptation to fire out as many CV’s and application
forms as possible is all too apparent. I suppose it does make some kind
of logical sense… the more jobs I apply for the more chance I’ll have
of getting offered one right? True; but if using these tactics there is
also a pretty high chance you’ll end up in a dead end job where you’re
unhappy and where you’re doing something that is irrelevant in terms of
your long term careers plans.
This got me thinking about a bit of advice passed on to us by the
IBM recruitment lady who been has been knocking around campus this week
hoping to snare herself a hot new graduate workforce.
Before you go ahead all guns blazing and send your generic CV’s
every which way, why not try writing a shopping list- and I don’t mean
for a new confidence boosting wardrobe. I mean a job shopping list.
What do you actually want out of your graduate job???
1. To have variety?
2. Flexibility?
3. To work in a certain city/ part of the world?
4. Creative freedom?
5. Your own office?
6. etc…
Everyone knows how satisfying it can be to cross things off a list. So why not challenge yourself? |
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