Well I haven't been blogging as much as I should really consider I have a bit more free time on my hands than the average blogger (I assume) but I have been thinking. Yes, dangerously thinking of cunning schemes to get me employment or work experience. I feel the best thing about graduating when I did is that a) I am thinking more strategicaly about my life and b) at least I am at the start of my career. I could be a thirtysomething family man with a mortgage who has just been made redundant! So I suppose things could be alot worse.
But I read the papers (online ofcourse) and I realise that there are haeps of job cuts. Vodafone and ITV are recent annoucements but there are a host of former bankers or finance dudes out there who are unemployed. So I have compiled a list to help others survive:
1) Stay busy and organie your day so your not sat staring at a wall wishing you graduated a year or two earlier/later.
2) Research the industry or industries your trying to find work in (knowledge is power)
3) Stay positive negativity leads to nothing
4) Keep on the job hunt or try looking for work experience
5) If you apply for a job and get rejected get over it! Its part of life and use it to inspire you to achieve your goals.
6) Why not think of business ideas/opportunities
7) Keep it real......Im not sure how but you will know what this means
Basically, its slimpickings out there for us grads and competition is fierce (around 300,000 people graduate ever year) no matter if you want to work in advertising or finance just keep trying and keep an open mind always.
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