It’s not exactly the most normal point to be searching for graduate jobs or trying to get into one or other internship or one of the graduate scheme that businesses offer. With finals just weeks away, most of your contemporaries will probably be adopting the attitude that thinking about the future is best left until after exams are over. That means many will postpone looking for two or three months (what with post-finals celebrations), which effectively means they will be well into the holidays before they start looking properly. By which time, it’s likely to be too late.
With some preparation and forward planning, this is somewhere you could get ahead. Finals are crucial, but life goes on afterwards – it’s just hard to remember that fact in the height of exam revision. However, when you get to the end of them the rest of life is going to greet you. You could spend the next few weeks doing something interesting that will set you up in your future career. On the other hand, you might end up spending the next three months killing time in a series of menial jobs you only do for the money – perhaps all for the sake of spending an hour or two in the Careers centre or on the web checking out which companies are offering positions you might like to try.
There’s plenty out there. Graduate jobs aren’t very easy to come by at the moment, thanks to the economy, but there are still lots of opportunities. Internships are fairly common, and offer a good way to get to know a bit about a company, what they do and how they treat their workers, without you signing your future away to them for the long term. (The other side of this is that they typically don’t pay so well. In practice, you will probably have to balance your interest in the company and desire for experience with the financial realities of life after university.)
The moral is: act soon. It’s never too early to try looking for graduate jobs or other options like graduate scheme. Even if you’re not searching for something that permanent – perhaps you’re not even a finalist – then an internship can get you a foot in the door and allow you to gain useful experience and contacts. Given the job market at the moment, a search at this stage – when many of your contemporaries won’t be able to take their eyes off exams – could surely pay huge dividends in the long run.
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