Graduate Job Vacancies. What alternatives are there?

Graduate Job Vacancies

Graduate Job Vacancies. What alternatives are there?

So, what other choices are there?

Teach English abroad.

Train yourself for a specific career

Start a business

Teaching English abroad is an interesting career and most people just do it for a few years. You would need to do a TEFL or TESOL which costs around 1,000 and takes a month. This gives you the basic skills to survive in the classroom as a new teacher whilst your skills develop. There is a wide variety of countries you can go to, though do not imagine you could secure your first job in Spain or Italy! It is a great opportunity and you are lucky to have been born in an English-speaking country in this respect. Most of your colleagues will be graduates in the same situation as you.

Training yourself for a specifc career is a way of demonstrating to an employer that you are serious about a definite job, not just applying for anything at all without any related skills (which is a popular approach, but not exactly effective!) An example is I.T.. You can pick a specific role, such as a Java developer or Unix system administrator, having asked some I.T. recruitment agencies which are the skills most in demand. Then, you can train yourself both at home with books in front of your computer, learning the technology, and also go to cheaper college courses. After a few months, you can pump out hundreds of cvs to medium and large companies. If you are persistent, you will get interviews. About half of I.T. professionals are graduates.

Starting a business is also a real alternative to a traditional graduate job. It is not necessarily as expensive as you imagine and if you have a mentor to guide you, it is also not a major risk. Acquiring a franchise provides you with a mentor who has done it himself and can teach you how to build up your clients and profits. Whilst many franchises, such as McDonalds, are clearly beyond the financial reach of those seeking a graduate career, a small number of franchises are very reasonably priced. For example,http://www.nationwidecleaners.co.uk/franchise/franchise.htm is a management franchise business that you can start in which you would never undertake any cleaning yourself. It is possible to make good money and have a far more flexible lifestyle than a wage slave, as you control your own time! You do not have to ask permission to go to the toilet! The 1,999 fee can be recouped in a relatively short period of time, as you grow your own business and generate substantial profits.

There are sayings that "You become what you think about" or "Be careful what you think about mainly, as you will tend to get more of it." In the context of a graduate, that would mean if you focus on the herculean, epic struggle of obtaining a graduate job, assuming you will actually like it if and when you get it, you will concentrate on how hard it is. If you instead focus on alternative solutions, you will look for and find them.

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