Life after Uni – What Next?

Try this Poll

Answer TRUE or FALSE

You know what you can do with your degree.

You know the kind of jobs that will suit you.

You know what your strengths are.

You have identified a particular first graduate job that you will go for.

You don’t want to think about it.

You are open to ideas in terms of graduate jobs.

You are going to apply for loads of different jobs and hope something will work out right.

You have no clue what you can do after your degree.

You want to take a gap year to work out what to do for your career.

You know that you need to work on your CV.

The whole hullaballoo of doing graduate applications bores/terrifies (insert a word here) you.

You wonder whether your social media profiles will be scrutinised by employers.

You’re hoping all this career planning stuff will fade away and leave you alone.

You don’t want to be unemployed.

The job market has picked up, so you’re optimistic.

You know where to look for graduate jobs.

You have already started applying for jobs.

You might notice something about your mind-state from doing this poll.  You could be someone who is putting off thinking about the whole ‘make a career decision’ thing or you could feel reasonably prepared or somewhere in between.

The career decision continuum

No idea -   Vague ideas - Pretty definite ideas - Definite plan - Plan-in-action - Job offers

 

Careers advisers are there to help you make progress wherever you are on this continuum.  That’s what they live for! (Go to www.uclan.ac.uk/careers)

But keep reading. There’s something else.

The 10 STEPS approach

This is a quick online course to kick start your graduate career decisions.  It will make you excited about the ‘What Next’. 

There are things you can do to boost your chances of getting a great graduate job quickly.  This course will help you take quick action through a sequence of 10 STEPS.  That’s all it will take.

On this online journey you follow 10 short STEPS of interactive learning.  It’s easy to fit it in around whatever else is going on in your life.

There’s a certificate for satisfactory completion of the course.  It’s an extra qualification for your CV.  It tells an employer that you are work-savvy.

Help!

There’s help with this from an employability tutor (that’s me!)  This can be via email, phone, SKYPE or in person.  Impossible to resist.

Available on Blackboard from the 16th of March entitled the ‘10 Practical Steps to getting a job’ online course.

PROMISE. This will be useful.  It will direct you to your first graduate job and help you be confident about your life after university.  Get started!