do you think its a bit tight?

lkmc01

and by the way there is such a huge quantity of environmental vacancies the uni states I should have a job lined up from the coursework with the companies I worked for whilst with them

barnaby-bear

lkmc01 wrote: »

well I'll have the advantage with a masters degree over people with only a undergraduate

Most place will automatically discount sub-2:1 unless you can demonstrate significant circumstance... with a 2:2 you may well be throwing your own money after bad; If you are masters material a uni. will/should fund you.

lkmc01

I'm looking forward to my masters, will have a strong relevant highly topical and useful masters with gained work experience and contacts, a loving great partner, a good house deposit, and a beautiful child, which is more than alot of people have achived in their life. goodnight

barnaby-bear

lkmc01 wrote: »

and by the way there is such a huge quantity of environmental vacancies the uni states I should have a job lined up from the coursework with the companies I worked for whilst with them

As an engineer overlapping into envormental (carbon foot print stats) I'd be wary we are warning people it may take 2-3 years to get a decent job at the moment.....and these are oxbridge 1sts.....

lkmc01

not what Ive heard, lots of carbon reduction positions available which is one of the reasons I'm speacialing in this area

lkmc01

new vacancies due to a greater push on environmental legislation

lkmc01

http://www.gradplus.com/graduate-news/lack-of-funding-for-taught-masters-18912299.aspx

http://www.studentcashpoint.co.uk/News.aspx?WCI=htmResults&WCU=CBC=View,SEARCH=,DSCODE=J4BGRL2,NEWSITEMID=240-N383,UDATA=LISTMODE%3DTOPNEWSITEMS

Anew

Sweet jesus - you really couldn't write this stuff!

Thanks for the chuckles OP - I pray to god this is a wind up.

If not then - if you can't figure out what everyone else here is telling you - then an MSc is perhaps not for you.

Emmzi

lkmc01 wrote: »

there is nothing wrong with a 2:2, its your work experience and contacts that count

How many graduates a year do you hire?

My department take about 120 (mixed)

My last company we took about 40 (all engineers)

Company before that, 40 (mixed)

I work in graduate recruitment a lot of the time. I go to events with other graduate recruiters to see what they are looking for. When we are short staffed I conduct the assessments. I have seen a lot of grads who think the word owes them a living, who have not got off their butt to get any real life experience, whose feedback is 'go and try work for a bit'.

A lot of the time, especially in your line, I want a 2:1. Yes, I do take lower degrees, but not for the specialist jobs, and not for the same money. We've tried 2:2s in the higher paid specialist roles. There is usually a reason they got a 2:2. It shows over the first year. I have very demanding jobs. Yes, you may have magic, special mitigating circumstances, but other people haveburned my fingers, so I don't really care what they are.

I think you are wrong. I also think I'd employ you on my graduate scheme with a 2:2 far more easily if you had some work experience - not a sandwich course, not a placement, but 6 to 12 months in any kind of a job with somne responsibility. This will show me you can cope with the demands of both work and home life and rise to the top. You would be worth immeaurably more to me if your masters was over 2 years and you were even working in topshop on a saturday, than yet another grand theorist.

I think you are wrong on many, many counts; but from your other posts you have shown that you will not listen, so I expect you to tell me "what your uni careers adviser says" and "what my lecturer says" contradict me.

Fine. They're not hiring. I am.

I vote for 2 years part time, a part time job for the entire duration with the same company where you can get some responsibility, and take this huge burden off hubbie's shoulders of supporting your selfish 'I want'. He isn't Rockerfella. You can't afford a divorce.

debrag

lkmc01 wrote: »

yes but when I am earning I won't need any of that if we can live off my partners wages, so I'll be able to save it all, unlike the people who waste money and then moan they have none

You can hardly live on it now. Your kid will grow up, want things etc