Graduate prospects???

foxyd3vil12

I am just coming to the end of a three year course (BA Hons management degree) and have been applying for many graduate trainee programmes. So far I have had no luck with any of them. I cant really relocate as this means moving my 5yr old ds with me and I have the added benefit of having family near me right now.

I am currently working part time but there dont seem to be any career prospects available there either. Im beginning to feel like I've wasted three years of my life and am just going to end up back in an office job!

Any advice????

The_One_Who

The job market right now is rubbish, and many companies have completely frozen their recruitment, or at least limited it a lot. By not being able to relocate you are narrower your chances even more.

Have you looked at non-graduate schemes? A lot of jobs will be open to you, but not be specific for graduates.

foxyd3vil12

I have been applying for assistant managers/ supervisors but not getting much luck as I only have 6 months experience of management from my placement and the experience from my current job.

I knew it would be hard this year still with graduate jobs and it would have helped if i could relocate. Shame really.

Guess I'll have to keep on looking, many thanks

Oldernotwiser

As a lone parent you are in an ideal situation of being able to take on appropriate but unpaid intern programmes. Bear this in mind when planning your next move.

Lokolo

The_One_Who wrote: »

The job market right now is rubbish, and many companies have completely frozen their recruitment, or at least limited it a lot. By not being able to relocate you are narrower your chances even more.

Have you looked at non-graduate schemes? A lot of jobs will be open to you, but not be specific for graduates.

Also depends on the area. The job I have at the moment, which I am going for next year, is still open for graduates and they're still interviewing at the moment.

Crazy. Hopefully they will end up with less than they need and will put more applications next year

foxyd3vil12

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

As a lone parent you are in an ideal situation of being able to take on appropriate but unpaid intern programmes. Bear this in mind when planning your next move.

where can i get more information on these intern programmes? The careers in my uni was not very helpful to say the least.

my degree is in hospitality mgt and I assumed the industry was still doing well. Have also tried retail to broaden my occupation but to no avail.

Thanks for all the advice

Oldernotwiser

foxyd3vil12 wrote: »

where can i get more information on these intern programmes? The careers in my uni was not very helpful to say the least.

my degree is in hospitality mgt and I assumed the industry was still doing well. Have also tried retail to broaden my occupation but to no avail.

Thanks for all the advice

This page on the Prospects website might be a good place to start but you could always arrange something for yourself which might be more convenient and would show initiative.

http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Work_experience/p!eigaLjd

Premier_2

foxyd3vil12 wrote: »

... Im beginning to feel like I've wasted three years of my life ...

As Nick Clegg said, whats the alternative? Spending 3 years on the dole.

What you need to understand is that with 40% of young people going to Uni now, then a degree really isn't worth the paper it's written on today. It used to be that less than 4% of of the educationally elite went to university and so secured the top jobs. Now there are 40% going, it's not unsurprising that there simply arn't that number of jobs available for newly qualified graduates to fill.

It was a great wheeze for the government at the time to suggest so many people went to university; not only would it drastically reduce the unemployment numbers by calling 40% of young people 'students' rather than unemployed, but also con them into getting into £000's of debt so they can pay to keep keep lots of other graduates, who would probably also be unemployed, employed as lecturers. Don't believe the hype that you can afford to pay back the loans because you'll earn twice the average national wage - it rarely happened when there were only less than 4% with degrees, now there are 40% it just can't happen, sorry.

The simple mathematical facts that were obvious to some were going to occur has only recently started to become obvious to others as the expectation becomes reality.

As people say, the next government whoever they may, be is being handed a poisoned challice ... and this is just one part of the whole sorry state they'll inherit.

melancholly

Premier wrote: »

What you need to understand is that with 40% of young people going to Uni now, then a degree really isn't worth the paper it's written on today.

so they can pay to keep keep lots of other graduates, who would probably also be unemployed, employed as lecturers.

ok.... erm.... a lot of degrees are worth a lot - a third in madonna studies from a uni no-one has heard of will clearly not help a great deal with getting a job and work experience is also critically important. but you can't be that dismissive.

i do find your comment about lecturers interesting - in most unis you need a phd and multiple years as a postdoc to get a lectureship, and even then, you're there for the research not the teaching.

there is a lot wrong with our uni system, but there's something even more wrong when completely factually incorrect posts like this can be made!

TDQO

This is exactly the reason I chose to study Mining Engineering... more jobs than graduates, work in every single country on the planet oh and wages start at approx £40k for a 21yr old inexperienced graduate. Sorry if I sound a little smug...

foxyd3vil12

Premier wrote: »

As Nick Clegg said, whats the alternative? Spending 3 years on the dole.

I would have still been working and not on the dole for three years.