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A Simple Guide For Graduates Looking For Success

20 November 2018 by Australian Women Online

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A Simple Guide For Graduates Looking For Success

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Graduating from college, or a course similar, can be a bittersweet feeling. Not only have you managed to achieve a real academic milestone in your life, but as soon as it’s over you’ll likely be thinking about what to do next. After all, a degree doesn’t guarantee you income as it once did. Also, even getting a job in the field you’ve trained for might not be as easy as you think. Even high-level graduates might not find a job they were initially expecting. It’s almost guaranteed that look hard enough, and in Wall Street you’ll find brokers who once trained in rocket science or engineering, but the competency in numbers simply applied somewhere else.

When looking for success post-graduation, it’s important to keep a number of things in mind. Without the capacity to look forward to the future, it’s quite easy to fall flat and find it difficult to make any forward progress at all. Consider our advice:

Never Give Up

Never give up, despite the difficulties that might lay before you. It might be that you’ve applied for 250 jobs in the last month, and none of them have gotten back to you. However, you never know, the 251st might be the one that manages to gain you successful employment. It sounds horrific to say, but unfortunately that’s just what’s required. Consider how you’re looking for work. Are you waking up daily as if you were heading to a job, and making looking for a job your personal employment right now? Or do you wake up late in the day, try and send out a few C.V’s by your evening meal and then see what happens? Try to be disciplined in your approach, and never give up.

Take Opportunities

You might not have the luxury of turning down opportunities. The secret here is that many opportunities that you may not have considered important can often teach you plenty of important life lessons that are worth knowing. For example, you might decide to work an online subcontracting job in order to tide over your bills, and find out you really enjoy doing this, and it gives you time to apply to other work also. If you’d snubbed your nose at it immediately, then you would have missed out on that opportunity. Does that mean every single thing that comes your way is perfect? No. But you’ll at least be gaining something.

Targeted & Smart Searching

Try and be targeted and direct in how you search for employment. You might decide to find purposeful graduate jobs here, or try to focus on new businesses moving offices to your location. You might widen your field of searching for a job, potentially thinking that moving to a new city could be possible. You might also come back and rely on your college connections, to see how they’re doing and if they know of any work going. When you search both smart and hard, you’re getting the best of results.

With these simple tips, a graduation potential is sure to land on your lap sometime soon.

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