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A graduate scheme is a great start on the career ladder

It’s not exactly the most normal stage to be searching for graduate jobs or trying to get into one or other internship or one of the graduate scheme that organisations offer. With finals just weeks away, most of your contemporaries will probably be adopting the attitude that thinking about the future is best left until after exams end. That means many will postpone looking for two or three months (what with post-finals celebrations), which effectively means they will be well into the holidays before they start looking properly. By which time, it’s likely to be too late.

With a bit of preparation and forward planning, this is somewhere you could get ahead. Finals are crucial, but life goes on afterwards – it’s just hard to remember that fact in the midst of exam revision. However, when you get to the end of them the rest of life is going to greet you. You could spend the next period of time doing something interesting that will set you up in your future career. On the other hand, you might end up spending the next three months killing time in a series of menial jobs you only do for the money – perhaps all for the sake of spending an hour or two in the Careers centre or on the web checking out which companies are offering positions you might like to try.

There’s plenty out there. Graduate jobs aren’t so easy to come by at the moment, thanks to the economy, but there are still lots of opportunities. Internships are reasonably common, and offer a good way to get to know a bit about a company, what they do and how they treat their workers, without you signing your life away to them for the long term. (The other side of this is that they typically don’t pay so well. In practice, you will probably have to balance your interest in the company and desire for experience with the financial realities of life after college.)

The moral is: act soon. It’s never too early to begin looking for graduate jobs or other options like graduate scheme. Even if you’re not searching for something that permanent – perhaps you’re not even a finalist – then an internship can get you a foot in the door and allow you to gain vital experience and contacts. Given the job market at the moment, a search at this stage – when many of your contemporaries won’t be able to take their eyes off exams – could surely pay huge dividends in the long run.

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Security jobs jobs London is what I thought I wanted to do

I have had, in my humble opinion, a variable and interesting career path. To begin with, I wanted to be a salesman. So I tried to find out what sales jobs Jobs London, a London-based jobs agency – I don’t know if it’s still there – had available. Eventually I realised that that career path wasn’t for me, so I looked at the security jobs jobs london were advertising. I got a job in security in Clapham Junction, but I was eventually made redundant. This occurred at the time when employers were in a muddle about taking on new employees, so it was a tough time. However, I eventually managed to find one, utilising my sales experience to apply to sales ledger manager jobs in London. I was back in sales, which wasn’t great, but it was a job, so I could not grumble, especially seeing the problems that some of my friends, who had been made redundant at the same time as me, were going through. Then one day, a friend from back home – I am originally from Bedford – told me about positions in accounts clerk jobs in Bedfordshire.

I had not really given much consideration about moving away from London up until that point. After lots of years living in Streatham I was quite happy there. But then again, as I started thinking about it, I had never really come to feel at home. Then, as I considered it a bit more, the image of returning to Bedford seemed more and more attractive. I thought about all of my old buddies and acquaintances who were most likely still around, drinking in our local pub and playing darts. I realised that the time was perfect to relax a bit, and slow down after living at the hectic pace of life in London. The only problem was that my girlfriend of two years is still working in London, but she is also from Bedford, and not so keen on her current job. So she comes to visit most weekends, and is looking to find work here now.

So, from searching through the sales jobs Jobs London had available, and finding work through the security jobs jobs london was advertising, to a couple of lucrative sales ledger manager jobs in London, I realised that I had been in the capital for the best part of fifteen years. I knew it was time to move on, so I took my friend’s advice and applied for accounts clerk jobs in Bedfordshire, and have been home, in my native Bedford, since then.

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