The biggest mistake graduates make isn’t dodgy spelling on your CV – it’s only using one or two job-hunting strategies when you should be using all of them. What else could you be doing?
If you’ve applied to dozens of advertised vacancies and signed up with countless recruitment agencies, well done. But there’s much more you should be doing as well. Different methods work for different industries. Try them all and chart how successful each is for you. Then do more of what’s working – and have the courage to ditch any strategies aren’t getting results. Remember, your time and energy are limited resources, so make sure you’re using them wisely.
Fear not – Graduate Fog knows that the last thing you need it yet another yawnsome list of ‘helpful’ suggestions about all the many lovely methods you could be using to find work. (We figure if you wanted that, you’d have downloaded the government’s dire 24-page PDF ‘Life after Graduation’ Zzzzz…). Instead, we given an honest critique of how useful we think each method actually is – and shown you clever little ways to make them work for you.
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First got to say this website seems really good on 1st impression. I’ve had real difficulty finding a job in accountancy and its dominated by agencies as the amount of businesses with finance departments is almost limitless there no real alternative to find out who is recruiting. which are full of really dishonest people should do a blog post about this.
One thing I would like to add is recruitment fairs. My uni lied to us that you can impress people there. The honest opinion go and ask about roles which will give you way more info than going on their website. It will bve juniors there anyway who have no influence in recruiting and will just say apply online. Also no need to go in a suit to these either like my uni suggested. Go just don’t look like a scruff.