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According to pals in the recruitment business graduates are having a tough time finding jobs this year. No surprise there then.
Seth Godin has made some excellent suggestions for how you can improve your prospects and put yourself ahead of the pack – see: Graduate school for unemployed college students.
- Spend twenty hours a week running a project for a non-profit
- Teach yourself Java, HTML, Flash, PHP and SQL
- Volunteer to coach or assistant coach a kids sports team
- Start, run and grow an online community
- Give a speech a week to local organizations.Write a regular newsletter or blog about an industry you care about
- Learn a foreign language fluently
- Write three detailed business plans for projects in the industry you care about
- Self-publish a book
- Run a marathon
Genius.
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I think these are fair points – although you did spell genius wrong…
I think it’s fair to say that if you are struggling over finding a job, don’t just sit about lamenting your lack of employment but get out there and be proactive. You need to find things that you can do that will make you look better or at least fill your time. If you aren’t improving yourself in your spare time then there are plenty of people that will and will be far more deserving of that job you so desperately (although not desperately enough to get up and do something in your “spare” time) want.
….which totally leaves plenty of time for earning money in crappy bar jobs to actually pay the rent whilst juggling underpaid internships ?! Cloud cuckoo land surely. I feel ridiculously lucky to have missed the recession by a year or so, but unless these grads head straight back to mum and dads with their degree in hand I’m not sure how feasible his ‘year off’ idea is!
Not to mention student debt.
I don’t think Godin expects grads to do everything on his list. Point is that adding life skills/experience makes for beter rounded inidividuals that will find it easier to get hired.