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.