For all students in their final year of university, the beginning of the second semester can seem intimidating. After all, this is the last semester before you have to look for a job and start leading a full-blown adult life. Unless, of course, you decide to get yourself a master’s degree!
Those who have already passed this period of their lives will confirm that it was not as expected, full of many difficulties that many students may not know about. So, students should understand what they need to be prepared for at the beginning of their career path.
The first attempts to get a job are unlikely to be successful.
If you start looking for a job in your specialty as soon as the door of your university closes behind you, be prepared to not find a suitable job straight away. But why?
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Firstly, young specialists graduate in the summer, when the labour market freezes, and a huge part of the company’s staff goes on vacation;
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Secondly, it is very difficult to find a suitable job at the beginning of your career, only a small part of the offers meet the expectations of a young applicant;
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Thirdly, as sad as it may sound, most employers prefer to invite candidates with experience for an interview.
This does not mean that the job search should be postponed until the fall. Just get rid of the false impression that you will be able to find a job in a couple of days.
Although, who knows, maybe you will become an exception to this rule and actually get a job within a week or even faster?
You don’t have to have a diploma for an interview
Surprisingly, it is a fact that most employers do not view the diploma and its appendix during the first meeting with the applicant. The thing that you have put so many years of work into and which is one of your main recommendations may not be useful during the interview.
Therefore, I can inform you of a strange thing, you don’t need a diploma to get yourself a graduate job. Many employers would prefer you to have one, but many are also open to hire someone with more experience and more suitable personality. After all, they can train you themselves anyway.
The position of a young specialist is at the bottom of the career ladder.
It was already mentioned: a young specialist should know that employers prefer applicants with experience. Honestlu, because of this that beginners without experience are most often offered ordinary, lower paid positions in the company.
If you haven’t had time to gain work experience in your chosen specialty by combining work with studies at the institute, you will probably be offered a position where you will have to perform only simple tasks at the very beginning.
But there are advantages to this:
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You will still get a job in your specialty;
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You will gain this notorious experience;
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You’ll get to understand the specifics of a particular company, starting from the very basics. So later you can decide if you’d prefer to continue your career there, or someplace else;
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With a certain amount of effort, you will soon establish yourself as a valuable, dedicated employee who can be confidently promoted up the career ladder.
You won’t be able to work for good money.
If after graduation you want to work in your specialty in order to get a lot of money, then most likely the prospects will upset you. Novice employees who occupy ordinary positions are rarely paid high salaries. Therefore, at the beginning of your career you will definitely have to, as they say, “tighten your belts.”
However, do not despair: coupled with the promotion, as a reward for diligent work, income will also grow.
You’ll have to study again.
"How so? — fresh specialists will be surprised. — Studying again? We’ve just grafuated from university. " And this, of course, is a reasonable remark, but you can really master the features of any profession only in practice. Therefore, young specialists will have to gain additional knowledge necessary for effective work, right at the workplace — to study, even though they are no longer students.
Maybe, after reading this, you’ll find yourself asking: “And why start a career if there are so many difficulties ahead?”
I am ready to answer this question: because these difficulties are the same for everyone. If you overcome them, you get not only decent pay and a high, respectable position at a good company, but also experience and respect from colleagues, the reputation of a professional and generally purposeful person.
Starting from the bottom has its perks: experience, understanding the company inside out, and chances for promotions.