Things to consider when you are searching for graduate jobs - CareerAlley

Things to consider when you are searching for graduate jobs - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Have you recently left university, keenly clutching your hard-earned degree, and are now considering your next move? If so, then you are certainly not alone, both because of the continued thriving supply of new graduates and something rather less positive, the nations persistent problematic unemployment statistics. Its therefore likely that in readiness for this key, unquestionably rather intimidating moment, you have already attended no shortage of career advice sessions at your chosen institution, including receiving plenty of information on relevant job, training and interview options and strategies. Were not here to use this blog to merely recycle those same old clichs, but instead to shine a spotlight on some of those less frequently mentioned priorities when the time comes for you to hunt for graduate jobs Such priorities include keeping your online profile clean Weve all had embarrassing drunken photos posted on Facebook, or for that matter made a comment on Twitter or an Internet message board that we have later regretted. Indeed, theres a relative permanence to your online footprint that makes it all the more important to be wary of what you use the World Wide Web to say and do. There are, however, still various steps that you can take to minimise any damage, including using the privacy settings of Facebook and Twitter to only show your personal information to those people that you choose to make your friends and followers. You can also create new profiles on sites such as Xing and LinkedIn, in the process creating a much more professional online image. experimenting in your job hunt Given the primacy of the World Wide Web, its easy to forget that there are so many other ways of finding graduate jobs than merely visiting the most obvious job search websites and performing a search. It is doing precisely this, in fact, that is most likely to expose you to the greatest amount of competition for that dream role. So, what do you do instead? Well, what you do instead is mix things up, making the most of those more obscure job hunting strategies. Rather than applying blind for a particular role, for example, you may want to concentrate on building up a potentially lucrative network of contacts. Or maybe you could try visiting the websites of smaller companies rather than applying for jobs at the larger corporations at recruitment fairs? When it comes to the ever-unpredictable search for graduate jobs, its all possible. brushing up on your interview technique Finally, lets imagine that youve refined that, made a good few applications and have received the call to the interview room. This is your cue to get researching, finding out about the latest industry developments in addition to the challenges that are relevant to this particular job. As you prepare, consider how you will integrate this knowledge into your answers to particular types of questions. And of course, one of the most important elements of all when you are looking for graduate jobs is showing plenty of enthusiasm, both for the job hunt in general and each particular role that you seek. Good luck! This is a guest post by Barry Magennis on behalf of WikiJob. WikiJob lists the latest graduate jobs vacancies including finance jobs, engineering jobs and law vacancies. If you would like to submit a guest post to CareerAlley, please follow these guest post guidelines. Good luck in your search.Visit me on Facebook