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There are lots of reasons to go to university. It’s a time to experience life away from home, to expand your horizons and meet new people, as well as to gain extra education. But the reason at the end of all that is to access the graduate jobs market. Given the debts that are now associated with three or more years at university, that reality will be uppermost in the minds of many matriculating or graduating this year. But going directly into a job isn’t the only way to progress after uni. A graduate scheme is another option, as is an internship. (In fact, internships are available while you are at uni, in the holidays, sometimes for stretches of up to three months in the summer or for a few weeks at other times. These can be a great way to see life in the workplace and get to know a particular company. With such a hard jobs market, you would be right to take any opportunity you can get along those lines.)

Research out recently suggested that the average student could soon be racking up debts of around £50,000 over the course of a three year degree. That figure is disputed, with others thinking it will be nearer £40,000, but either way, that’s a lot of money to have to pay back when you leave. However, this is a different kind of debt to other loans like a mortgage. The tuition component is extremely low interest, and only has to be repaid after you pass a particular threshold of earnings. You also have to remember that the average graduate will earn an additional £100,000-plus over the course of their working lifetime, above and beyond the debt their student days involved.

Nevertheless, £40-50,000 is a massive amount of money – more if you are thinking about a longer degree, such as for engineering, which usually involves a ‘sandwich’ year in industry. With that in mind, you should do everything you can to prepare you for getting graduate jobs. A graduate scheme will introduce you to a company and introduce you into their organisation, but these are currently in short supply. Another idea is an internship (after uni, this time). These are often low-paid or expenses-only but are a foot in the door in many cases. Whilst you won’t want to be collecting more debts, if the internship leads to a good job at the end of the term, then it will have been worth it.

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In the current economic climate a great deal is made of the difficulty of getting into graduate jobs or onto a graduate scheme. There are, of course, other avenues open for those people who have recently left university that may still lead to the job offer and outcome that is wanted. internship jobs, for example, can sometimes lead to offers of full employment at the end of them. The main thing is to deeply research your options and make complete use of the resources available to you. Not only will this help you find an enjoyable job much more speedily, it will also help you to continue in a positive and proactive frame of mind.

Internships can be extremely useful experiences for people who have recently left university. Provided the terms of the internship are not taking advantage of the intern, they can permit recent graduates the opening to develop skills that employers will find appealing and to build-up the business familiarity that they may not have gained during three years studying at university. Even if you, as a recent graduate, already have the skills and business knowledge that employers are expecting, doing an internship can enable you to demonstrate that you do own these qualities.

Since you will very likely be competing for the job against a large number of other graduates, both from your own graduation year and from previous years, it is imperative to give yourself the best possible chance of being taken-on by the firm for the position that you have applied for. This means brushing-up your interview technique and being able to talk coherently about the ways in which you meet or exceed the requirements for the role. Again, doing an internship can help demonstrate that you are committed to the sector in which you want to work and work well in a business or office environment.

Conversely, doing an internship might also demonstrate to you that you do not enjoy the work you had hoped to do and would be better-off exploring other options. Internships are handy because they allow you to try out a number of different options without making a long term commitment.

Getting accepted on to a graduate scheme is one way to be trained in the career you hope to follow, but internship jobs can also be very rewarding and allow you to build up your network of contacts and your range of experience to succeed when you do finally get hired for one of the graduate jobs that you have applied for.

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