Succeeding in the Job Market: Attributes of a Graduate
Essay Title;
Identify the most important attributes, personal qualities and skills a Graduate from your Degree discipline must possess to succeed in the graduate labour market. Consider which of these skills you already possess and what you need to further develop in order to enhance your employability when you graduate.
After leaving University many students find themselves in a strange environment, jobless and for the first time in their life free from education. A percentage of graduates will have been wise enough, or lucky enough, to have already been with an organisation and for them university was just a requirement of their current bosses. Some may have chosen to complete ‘sandwich’ courses and having impressed during their years gap in the workplace may be walking straight into their life’s career. For the rest of graduates they will be fighting to try and prove to those hiring that they have the edge on every other student in their same situation. The hunt for a post university job is one which can be extremely demanding with the guardian suggesting figures as high a 70 applicants per job vacancy and the number of available positions falling by nearly 7%. (The Guardian; Jeevan Vasagar; 2010). All of this is pushing students to look at their employability and really see how they can best succeed in the graduate labour market.
Be well rounded;
A quick learner;
Have good technology Skills;
Have a good Network;
Reviewing these it is easy to see that Employers are not just looking for ‘someone with a good degree’ or as the common perception has been that all you need is a degree of any sort but that employers are more concerned about the type of graduate they will be employing. Organisations would be looking for their employee not to just be great at one skill area but to be someone who excels in a variety of different areas. Not just academically but skills like communication and friendliness.
An employee that finds it easy to pick up new skills
Identify the most important attributes, personal qualities and skills a Graduate from your Degree discipline must possess to succeed in the graduate labour market. Consider which of these skills you already possess and what you need to further develop in order to enhance your employability when you graduate.
After leaving University many students find themselves in a strange environment, jobless and for the first time in their life free from education. A percentage of graduates will have been wise enough, or lucky enough, to have already been with an organisation and for them university was just a requirement of their current bosses. Some may have chosen to complete ‘sandwich’ courses and having impressed during their years gap in the workplace may be walking straight into their life’s career. For the rest of graduates they will be fighting to try and prove to those hiring that they have the edge on every other student in their same situation. The hunt for a post university job is one which can be extremely demanding with the guardian suggesting figures as high a 70 applicants per job vacancy and the number of available positions falling by nearly 7%. (The Guardian; Jeevan Vasagar; 2010). All of this is pushing students to look at their employability and really see how they can best succeed in the graduate labour market.
Be well rounded;
A quick learner;
Have good technology Skills;
Have a good Network;
Reviewing these it is easy to see that Employers are not just looking for ‘someone with a good degree’ or as the common perception has been that all you need is a degree of any sort but that employers are more concerned about the type of graduate they will be employing. Organisations would be looking for their employee not to just be great at one skill area but to be someone who excels in a variety of different areas. Not just academically but skills like communication and friendliness.
An employee that finds it easy to pick up new skills