Feel like students are very negative about jobs after university?!

Oh wow that is tough, I would definitley prepare a good comeback on that stating actually I have been employed and I've been doing x x and x. I volunteered from June 2015 until a few weeks ago and not once in the 8 interviews did the fact I wasn't in a paid role come up (it clearly said volunteer on my cv). The only person who was funny about it was a lady from a recruitment agency, actual employers weren't bothered.

Yeah, tell me how working in mackies at the age of 16 will help me get my VS or a TC.

i had an interviewer who actually said 'Oh well you don't have any real work experience, but apart from that a great interview'..... I had to explain I'd worked for domino's for two years while in six form 30+ hours a week, worked meat and fish counter in tesco for a year, then worked in a complaint department for a bank for a year, then worked in pubs and a jewellery shop while at uni. All the while doing work experience in various offices and HR departments....

The response I got, 'ahhh but no real life experience then?' weirdly enough my best experiences were the opposite of yours, recruitment agencies usually take note and always hammer it home to potential employers, they just don't seem to listen.

The youth of today are so lazy that is why.

optimism is narcissistic, and unrealistic.

But seriously, its pretty dire right now for young people:

- Job security non existant for many
- Unpayed internships and similar extortion normal
- Huge mass of similarly qualified individuals with little real training/skills
- Zero hours contracts and shift work common
- Income levels stagnant for years
- Much much harder to buy a house then our parents/grandparents
- Likely to retire much later
- More likely to rent for longer
- Having babies older
- Marrying less
- More likely to have to live with our parents

top it all off with
- First generation since records began that are forcast to earn less over the course of their lives then their parents did..

So yeah, life on average is pretty tough out there for a 20 something who aims to lead an adult life..

All you can do is work harder, think smarter, be better then the average 20 something, and try and avoid the mess many are falling into..

Yeah, tell me how working in mackies at the age of 16 will help me get my VS or a TC.

Tbf part time work is in my opinion why I've secured a TC. Working since 16 is the one way I really stand out, obviously I have the good grades but so does everyone.

I've worked in bars, and now supervise a bar, which in reality is the same as working in McDonalds. There's no reason why you can't make comparisons between dealing with difficult customers and law firms dealing with clients.

I've had to settle arguments, deal with complaints, manage expectations, work in a team, manage my time efficiently etc. and all of those competencies help applications.


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Started work in retail the moment I was 16, went through college and got my a levels, decided to do an apprenticeship in the field I want to work in. Did that for a year alongside my part time retail job. Went to uni to study the subject I want to work in, graduated. Still all the while in my retail job. Can't even get an interview in the field I worked in and got a degree in.

Going crazy trying to find a job. Its hard!

Tbh people have a reason to be pessimistic. I'm a First Class Oxford grad, did several voluntary/leadership positions with societies at university, and did a short term internship during the summer of my second year. I have just started my second graduate internship because even with this I wasn't able to get a job after my first internship (at a very respectful organisation). I'm now applying to graduate schemes but am having to keep re-building my self confidence each time I get a rejection - and worry that despite all the work I have put in to get impressive credentials, I will still be unable to find a graduate-level job after I finish my current internship. It doesn't make it easier when I have older generations telling me that the reason I can't get a job is because I'm not trying...

Is it graduate level position or nothing? How about entering your chosen career slightly below graduate level, to get your foot in the door and demonstrate competency in your chosen field (which you do not mention as one of your achievements), then swiftly progress through the ranks due to having excellent qualifications to back up proven practice. I don't see any of the pessimistic post graduates saying that they have attempted this, yet I have seen this method successfully put into practice.

I am taking a below graduate level job - an unpaid internship which I hope to be able to get an entry-level job at the organisation with. In my case it's very disheartening that the 'below graduate level' is not even a paid job...

At the moment I'm applying to both entry level and graduate schemes (sorry I didn't mention this). But it can't be hard to see how it's disheartening for graduates, who throughout school were bombarded with the advantages of a degree, to leave with 50k worth of debt and still having to apply for jobs they would have been qualified for at school - hence why a graduate-level role is the ideal

I dont know about what you think but I feel like people are so desperate and negative about life in general after uni. Hard to find an intership, hard to find a job if whatever your subject, or if you havent got a 2:1 or more, hard to find a "well paid" job in your chosen area (ending up in retail). I feel confused sometimes because after if you say I will go straight to work, aprentenship after A-level, people say it's hard to get a job/ employer.
Since the 21th century really has begun the youth mood has gone down and down I feel. Is it just an big impression or is everybody negative towards this society, feeling lile they have got no future?

What degree did you do?

You see, I was very fortunate to have done work experience in a neuroscience laboratory at Imperial and the head of directors of the labs at imperial basically warned me to stay away from biochemistry and biology degrees. He completely wiped my interest in neuroscience;however I'm glad he warned me. Literally nobody believes me and gets mad when I say biology really isn't worth it.

I haven't done a degree yet. I'm applying for university for 2017 entry. I want to do chemical engineering though. I do actually really enjoy chemistry and maths, they are the only A level subjects I don't struggle with. I find biology quite hard