Since December 2015. Graduate with 2:1 in Business Studies
I've had two interviews since then and they both went really well, thought I was going to get the job each time. The first job for a small business doing warehouse work even invited me to a 4 hour unpaid work trial after the interview on the pretense that I would with 99% certainty be offered the job; they just like to do it as procedure. The work trial went well and they seemed happy with me, talking about how I could do other things for them beyond the job description that would hep the business (photography/photoshop stuff). Then a week later I get the e-mail..."We have processed all decision making metrics and regret to inform you..." I was like lol wtf?
The second job was an apprenticeship admin role at a small business. I for some reason was unaware graduates weren't allowed to do apprenticeships and so were the employers. I didn't care about the £3.30 wage I just wanted some experience - to do something, anything. The interview went really well and they said they'd get back to me in a few days. It took like a week or so in fact, I thought I mustn't have got the job for whatever reason so had gave up hope at that point, but they rang me to say they took so long because they were trying to contact the apprenticeship people (sorry, i'm not familiar with how it works) to allow me to do the apprenticeship even though I was a graduate. The woman who interviewed me seemed more annoyed on the phone than me lol, she said I was their first choice and that she thought it was stupid graduates couldn't do apprenticeships because how else are they supposed to get experience they need?
Honestly an apprenticeship type role like that seems perfect for me but my only realistic option now seems to be call centres, recruitment consultants, other high-turnover 'graduate' jobs with OTE that seem completely dodgy from everything I read about them and the vibe they give off over the phone and in emails (FDM group, Pareto Law etc.)
It's my own fault really for going to University in the first place with no career in mind, and not trying hard to get an internship after my second year, but bloody hell it's quite bleak is this when you think about it. Often think of becoming a farmer living off the land in Ireland or living in a tree house in the woods away from it all. If we don't leave the EU then this country honestly may push me over the edge. Luckily I have grown a healthy sense of gallows humour over the years or else I might have topped myself by now.