Graduated with a 2.1 from King's College London. No job

What do you mean "much to my surprise"? No wonder you don't have a job.

Graduate medicine is harder to get into than "normal" undergraduate medicine at the age of 17/18.

He has quite a good degree I know loads of people with worse degrees who have got in.

He has quite a good degree I know loads of people with worse degrees who have got in.

Was a student mentor, played in the football team, senior member of the biomed society (where I arranged revision sessions and taught others during exam times), captain of a 5 a side footy team, organised a few charities (e.g. Syria, Horn of Africa, Children with leukemia). Also undertook a bookkeeping role during my studies for a dairy company. And I have spent a lot of time tutoring others.

Commercial awareness is 'easy' to prepare for, especially if you spend a few hours reading the Financial Times, Accountancy Age and BBC News.

Nevermind the graduate schemes - finding a normal job seems to be extremely difficult. I have a generic cover letter which encompasses what I have done during university and the skills that I have obtained from these roles. I use this as a template for every job that I apply to.

Or am I looking in the wrong places? Is applying solely through the internet a bad idea? Or should I go to the firms and hand my CV in person?

I'm not trying to be a 'debbie downer' or someone who is looking for sympathy. However, I'm simply left puzzled as to what I have to do.

That means nothing as to get into GEM, it's not just about your degree classification.

What do you mean "much to my surprise"? No wonder you don't have a job.

Graduate medicine is harder to get into than "normal" undergraduate medicine at the age of 17/18.

I have tons of work experience and extra cirruc.

Well what else is it about?

I think internships would be valuable in terms of gaining experience, although some firms only accept those in penultimate year of study. I graduated in Oct 2012 so that completely rules me out there.

While I have been doing temp work, I haven't got any formal job. I have a degree in Biomedical Science and irrespective of where I apply, I get rejection after rejection after rejection after rejection after rejection. I've lost track of the types of jobs that I have applied to. I've got no idea what to do.

Worst of all, my dreams and hopes of entering entering medical school have also been shattered after four rejections.

I'm not sure, but PwC should've given you feedback with regards to the telephone interview. Something isn't right here. I don't think you interview very well because if you answered questions properly, you should, at the very least, have got to the AC for PwC.

So does everyone else though...that's the problem.


So....I'm confused...do you want to be a banker or medic? You seem to be applying for both?

Bristol can answer that for you:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/medical-school/prospective/application/entrycriteria/

I made some mistakes in the PWC interview - there were a few questions which threw me that I found difficult to answer. The EY one was a strengths based interview. This was harder to predict. The list of Qs that I downloaded from WikiJob were entirely irrelevant. I was asked a lot of 'new' questions. So my prep wasn't really adequate.

But I think I must be generally bad at interviews. I do get somewhat nervous too. Barts interview? Rejection. King's interview? Rejection. These grad schemes? Rejection. Blah.

What do you mean "much to my surprise"? No wonder you don't have a job.

Graduate medicine is harder to get into than "normal" undergraduate medicine at the age of 17/18.

I went to this university different universities consider different things many don't look at alevels. Also maybe it is more competitive than I first thought I was just surprised that he didn't get any offers.

Here is the weakness that lies in you. Sort it out. Seriously, if it is your interview style that's letting you down, you need to get better at it, otherwise you're going to be unemployed for some time. This is the truth.

When did you get rejected by PwC? You can reapply every 3 months. But do not do the ACA if your heart is not in it. You will fail, be sacked, be left very embarrassed and will be in the same position when the papers get harder (about 1 year into your contract).

Wow. Ever heard of constructive criticism. I think its a bit harsh to assume theres somethingwrong with the OP. As companies always say in their rejection letters they get a LOT of applications for how many places there are. You keep saying there must have been something wrong with him to not make it to A/C how about the fact he made it to interview at all,? that clearly shows he's doing something better than a lot of other applicants. I'm not syaing the OP is perfect and I'm sure he could benefit from some advice but I think your tone is unecessarily aggressive and derogatory.

As for applying for medicine and finance, I did that too this year. I imagine like me as a graduate you've devoted a lot of years towards trying for medicine already, and while i gave my med application my all ucas was over by october and I had free time, it would have been silly and arrogant of me not to consider back up options.

I don't really have any advice since I didn't even make it past the first stage of my finance appications, I just wanted to chip in and wish you good luck really. I hope something crops up soon.