Post-university fears

I was wondering if other people found themselves in a similar position to me, or if I am unique, under-qualified and ultimately doomed?

You aren't doomed, just lacking perspective.

You've got plenty of experience to draw on, and judging by what you have done, you have some connections or a persuasive application style.

You need to spend every spare moment that you aren't revising for your finals, making use of the Careers Centre at King's. They will have several hundred employers visiting in the autumn term at careers fairs, to give presentations etc. Get along to as many as you can and get talking to employers and employees to see what takes your fancy. And get ready to start applying to things from late October. It takes some organisation and focus, but its 3 months in return for a 45 year career - not such a big deal really. Your finals will be much less pressured if you've got a job to take up after graduation.

With a degree like history I see why you're so worried

Somewhat unhelpful but true to an extent. History doesn't lend itself to any career as immediately as other qualifications

Thanks for your response, it really is appreciated. Just to clarify, you don't think my CV (described extremely haphazardly) will hinder job prospects?

With regards to my future career I am genuinely interested in becoming a teacher and was thinking of applying for TA positions during the next year to get further classroom-based work experience before going on to apply for the PGCE in late 2014. I intended to consult the Careers centre upon returning to university.

I will visit the various careers fairs in the autumn term, although out of interest what are they useful for. I understand that they display graduate employers and the suchlike but what sort businesses turn up, I can tell you that I'm not cut out to be a city based corporate? furthermore does the event put you in touch with employers to the extent that you might get a job?

Thanks again for your time and help.

The skill in writing a competitive CV is to take the life you've led and distill out of it, just that slice that makes it sound like you've spent all your time preparing to be a [insert job you are applying for]. So a) a CV isn't about the whole picture of you as a person and b) you actually have a CV for each application, so not a CV.

Employers won't bother to send 3 employees and several thousand pounds of direct costs and lost primary business if they don't think these career events are worthwhile, so you need to work out what value you can get out of them. It's a quick way to get lots of literature about different employers, to hear several different angles on the same types of job, to listen to a number of presentations about recruitment, career progression etc. And finally, if people didn't get recruited out of them, they wouldn't occur. Take a loo at the stats on your own course and see what roles and employers people have gone on to do after graduation. The DLHE data is openly available either centrally or through your Uni website.

The University will not only have a Law Fair and an IB Fair and a Consultancy Fair, but its also likely to have a Not for Profit event, Teaching etc etc. It's King's - the Careers Service will be a very large and comprehensive operation!