What do you want to do when you graduate?

I'm a Business Management student at the University of East Anglia. I'm currently interning for a company called Zealify which I'm really enjoying but it's making me wonder what I want to do when I finish uni? Can I find out what everyone else wants to do for inspiration? I'm thinking marketing as it's what my internship is focused on but I'm not sure!

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King Leonidas

21

MA in Social Work and then hopefully become a registered social worker :smile:

Reply 2

ldsbabe

15

I'm doing Business and Management too :smile:

I want to be a Management Consultant. If I can't do that I just want to be the HBIC (Head bitch in charge) of a multi national company...

Reply 3

DannyYYYY

12

MSc in developmental/child psychology then apply for a graduate mental health worker position. Attempts at getting a place on the doctorate then begin.

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EmmaFromZealify

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Sounds great! Is mental health competitive?

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DannyYYYY

12

Original post by EmmaFromZealify

Sounds great! Is mental health competitive?

I hope to become a clinical child psychologist and places on the doctorate to become a clinical or educational psychologist tend to be extremely competitive yes. :tongue:

I think they have a couple thousand applications for only a few hundred places a year. I intend on building up my experience throughout the next few years which I hope will at least give me a good chance of getting a place. :colondollar:

Have you considered doing a masters in your subject?

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Reply 6

EmmaFromZealify

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Original post by DannyYYYY

I hope to become a clinical child psychologist and places on the doctorate to become a clinical or educational psychologist tend to be extremely competitive yes. :tongue:

I think they have a couple thousand applications for only a few hundred places a year. I intend on building up my experience throughout the next few years which I hope will at least give me a good chance of getting a place. :colondollar:

Have you considered doing a masters in your subject?

Thats sou,sounds fantastic. Good luck! Getting experience is definitely the best into anything so I think you are going he right way about it.

Id love to do a masters but ideally I want to find a company who will fund me as I don't think I could afford it myself. I've heard you can't get a student loan for a masters do you know if this is true?

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EmmaFromZealify

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Original post by ldsbabe

I'm doing Business and Management too :smile:

I want to be a Management Consultant. If I can't do that I just want to be the HBIC (Head bitch in charge) of a multi national company...

Haha! I absolutely love that! I suppose I've got that ambition deep down. There's not enough woman taking the lead in business. If you look at the CEO's of the FTSE 100 top companies only a handful are women, it's shocking really.

where do you study?

Reply 8

plusC

I want to either:
Become an actuary
Become a crime analyst using maths to solve crimes
generic banker

Intend to study mathematics

Reply 9

ldsbabe

15

Original post by EmmaFromZealify

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Haha! I absolutely love that! I suppose I've got that ambition deep down. There's not enough woman taking the lead in business. If you look at the CEO's of the FTSE 100 top companies only a handful are women, it's shocking really.

where do you study?

Haha thank you!! Let's do this gurll!! I love strong ambitious business women!
I'm studying at Salford...it's pretty **** but I've got a couple of good years of experience and more to come yet.
Hopefully I'll get an MBA from Manchester Uni.

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EmmaFromZealify

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Original post by King Leonidas

MA in Social Work and then hopefully become a registered social worker :smile:

Ohh brilliant! I once considered going into to social work as I have some experience in the health and social care sector but I backed out at last minute as I doubted how emotionally strong I am. I have so much respect for people who can do those roles. Good luck!

Arre you you doing a degree in social work or another subject?

Reply 11

Jordan-clo

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health and social HND followed by a child nurse degree going on to hopefully become a registered child nurse

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Reply 12

winterbucky

I'm doing Computer Science and Maths and intend to go on a completely different route on graduating: going into User Experience Design.

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King Leonidas

21

Original post by EmmaFromZealify

Ohh brilliant! I once considered going into to social work as I have some experience in the health and social care sector but I backed out at last minute as I doubted how emotionally strong I am. I have so much respect for people who can do those roles. Good luck!

Arre you you doing a degree in social work or another subject?

Thank you, what kind of experience do you have in the health & social care sector? I have just completed BA Politics/Philosophy and graduated with a 2.1, I am taking a year out to obtain some experience and strengthen my CV before I apply for an MA. Yeah, I really would love to work in the social field, helping others has always been my forte, thus doing it as a career would be amazing. At times I have doubted whether I can get a job in the sector due to the large influx of females in social work, however, somebody suggested that it could work in my favour :dontknow:

So what kind of work are you doing at Zealify :smile:

Reply 14

Reue

20

Original post by EmmaFromZealify

If you look at the CEO's of the FTSE 100 top companies only a handful are women, it's shocking really.

I wouldnt describe it as shocking.. or even unexpected, to be honest.

Reply 15

xmertic

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Original post by EmmaFromZealify

I'm a Business Management student at the University of East Anglia. I'm currently interning for a company called Zealify which I'm really enjoying but it's making me wonder what I want to do when I finish uni? Can I find out what everyone else wants to do for inspiration? I'm thinking marketing as it's what my internship is focused on but I'm not sure!

I haven't started uni yet (waiting till September), but my plan for now is to keep travelling the world whilst applying for jobs in the respective field I want to go in to :smile:

Ideally in America, but I'd be happy to stay in the UK or go in to Europe :smile:

Reply 16

Wee.Guy

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Studying: Economics
Upon graduating: still undecided but thinking about Investment Banking/management, Merchant Banking, Economist career wise, considering going a Masters first.

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username457532

17

I think I'd like to run my one ethical cafe. Or work with animals.

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DannyYYYY

12

Original post by EmmaFromZealify

Thats sou,sounds fantastic. Good luck! Getting experience is definitely the best into anything so I think you are going he right way about it.

Id love to do a masters but ideally I want to find a company who will fund me as I don't think I could afford it myself. I've heard you can't get a student loan for a masters do you know if this is true?

Thank you!

Yeah, some universities offer a few funding options including bursaries/scholarships depending on your situation. I'd take a loot around on different university websites for a masters you're interested in and see what they say. :smile:

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Moonstruck16

5

I still have wait until August to find out if I'm going to uni or not but after, I'll hopefully be going on to read biology and will come out with a MSci degree in Environmental Biology.

I love animals and nature and want to work outdoors so I'm (at the moment) really liking the idea of working for the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature).

I also want to travel and move to America so hopefully, during my summers, I'll try to volunteer abroad to get experience and to see the world :awesome: