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Show Notes
Advanced planning after College requires a proactive approach. Thinking about your future is not wasted time for anyone.
Scott and Andrew discuss some ideas and techniques you can utilize now to make a difference in your career future.
Don't miss these Topics:
Whenever your education ends, prepare for it now.
Employment Types during and after college to consider.
Building an online presence.
Activities that will lead in your desired career path
Ways to identify target companies and industries
What should I do with LinkedIn?
How should I approach the people I want to network with?
Resources (including affiliate links)
4-Part Series on the Anatomy of a Networking ConversationJSR 015: The Set-Up
JSR 016: The IcebreakerJSR 017: The Question and Answer
JSR 018: The Ask
iTunes: Rate and Review
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00:00:00 - 00:05:04
Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew, and I'm Scott this production is meant to provide you meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not today seekers radio were talking about how to prepare for college graduation after college that is or any graduation experience, I suppose, and what do I do? Now, we are prior episode. We talked about the choices that we might make and this sort of relates to that were sort of addressing those who think they have a career path. They know basically what they want to do. But they don't know how to take the first steps or maybe there's just too many steps to choose from. But how do I make these kinds of decisions? And there are probably as many different ideas on how to address this. As there are people. You can talk to which is kind of the point. Well, we recognize that the people listening to this may be in school. They have obligations to fulfil their they have term papers and final prepare for and all those things the responsibilities. Of school having time or margin to actually participate in these activists is really important. So that you're not doing it last minute, right? Really? I think this process is to be a little more proactive. Hopefully, you're not waiting until you know, spring semester of your senior term right before graduation and crossing your fingers because that's really not a strategy. No, it isn't. It's not even a plan. But it's what a lot of do. We think we know what we're going to do. And we just wait till the moment to strike, and we jump and we realize we're not landing where we thought we would. So there are a whole lot of things that we can do to prepare for that graduation. Whether that graduation is finishing a training program and jumping into a career, it could be an that could be within a company, it could be the actual university degree, whatever that looks like the idea is getting out into the world before you graduate and finding out the the. Specifics about this one of the first things that people talk about his internships. There are a number of internships out there. Some are paid many are not. And that's something you're going to want to consider if you're in a situation where you need an income and unpaid internship may be an option if you plan it, well, it's going to a little pressure. It's all good just be prepared for that, many states actually have written laws that may prevent or preclude people from hiring, unpaid interns. So in in a lot of states. It's going to vary on where you're at. But you may be able to get a paid internship, most of the time it didn't used to be that way. That's great. But the other thing they consider as full-time employment is that you may be in school now, and you may be able to get full-time employment at your intended target company. There's also ideas that you may be able to get on campus employment. If you haven't explored that already the idea that you get to work in your industry, at least on the academic side of your industry before you get. Out into the real world.
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By Andrew Beach and Scott Pickard-Jones
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Show Notes
Advanced planning after College requires a proactive approach. Thinking about your future is not wasted time for anyone.
Scott and Andrew discuss some ideas and techniques you can utilize now to make a difference in your career future.
Don't miss these Topics:
Whenever your education ends, prepare for it now.
Employment Types during and after college to consider.
Building an online presence.
Activities that will lead in your desired career path
Ways to identify target companies and industries
What should I do with LinkedIn?
How should I approach the people I want to network with?
Resources (including affiliate links)
4-Part Series on the Anatomy of a Networking ConversationJSR 015: The Set-Up
JSR 016: The IcebreakerJSR 017: The Question and Answer
JSR 018: The Ask
iTunes: Rate and Review
Raw and Unedited Transcript
View Transcript
00:00:00 - 00:05:04
Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew, and I'm Scott this production is meant to provide you meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not today seekers radio were talking about how to prepare for college graduation after college that is or any graduation experience, I suppose, and what do I do? Now, we are prior episode. We talked about the choices that we might make and this sort of relates to that were sort of addressing those who think they have a career path. They know basically what they want to do. But they don't know how to take the first steps or maybe there's just too many steps to choose from. But how do I make these kinds of decisions? And there are probably as many different ideas on how to address this. As there are people. You can talk to which is kind of the point. Well, we recognize that the people listening to this may be in school. They have obligations to fulfil their they have term papers and final prepare for and all those things the responsibilities. Of school having time or margin to actually participate in these activists is really important. So that you're not doing it last minute, right? Really? I think this process is to be a little more proactive. Hopefully, you're not waiting until you know, spring semester of your senior term right before graduation and crossing your fingers because that's really not a strategy. No, it isn't. It's not even a plan. But it's what a lot of do. We think we know what we're going to do. And we just wait till the moment to strike, and we jump and we realize we're not landing where we thought we would. So there are a whole lot of things that we can do to prepare for that graduation. Whether that graduation is finishing a training program and jumping into a career, it could be an that could be within a company, it could be the actual university degree, whatever that looks like the idea is getting out into the world before you graduate and finding out the the. Specifics about this one of the first things that people talk about his internships. There are a number of internships out there. Some are paid many are not. And that's something you're going to want to consider if you're in a situation where you need an income and unpaid internship may be an option if you plan it, well, it's going to a little pressure. It's all good just be prepared for that, many states actually have written laws that may prevent or preclude people from hiring, unpaid interns. So in in a lot of states. It's going to vary on where you're at. But you may be able to get a paid internship, most of the time it didn't used to be that way. That's great. But the other thing they consider as full-time employment is that you may be in school now, and you may be able to get full-time employment at your intended target company. There's also ideas that you may be able to get on campus employment. If you haven't explored that already the idea that you get to work in your industry, at least on the academic side of your industry before you get. Out into the real world.