In episode 3 of season 3 Siobhan and Konstantina chat with guest Dhruv Khrisnaraj the Director & Co-Founder at Student Circus a job search platform for international students.

• ⁠Find out more on the Warwick University Careers pages for International Students⁠
• ⁠The full video podcast is available on YouTube⁠
• ⁠International Graduate Success with Dhruv Khrisnaraj Spotify
• UK government's immigration White Paper (The Careers Chat Bonus Episode Season 3) YouTube

Transcript:

"Siobhan Qadir: And you mentioned the dreaded white paper I guess, you know, we've had a lot of really stressed out students, current students, and I’m about to start working with pre-arrival things, events and such like. But what do you think moving forward with... we've got to give people an idea of what they can do if it is shortened, what would your advice be? Dhruv Khrisnaraj: So the good part is they've now got rid of it. It's shortened there was a lot of talk that they want to get rid of it. And they've not kind of done any sort of requirements where you have to get a graduate level job.You can do anything even for 18 months even if they go through with the proposal. So look, Yes you think it's shorter by six months, which is a big deal, I don't think so I still think that it's not just 18 months that students have.Funnily enough, after you finish your course you have four months on your student visa, which is the amount of time it takes to pass your degree and get your certification and all that kind of stuff and then apply for the Post-Study work visa.So technically it's not 18, you still have a good 20 to 23 months. You know, between you finishing your course and your post-study work visa ending, that's almost two years.You can do a lot in two years honestly speaking you can hustle your way, you can network with people you can do so many different...you can get work experience. You know, a lot of the time students are kind of stuck up on...I'm not advocating non-paid work, but what I'm trying to say is look when you don't when people don't know, companies don't know what you can deliver you might want to give your skill set as a trial to the companies and then say, look, if you like what I've done and supported you can we work on an internship and then convert to a job etc?You don't have to go in with the mindset that I need to get 40 grand, If you going to go with that mindset you're going to have lesser number of roles but if you can prove that you're worth 40 grand it's going to be much easier for you to convince them."