Continuing from part 1, Cassie discusses different paths that students can take after further education, using her friends as examples.
There are far more options to choose from after college than simply going straight into university. Some people choose to have a break and take a year out, to travel or work (or both, usually), before re-entering education. A friend Josh chose this route, but he ran into a few problems along the way.
Josh plans to tour around Thailand and China for three months when he’s saved enough money. However, as this was his first time seeking full-time employment, he didn’t know how to write a CV or how to apply for a job. He had difficulty finding work, and in the interviews he was given, he was left feeling overwhelmed by the business environment.
Eventually, he was forced to seek professional interview advice and CV-writing help. Though all students are given rudimentary job-seeking advice at school, Josh found that when it came to the reality of getting started in full-time work the advice he was given was insufficient and out of date.
On the Jenrick website I noticed there were some useful pages on how to write a CV, so I recommended this and other related websites to him. From this advice he soon found temporary office employment in Walton, and he will soon have enough money to tour the Far East and take up his deferred entry at university next year with more worldly experience behind him.
Personally, I was surprised by how impractical the advice we were taught at school turned out to be, and through recommending websites to Josh I learned a great deal about CV advice and how to do well in interviews myself, which hopefully will be useful when I leave university.
If you would like to read the third and concluding part of Cassie’s article on life after sixth form, click here.
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