Graduate Talent Pool, helping unemployed graduates get effective work experience
Graduate Talent Pool is a new initiative developed by the Government to help recent graduates gain relevant work experience.
I’ve been in London today talking on a number of radio stations to move beyond the information provided and to answer questions. Radio presenters differ in style and approach and some like to throw in a ‘curve ball’ but anything to do with helping people get a job is well within my area of knowledge!
The current situation is that there is a greater number of graduates looking for work at the same time as a reduction in the number of job vacancies thus making getting a job more challenging – it’s a very competitive market out there. So graduates can’t assume they will get a graduate job and need to think more widely. So there is a need for different options such as:
· non graduate jobs, so you can work your way up
· paid internships
· unpaid internships
· voluntary work
· work placement
· setting up own business
· overseas travel including teaching English as a foreign language
· further study
The focus of the radio interviews was on the internship option.
Internships are a great way of gaining relevant work experience to help enhance a CV and thus help a graduate get the job they want. They have always been available but now 10,000 extra placements have been created and some of these have deadlines in December, hence raising this now.
You can read my whole article here: http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/pdf/Grad_Talent_Pool-1.doc
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