Four Things You Should Know BEFORE You Graduate College
This post was originally featured on Lionel Barzon III's blog.
It’s an unfortunate fact of life that change can, and often does, affect our life quite a bit. Unexpected large-scale change can derail your entire way of living, of course. But even change that we all see coming, change that we can anticipate, plan for and even look forward to, can have a profound impact on our lives, making us realize we may not have been as prepared as we thought we were.
I’ve already written about things you may be doing wrong in college simply due to the fact that, when you get to college you’ve (probably) never been there before.
So what about after college? What about the time when graduation is in the recent past, the celebrations have died down and you’re left unemployed, burdened with student debt and wholly unprepared for life as an adult? Well, I’ve got a few tips to help you out there as well.
Let me stop you before you get too far ahead of yourself–I already know what you’re thinking.
Lionel, you’re still in school, you’re not graduating until 2018. How can you claim with any semblance of certainty that you wished you knew these things before you graduated when you have not, in fact, graduated yet?
These aren’t things that I didn’t know, these are things that you may not know in your current standing as a college-aged student.
Get an Internship or two, or three
Far, far, far too often do people graduate college without experience under their belts.
Get Into a Leadership Role or Two
The importance of working you way up the ladder cannot be understated. When future employers are seeking out new recruits, particularly those fresh out of college, they’ll be looking for people who have some leadership experience.
Take Initiative & Apply for Jobs BEFORE you graduate
I know that when the semester is winding down and finals are the primary focus of your evenings, it can be difficult to think of most anything else.
It’s not the end of the world if you don’t find gainful employment
But if you’re not hitting the ground running, that doesn’t mean you never will.
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