The head of Ucas says universities are ‘too fixated’ on careers. After obsessing about jobs in my final year, I agree
Like many students, I was fixated on careers in my final year. I had no idea what to do. My graduation photo sums it up well: “Bloody hell,” my fake smile says, “what happens now?”
Last week, Mary Curnock Cook, the head of Ucas, said universities and middle-class parents had become “too fixated” on careers and “in an ideal world, six months out is a good idea”. Looking back on a bittersweet year before I started my master’s, I’m inclined to agree.
I had visited my university’s careers department and decided, in my less-than blissful ignorance, that recruitment might be a good bet. A week after graduation, I had an interview at a recruitment firm in London. My interviewer said I had a spark about me and was interested. I could email him to confirm a second interview in a month’s time if I wanted the job. The only proviso was I cut my hair: short back and sides, like everyone else in the company. I couldn’t afford to take the offer lightly – but was this really the kind of place I wanted to work?
https://www.educnews.info/why-a-year-out-after-graduation-is-worth-the-risk/4369
>>136474
fucking millenials
>>136477
And to the think GenX used to be known as "slackers".
>>136474
Universities judge success of their graduates based on whether they find a job and what job it is. What would the writer propose as an alternative and why should I care about a person who walk away from a job offer because it would require them to look presentable when meeting with clients?
>>136512
I would turn down a job for reasons like the writer described but I also had many interviews and didn't get stupidly discouraged cause one interview didn't meet my expectations. Being picky is fine, but throwing in the towel and taking 6 months off cause nothing pans out is fucken stupid.
>>136474
>Spend 100k and 6 yrs when you don't even know what you want to do
shit people are stupid