I'm a graduate — now what?
The graduate market asks for experience you have not been given the chance to get. The way out is to manufacture evidence of capability, and to stop competing only where every other graduate is competing.
Start the assessmentWhat to do, in order
- 1Understand the actual blockerMost graduate rejections are volume screening, not judgement of you. A hundred generic applications loses to ten targeted ones.
- 2Build experience yourselfSmall paid projects, volunteering with real deliverables, or a portfolio of work you chose to do all count as evidence.
- 3Widen the targetConsider careers related to your degree, careers that ignore your degree, apprenticeships and smaller employers who never run graduate schemes.
- 4Make the CV concreteModules and predicted grades persuade nobody. What you produced, for whom, and what changed does.
Tools for this
- Career Comeback AssessmentThe full diagnostic: your score across seven positions, your barriers and your plan.
- Why can't I get a job?Work out whether the problem is your applications, your CV, your interviews or your target.
- What Jobs Could I Do?In buildGenerate realistic role options from your skills, not your job title.
- CV Score CheckerIn buildScore a CV against the things employers actually screen for.
Read next
- Why can't graduates get jobs?Graduate rejection is usually about screening and evidence, not ability. Here's what's actually happening and what changes the outcome.
- How to get your first graduate jobA step-by-step route to a first graduate job: targeting, evidence, smaller employers, and applications that survive screening.
- Why am I getting rejected from jobs?Applications, interviews and offers fail for different reasons. Work out which part of your funnel is breaking before you change anything.