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In what sector?
Engineering or biomedical stuff?
In what area of the country, London?
Appealing university grades
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In what sector?
Engineering or biomedical stuff?
In what area of the country, London?
I've been turned down by so many normal jobs, I've turned to grad schemes. Can't get any interviews for gov agency work (fisheries, environment agency etc), so I'm turning to grad schemes to try to get any sort of work.
It seems all jobs out there in my sector want 2+ years experience in industry yet pay a fraction of what grad schemes do.
Lidl in Ireland offer grads €40k year in their grad scheme with a company car and benefits.
It's for IT, Finance, HR, Governance, Marketing and Supply Chain fields.
Most grad programmes offer an awful lot, but are highly competitive.
For people saying a 2:2 locks you out of all grad schemes, you would be wrong. I got a 2:2, due to being a lazy stupid thought-I-knew-It-all and messing up my exams. I have still managed to get several grad schemes interested in me despite their initial comments that a 2:1 is required.
Having a very well planned CV and excellent interview skills are really what you need, coupled with the genuine desire to follow the job you want. (but a 2:1 will help crap loads!)
Having a very well planned CV and excellent interview skills are really what you need, coupled with the genuine desire to follow the job you want. (but a 2:1 will help crap loads!)
IT, it might be a slightly biased opinion as its only from my course, but everyone whos on a grad scheme is on 30k plus. Employers being Cisco, BT, Capital One, GE and a couple others companies i cant remember. Then again maybe our year is just exceptional that way?
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IT, it might be a slightly biased opinion as its only from my course, but everyone whos on a grad scheme is on 30k plus. Employers being Cisco, BT, Capital One, GE and a couple others companies i cant remember. Then again maybe our year is just exceptional that way?
It might be the norm for IT related grad schemes (I think your year is probably an exception rather than the rule though) but it's not necessarily normal for other grad schemes.
A 2:1 or above is likely to give you more options but a 2:2 isn't automatically the end of the world, it does however often mean you'll have to work that little bit harder to distinguish yourself from your peers who do have a higher degree classification. This might be no bad thing in the long run though because after a few years in a job you will hopefully have a more rounded CV and you'll have experience in areas which your contemporaries may not have.
Ultimately I'd look on a degree (or any formally accredited learning) as a tool to open the door - what you do after that is up to you and remember there may be more than one way to get past the door. A good degree won't make up for a lack of ability or application when you actually start working, it might initially put some people slightly higher up the hierarchy than they'd otherwise merit but over time things tend to find their level.
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Only it requires you to spend a lot of money first to get to that level...
It doesn't require anything except a degree, which did not necessarily mean spending lots of money.
Theres no difference between a job and a graduate scheme. Graduate schemes are just put in place because blue chips hire a lot of grads each year. So if you want to get your first job at large company you have no choice.
Well if I rejoined Uni tomorrow and went for a 3 year degree. You are looking at £27k from tuition alone. Seems like quite a lot of money to me.
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Better a live jackal than a dead lion.
Not to mention that after my first job, I don't intend on using my degree results again.
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i haven't read every thing but are you literally just trying to get them to officially bump your grade up 1% still keeping your 2:2 ? are you planning on writing on your cv. 2:2 , 1% off a 2:1 or something ?
It's an investment.
I've just finished my 3rd year, retaking 2 modules in July which is fairly annoying, I was 4 marks off being bumped up to a pass in one of my exams, and the main reason that went wrong was because my mind just went blank, but I had only really revised 1 out of 4 topics so can't complain, and my 2nd exam was a complete and utter failure, I did try really hard to revise for it, but when it came to the exam it just wouldn't happen...
This is Mechanical Engineering by the way, and as long as I pass my resits, I'll be on a 2:2. I'm pretty content with it, as that's whats needed to do a masters, so I can hopefully get onto it for September, then I can just write whatever grade I get in that on my CV
I had thought before about what happens if I'm 1% or 2% off a 2:1, and you should just put you actual percentage on your CV next to your degree, e.g. Degree 2:2 (59%), as they'll most likely treat it as a 2:1 seeing as there was hardly anything in it!
This is Mechanical Engineering by the way, and as long as I pass my resits, I'll be on a 2:2. I'm pretty content with it, as that's whats needed to do a masters, so I can hopefully get onto it for September, then I can just write whatever grade I get in that on my CV
I had thought before about what happens if I'm 1% or 2% off a 2:1, and you should just put you actual percentage on your CV next to your degree, e.g. Degree 2:2 (59%), as they'll most likely treat it as a 2:1 seeing as there was hardly anything in it!
i think i was 1% away from a 2:1 well i calculated it myself and assumed so as the UNI gave me a 2:1.
Does anyone actually do this? I have never seen a CV with the percentage next to the degree classification.