Many college students believe that the process of looking for and preparing for a job begins right after graduation, but this prevailing misconception is wrong. The process of preparation and looking for a job actually begins during your university life.
In this article, we will show you the most important advice that must be taken into consideration during your university years, which is extremely important in obtaining a suitable job.
• Strengthen your relationships with your university professors and stay in touch with them, and search for people with unique experiences so that you can benefit from their expertise.
In fact, you should be concerned with building strong relationships with all the important people around you, whether it is a university professor, institution manager, association president, consultant, or expert in your field. Such people can help you find a job or they may alert you to available job opportunities. They can also help you strengthen the skills you need at work.
In addition, several studies have shown that these strong relationships increase your sense of self-confidence and make you do well during job interviews.
• Try as much as possible to participate in activities related to your field, for example, you could join volunteer work teams.
Many people think that voluntary work is unimportant and that it is a waste of time, especially at the university level where they say that the student should pay attention to his university studies only and after graduation, he can participate in volunteer work, and this is a wrong idea of course. Because in fact, these voluntary works is very useful to strengthen your communication skills and train you in the spirit of leadership and initiative before going into the job market.
It is worth noting that engaging in voluntary work at the undergraduate level will accelerate your chances of finding a job immediately after graduation.
• Make sure to use social media to build a career profile for you and to communicate with experienced people. Do not waste your time on social media just for fun and chatting. This step can bring you closer to employers and help you attract HR officials.
• Be sure to join any summer training program, even if they are unpaid programs, such programs increase your experiences and strengthen your skills needed for the job market. In addition, engaging in any training program is tantamount to going into a work experience.
• Try to build a profile for you on the LinkedIn network that includes your data, skills and experience, and you should add a good image of you that is suitable for work. You must constantly update your data.
This step brings you closer to the employers’ pages and puts you in constant knowledge of the job opportunities available for some companies that care about them.
• Try to learn how to create a strong and distinguished CV, and we talked extensively on the CV in another article entitled How to make my professional CV?.
• Also, try to easily identify the factors and reasons for the success of job interviews. Here you can ask experienced people about this topic, and you can search online.
• If you have a lot of free time and do not know what to do with it, I advise you to delve into the experience of freelancing. These days, many university students have distinguished skills in various fields such as translation, writing, programming, design, and others. You should use your skills and talents in free time positively and benefit you. Freelance work is a positive point in your resume as it is added to work experience.
As we saw in this article, the way to search for a job is long and actually begins during your undergraduate studies, so do not waste time and start from this moment until you find a suitable job opportunity for you as soon as you graduate.
