As a student, it can be daunting to think about the transition from scholar to employee. After years of lectures, workshops, assessments, cooking on a budget and socialising, the leap to the workplace is often difficult to imagine.
But while you’ve been studying, you’ll have developed many qualities that make you far more employable than you may realise – think metacognition skills (that’s critical thinking), an ability to hit deadlines, and money management nous (anybody who can live on a budget of 85p a day is a financial genius). There’s more good news: due to the skills shortage, organisations are fighting for young talent. In fact, 80% of businesses are planning to hire staff in the current year, according to a survey by the recruitment company Hays.
