It seems to be what most young adults in my house are doing at the moment!
What do I do! Finished university last week with a degree in design, massively interested in sports, cars, being outside with a background in the leisure industry, I’m churning through career websites but I don’t know what I’m looking for!!! Humph.
I finish this week with a degree in business and accounting (although it covers HR, Project management, marketing, strategy etc...) I've arranged
a short internship with an acocuntancy firm to see if thats what will suit me, if it does great, if it doesn't I'll look elsewhere. Good
luck
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Do nothing!
It seems to be what most young adults in my house are doing at the moment!
If I could do it all again...
LINKY
[Edited on 24/5/10 by scootz]
no offence but i wouldnt employ anyone who has a degree but no real world experience in their qualification...i have worked with too many graduates
who think they know what they are doing, but are complete idiots.....and they all want top dolla payments.....
still, good luck....may be worth trying places such as mclaren motorsport?
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Originally posted by boggle
no offence but i wouldnt employ anyone who has a degree but no real world experience in their qualification...i have worked with too many graduates who think they know what they are doing, but are complete idiots.....and they all want top dolla payments.....
still, good luck....may be worth trying places such as mclaren motorsport?
Go find an agency that can post you somewhere... upload your cv to Monster or Jobrapido and you'll get calls and emails for whatever your looking for.
If I was doing it all again I would spend a lot longer deciding what I wanted to do, then put a plan in place to achieve it, rather than just seeing
what job I could get that looked OK.
Stu
I wanted to do car design, but at the interview at coventry uni,I argued with the interviewer as he made the general statement that the original mini was a poor design. I thought he wanted me to argue for the mini ....apparently not. Did mechanical engineering instead.
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Originally posted by Lightning
I wanted to do car design, but at the interview at coventry uni,I argued with the interviewer as he made the general statement that the original mini was a poor design. I thought he wanted me to argue for the mini ....apparently not. Did mechanical engineering instead.
try learn this.
do you want chips with that ???
lol
seriously do something you want to do. dont end up 50 and wondering what ever happened.
sounds like someone has been crossed by a graduate,
Lol, if you dont give them jobs how do they learn then?
Mate go round motorsport firms and beg for internships you would find one.
i have a mate who has for the past few years worked at Le mans. he's mainly driven trucks, then been the man that fetches the wheels etc. but his
point was that jobs like that are quite hard to fill. as soon as blokes settle down they often dont want to spend weeks on end away from home.
i'd contact all the le mans teams, expecially the smaller privateers as a general dogsbody, offer to sleep on the garage floor and buy your own
chips/take your oen overalls etc. would be great experience, and you'll get to meet lots of other folk involved in motorsport the motor industry
in general.
try the classic too if all else fails.
paul
i finished BEng motorsport engineering last week. i'm going back to do a masters in mechanical engineering.
got a summer job at cummins where i was on placement for summer
tom
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Originally posted by femster87
sounds like someone has been crossed by a graduate,
Lol, if you dont give them jobs how do they learn then?
Mate go round motorsport firms and beg for internships you would find one.
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Originally posted by boggle
no offence but i wouldnt employ anyone who has a degree but no real world experience in their qualification...i have worked with too many graduates who think they know what they are doing, but are complete idiots.....and they all want top dolla payments.....
still, good luck....may be worth trying places such as mclaren motorsport?
but like most graduates that can't do a good time served engineer's job, most time served engineers can't do the job of a good
graduate.
as always, the bad ones spoil it for the good ones. now i have to go do a masters to prove that i'm one of the good ones
tom
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Originally posted by scootz
If I could do it all again...
LINKY
[Edited on 24/5/10 by scootz]
There is your dream job.
http://www.renaultf1.com/spip.php?page=rubrique&id_rubrique=162
If you get it, I want free tickets to all European races and also a complete outfit in XXL.
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Originally posted by Confused but excited.
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Originally posted by scootz
If I could do it all again...
LINKY
[Edited on 24/5/10 by scootz]
I'm noticing a recurrent theme to your career choices scootz. You appear to want to shoot people for a living.
Nice work if you can get it.
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Originally posted by cadebytigerVery much depends on the trade - I don't think you will find many self taught nuclear physicists
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Originally posted by indykid
but like most graduates that can't do a good time served engineer's job, most time served engineers can't do the job of a good graduate.
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Originally posted by flak monkey
You can only officially be an engineer with an appropriate 'profressional' qualification. That normally being at a minimum a degree in your chosen specialism.
Another thing, Swanny;
Rolls Royce and Mercedes Daimler select their graduates through a rigourous selection programme, who are contracted to complete their graduateship or
forfeit the costs.
Balfour Beatty have the same but with 'Management' Graduates and trainees. My experience of this is that the ones that have come from the
tools have a greater understanding of people management and what reality is on the ground rather than what the business philosophy says it should look
like.
Personally, i dont think companies focus enough attention on the "Practical" elements of Graduateships or Manager development. Ive had my
share of run-in's which is why i feel confident enough to share my veiws.
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Most people who call themselves engineers are actually technicians. If you are an apprentice trained machinist or toolroom worker you are actually a technician not an engineer.