Surviving as a Graduate Today

When we are young, we dream of having that big job, when we gain admission into that College or University of choice, we become happy and look forward to the life after graduation. Here the life starts, we would be thrown some questions of how do we survive the aftermath of graduation, this is where our preparations before we graduates will come to play.

Let's look at the way to go in surviving as a Graduate;

• Firstly, i want to give admonition that young people or young graduates should develop and increase in their sense of responsibility generally. The young graduates should know and realise that the work that anyone will pay for must be a job that will add value to a system, you have to take time to learn the basic and get the information and knowledge from anywhere you can. The young graduates needs to braze up, buckle their shoes and develop the attitude for work that's etched in a sense of responsibility, because in the world of today, being a first class or second class upper would not save anyone from unemployment, but it's what you can do that will give you a job.

• Secondly, the young graduates must also realise is that no matter the age of graduation, you are almost too late for the labor market, if that is the first the said graduate has ever worked. We make mistakes of not engaging ourselves while we were idle before matriculating, we think all would be rosy after graduation, but after graduation we see the reality and we wish we had aquire some set skills. We look back when the reality of life after school hit us, then we start asking ourselves some questions, what did we do with those few months of holiday between primary and high school, what did we do with those long vacations, what did we do with those University strikes that we had to stay at home? Actually nothing. This should not happen to our another generations, young chaps no matter how young should engage themselves with some skills, which will help them later in life especially when it's time graduating into the labor market.

• Thirdly, a young graduates should learn how to volunteer, they must learn how to work for free sometimes even at their early age of graduation, doing this, an opportunity for job will open for them. A lot of people are too suspicious of others and they think that everybody is out there to use them, but we forget it's possible in our early days of our work-life, it's possible we will be used. A lot of people earning big today started when they were earning a very little from the job, then they tends to earn big as they progress and gain their employers trust, meanwhile, our parents should also encourage their children to work for free in some areas. Volunteering to work may not earn them a living wage but it will give the young chap a big experience that could bring a big rewarding job.

• Fourthly, the young graduates should also know that while waiting for that big dream job, they could also spend time doing what they love. I am not talking about copulating with women or drinking nor smoking here, but something that could bring a big reward later. You can love writing, painting, bringing out ideas, singing, dancing, drumming, driving or helping others, the reason is The Almighty created every one of us with something we can do and doing it without stress, so you must discover yours and learn how to do it well. If you can be perfect at it, it may turn to something you will build as a career and be earning from for yourself. Building your own personal skills without being tutored or learnt, something that comes from withing you that you can do without getting tired, I enjoin the graduates to have useful hobbies and be perfect at at it, which in turn can bring money in their way.

• Lastly, our young graduates should learn how to do things in the right way and the perfect way it should be done even without any supervision. This may sound moralistic, but the world we live in today,we may be tempted to cut corners and follow a shortcut, which as a young chap we must desist from that. In every area or corners they found themselves, they should act in a moral way and wait for that opportunity to come instead of bribing or paving their way out which may sometimes at the end cost them a lot. If you take the aforementioned ones i said earlier, you may not need to cut corners in life before you can make it or have that dream job, and it's possible that one can develop oneself in those qualities and may end up not even working for anybody and will be earning good money.

With my little inputs, i believe young graduates can survive a harsh economic climate.