In the current environment for recent university graduates, finding a job in which your degree is suitable is quite difficult. By choosing certain degrees, you can hugely effect the likelihood of finding a suitable job. With a large portion of university students attending university for courses without direct job opportunities, this is quite a big problem for the country. If you choose to study a course like medieval literature, then the professional opportunities created by that are severely lessened. You may need to take a job which is only loosely related to it. Choosing a degree with a broad subject matter, like a writing course, or mathematics, can greatly increase your chances of finding a job with your degree. You may need to accept a position which doesn’t closely relate to your degree, but you can still gain some benefit from having a degree. One issue with taking a position in an unskilled profession is that the longer you stay out of a relevant position, the less value the degree holds.

As an individual, it can be quite difficult to distinguish yourself from the rest of the pack. Self promotion can be a very helpful tool in this, able to accomplish what working hard in your profession may not be able to do by itself. It has the potential to be able to help you find and get jobs which, perhaps, might have failed to notice you from among the rest of the pack. Showing that you are prepared to do the extra work to establish yourself as an expert will help you in virtually every professional setting. Basic self promotion involves using social interfaces, such as facebook and twitter in order establish your abilities, qualifications, and professional history. LinkedIn is the most useful social media website you can use in this regard. Doing self promotion provides you with another avenue for reaching potential employers. Having resources available outside of the norm, can give you a significant advantage over your competition, which predominately rely solely on referrals and CV’s.