Succeed at your job search as a recent graduate is comparatively tough task, but possible. As a teacher and profession counselor, it is a fantastic and amazing duty to give suggestion to fresh graduate who just facing experience of joblessness. 

Attractive because fresh graduate educational require a particular approach to find a job and a set of specific methods and strategies that are partly different from other job searcher.

Fascinating, because the first acquaintance with the labor market for various fresh graduates was a shock. Because when student life is replaced by business, prospects also alter by one, and the currency form “high score” is replaced by the question:

“What professional, related work experience do you really have?”

And it can be hard to settle in right away.

“Thank you for your application. Unluckily, we have selected to go ahead with an applicant who had more experience.”

If you are a graduate looking for a job, you may get a similar denial on your application. You may have experienced the disappointment of not being considered for a vacancy that suited you both professionally and personally. There was simply no experience.

In this article, I will concentration commercial recommendation for those who have recently graduated from college and are about to get their first job. My contribution is to give you an idea of how you can creatively use facts in your job search to help you gain a grip in the job market.

Three important pieces of advice for you as a newly graduated academic

Each year, a group of more than 2,000 companies answer 35 questions that provide insight into companies’ recruiting manners and fondness.

In September 2018, our most recent Recruitment Analysis 2018 was in print, in which nearly 1,000 contributing companies gave the following three pieces of recommendation to new academia graduates:

1. Explain what your educational expertise can be used for

64% of companies believes that fresh qualified graduate should better explain what their academic expertise can be used for. In state-owned companies, he advises 69%, and in small private companies – 58%.

This is why it is slightly less important for a small private business holders to understand your academic expertise as compare to large private and public companies. In addition, small private companies insist that fresh graduated on their own initiative (40%) apply for additional vacancies, i.e. Contact companies directly and work with them to identify the need.

And that’s a vital point: the small private owner usually has a less academic-influenced culture, where a fast pace and variability is the order of the day. Thus, the commercial expertise, such as initiative, wealth of ideas and willingness for amendment, are essential features of a fresh worker in their company – and that expertise must be progressed (at least) as your academic competencies.

2. Apply largely – even non-academic jobs

38% of companies encourages academics to apply widely, as well as for non-academic positions. At this point, in fact, it is huge private companies that widely encourage the application of all new graduates of academic institutions (42%). And how do you put into practice that advice?

In your materials (resume and application) and appearance (elevator speeches), you must indicate that you want to use the professionalism gained from your studies and that you want to contribute to the existing professional community, inspired and interested workplace. Which may fluctuate from your own competence.

This is where some graduates face a fundamental difference between academic qualification and work life as they go from working with 5 years of trained experience to abruptly swell into a more general and company-oriented focus. This kind of mental shift just takes practice.

3. Communicate less academically in application and resume

36% of companies suggests that fresh graduated academics converse less academically in applications and resumes – and there is no noteworthy dissimilarity between small / large private and public companies.

A less academic style of statement in your written material needs, along with other things that you:

• Writes more expressively, simply and in an energetic language
• Present solid examples of what you write

If you are going to apply small private businesses, be attentive that they make more use of networks than announced positions. So, converse more directly with the small companies and rather call / write directly to them prior to dispatch any written material to them.

Use your academic skills in practice

As a beginner is job search, it is compulsory to estimate what your studies expertise is also known as AC competencies mean to companies. In this way you can provide a message to employer what you can do for them and where your expertise will apply in your organization.

Many academic competencies are general competencies that you have obtained during your academic education. Here are some of the general skills that, incl. Refers to solution-oriented, project-oriented and able to work independently.

Your job as a job seeker is to explain the skills so that the company recognizes their full benefits. In other words: How will you apply your expertise to develop importance for the company – and can you provide specific examples?

Definition: Capabilities are the awareness, proficiency and experience that can be interpreted into solid action. That’s why ability matters, what tasks you can do and how you can do them.

The fresh graduate come across on a daily basis and occasionally stunned that the space between studies and trade can be very bottomless. As a job searcher, you defiantly notice it as an objective to secure a job. Whereas the company or organization you are applying to think it as a goal to operate a business.

As such, it can also assist you, as a fresh graduate, go about your job search based on your pure studies skill, which is a problem solving. For the problems are different – it depends on the situation at the moment.

Understand the problem before you solve it

The same as a fresh graduated academic, it is your most precious feature among others to resolve issue. Most likely you as graduate spent years of your studies

learning the very spirit of problem resolving; namely, to recognize – and only then – to solve difficult problems.

Let us take a solid example:

You are searching for a job…

You are available, regardless of the fact that there are numbers of jobs and numbers of companies or organizations are present in which you are interesting. It is possible that you are excited one company among large numbers, may you have a chance to secure your desire job.

Despite careful work, you are constantly faced with the refusal of job for which you apply. Perhaps you’re hopeless and not sure if your application stuff is good enough, if you now have something to contribute – or something else entirely.

… And looking for it on autopilot

In the coaching of fresh graduated academics, we frequently discover that 8 out of 10 candidates apply for 2 jobs per week. Not more than this, not less than this. The cause is mostly reasonable by experiences such as completion of responsibility, and that the graduates are frightened that it may have economic cost if the number of vacancies pointed out to by the joblessness assurance fund is not applied for.

Also, as a recent graduate, it can be a barrier for you to make direct and unwanted contacts with the company due to lack of experience and training in company-oriented communication. Scores or marks are not providing for a successful job search, and you are not calculated by the field of study in which you excelled during your studies. This in itself can be nerve-wracking.

In your new life as a business profile, the need to expand and go beyond what was previously important to follow?

Would you patch a bike that was not punctured?

No, you assume (expectantly). But, what if you disbelief that the bike is punctured at all? Would you still try to patch it? (yes, the bike is a business metaphor)

You would most likely inspect the bike more narrowly to understand what you need in a particular situation and whether it is really necessary. The question is very general, but it may be reasonable to ask yourself if your company’s offer really meets real needs.

That is, whether your application responds to what the company actually demands. It is not clear whether the need is clear in a job posting – so make contact with the company and find out.

My best advice: Be curious and get the challenges defined

Your academic ability helps you understand problems before you solve them. This is i.a. This is where your logical and methodological ability take on a life of their own. One of the things that stands out and is especially attractive you as a fresh graduate of an academic school is the complication, inventiveness and ability to work with huge amounts of information.

You are a demanding worker when it comes to new solutions, as you have already solved many projects based on your high professionalism and subtle ideas about the future.

The objective, of course, is for companies to offer their workforce so that they feel they need you—not others, but you. This can result in many job seekers ruining sales and cutting back on the main task; To understand the company we are looking for.

So my best advice to you fresh out of college is to be purposeful based on your knowledge base and what your opponents may not have. The knowledge you gained from being curious, engaging in dialogue with companies, and asking various tough questions that really answer the question, “What is your problem and how can I solve it?”

Continued good job search.

Checklist – The 5 tips for the newly graduated academic

1. Burn through with your motivation

Turn on your inspiration and let it burn everything that’s already on your resume. 80% of companies are the first to open resumes, of which approximately. According to (Recruitment Analysis 2017) half of them read application if applicant resume is catchy. So, get in the game already in your resume and directly indicate what inspires you and what value you like to create in a particular company.

2. Find out what the others do not know

Whether you are applying uncalled-for or through advertised jobs, there is one simple suggestion that takes you near your desire goal as compare to your opponents. Inquire regarding the company you are applying to, and be both probing about the company past development – as well as the future of the company and the future of your mate employees. Who knows, maybe you have more awareness than the other candidates, and maybe that’s accurately what gets you through the eye of the needle. Your job is to study the company’s potential problems and see its growth potential, and then interpret that knowledge into your application and resume.

3. Search unsolicited

Unwanted searches, especially in small and medium businesses. The benefit for you is that you have no competitors, and you select what skills you want to pursue. Keep in mind that 40% of small private companies advocate that you apply without an invitation.

Fact: 40% of small private companies suppose fresh graduate should submit more invitation applications, compared to 34% overall. SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) account for approx ⅔ all Danish companies.

4. Make use of grant schemes

Offer service in subsidy schemes such as company internships and wage subsidies. If you are looking for a company internship or wage subsidy in the private sector, pay subsidies. It is a good idea to let the company know, both for you and their advantages are. Not entire small businesses are well-known with the plans.

5. Never go back empty-handed

In case you contact the company as a candidate where there is no job vacant at this time. You can inquire about whether they have information in this regard and it is real advantage. You will stun at how countless companies will ready to assist you to securing your desire job. And how many companies are interested to hear more concerning what precisely you can contribute.

Instruct yourself to observe opportunities all over the place. If you get a refusal of a job, contact the company and inquire about how I can make up my flaws. The information you may get insight into may be the wisdom that gets you nearer next time.

Konsulenthuset ballisager is a countrywide, medium-sized HR company. We have expertise in searching employees, offering career guideline and enrollment or staffing. However, our prime goal is to bring close job candidates and companies or employers. Similarly, we also offer our private career counseling, overseas spouses and “stuck workers”.