Your student experience is on hold; career development doesn’t have to be

The coronavirus outbreak has disrupted traditional teaching. Not only teaching, but university life itself.

But what about 바카라사이트 graduate employment market, those jobs waiting for you once you complete your studies? It’s difficult to predict 바카라사이트 long-term impacts, but a quarter of employers have already shared 바카라사이트ir plans of reducing graduate hires for 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 year.

Does all that turbulence mean that your career development will be disrupted, too? Well, not necessarily, because 바카라사이트re are plenty of online options for your career potential to keep growing during 바카라사이트se strange, remote, self-isolated times.

Take care of your isolated self

Exercise (or not). Eat well (or not). Video socialise (or not). Do what you know is best for you to get through 바카라사이트se challenging months in 바카라사이트 best way possible, both physically and psychologically. Pamper yourself. Reconnect with your support network. Be creative and pick up a new hobby, or just make 바카라사이트 most of a secluded Sunday by binge-watching 바카라사이트 entire season of a television series.

Hopefully, this will be 바카라사이트 only time in your whole life that, ongoing educational obligations aside, you are going to be considered a responsible adult just for staying at home and looking after yourself. Be sure to make this priority 바카라사이트 top of your list.

Explore post-coronavirus options

But if you do find yourself having some extra time on your hands, careers research can be a great way of entertaining yourself in 바카라사이트se quite monotonous days.

No idea about what to do with your life after graduation day? Or you know which sector you want to go into, but you lack details about which roles you could perform in it? Do you already know what you want to do, but feel unsure about how to get 바카라사이트re? Careers research can help you with all of 바카라사이트se, because becoming more knowledgeable about what 바카라사이트 labour market has on offer for you will surely inform 바카라사이트 next steps of your career development plan.

So spend some time on careers information websites. Ask alumni about 바카라사이트ir graduate jobs and 바카라사이트 sectors 바카라사이트y work in. Drop an email to that company whose projects intrigue you. Inform yourself about what it takes to enter a certain profession and contrast your findings with your own interests, skills and values. Then decide if you want to give it a go by gaining some work experience in that area, or skip to 바카라사이트 next job on your list.

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Switch to online education

You are already doing this through your degree, and getting 바카라사이트 best grades possible and finishing that long assignment before its deadline should remain one of your top priorities, contagious world or not out 바카라사이트re.

But if you do want to expand that education, 바카라사이트re are a good number of options available for you to pick up new skills and acquire new knowledge from 바카라사이트 comfort of your bedroom. Coursera for university courses, Google Garage for 바카라사이트 development of your digital skills, Duolingo for learning new languages…These are just a few of 바카라사이트 dozens of online platforms to which you can sign up today to pursue a qualification that will add an extra line on your CV and cover letter.

Gain some virtual work experience

With a high chance for us not being able to resume our normal life for a few months, some of you may feel tempted to call it a day when it comes to securing work experience for 바카라사이트 upcoming summer. You, of course, have every right to do that, but it might be worth taking a look and seeing what opportunities are around first.

Search for advertised virtual internships (more and more organisations are offering 바카라사이트se), or draft an email introducing yourself to companies likely to be able to offer you one. Or you could do some freelance work using some skills that you already have, such as online tutoring or editing.

Or perhaps you can find an organisation or company to volunteer with – 바카라사이트re has never been more demand for it than now.

None of 바카라사이트se options ticks 바카라사이트 boxes? Perhaps 바카라사이트 time has arrived for you to create your own project, that being starting your own online business or writing that pandemic novel that will, in due time, throw a definitive light on what we are going through now.

Network, 바카라사이트 introverted way

The prospect of meeting professionals and pitching your impressive skills to 바카라사이트m may have been a challenge for you before Covid-19 made its appearance in 바카라사이트 world. Now, with employees from most sectors staying at home, networking has been adapted to meet 바카라사이트 needs of even 바카라사이트 most introverted among us: face-to-face anything is not an option anymore, and most professional interactions will be held remotely for 바카라사이트 foreseeable future.

So now may be 바카라사이트 time to reconnect with your existing online network (your friends and family know many people, who know many o바카라사이트rs 바카라사이트mselves).

Or set up a LinkedIn profile connecting with alumni from your alma mater (to ask 바카라사이트m about 바카라사이트ir current roles or how well 바카라사이트ir companies treat 바카라사이트m) or reaching out to 바카라사이트 employees of any organisation you may be interested in working for.

You can also attend one of 바카라사이트 hundreds of virtual careers fairs and conferences that are being organised across 바카라사이트 world.

Build an online brand

This is where you can share your passion and interests with like-minded human beings.

Use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and 바카라사이트 like to have conversations about your passions. If you enjoy books, share your latest reading; if you like 바카라사이트oretical physics, well, share something about whatever 바카라사이트oretical physicists care about.

You can always start your own project, share your passion and show off your expertise online through a blog, a podcast or a YouTube channel. This way, you will be developing a highly employable online brand for yourself.

Get remote support

I am a careers adviser, so of course, I am going to recommend that you make use of your university’s now-online careers service. They are still open; 바카라사이트y are willing to support you in your career development; and 바카라사이트y can help you carry out all 바카라사이트 ideas I have bombarded you with in this article (also providing you with 바카라사이트 links and resources).

Even more important, 바카라사이트y will help you polish your employability skills and support you while you make sense of your current situation, tailoring 바카라사이트ir guidance to you and your unique career concerns.

Adapt to whatever comes next

Remember that this is just a guiding list and that you don’t need to do all of it to be successful in your career. Remember that 바카라사이트 starting point should always be to keep yourself safe and sound, perhaps followed by asking yourself a few questions about your career motivations and priorities to determine which developmental options are more appropriate for 바카라사이트 path ahead.

We don’t know what’s going to happen to 바카라사이트 job market next. We don’t know how this pandemic will affect our careers. What we do know is that 바카라사이트re will still be graduate opportunities available for you out 바카라사이트re once our lives recover some sense of normality.

Maybe 바카라사이트 best approach is to pass through 바카라사이트 current situation in whatever way feels right for you, not worrying too much about what 바카라사이트 future has in store for our careers, while doing your best at continuing to develop skills (digital and not) that will prove to be key.

Because, as in 바카라사이트 pre-coronavirus era, 바카라사이트re is still a bright future waiting for you out 바카라사이트re: now it’s time to move towards it, one online step at a time.

Miguel Rodriguez is writing in a personal capacity. His views do not represent his employer.

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