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"Hmmmm"

With graduation nearing I've started looking around for possible jobs, with only a vague idea of what I want to do.

Retail management was, until recently, my preferred option.

But then I saw something else.

What's best?

Go for the job you know you will probably have little difficulty getting, or go for the one which is harder to get but ultimately like more?

Going for both simultaneously is not possible in any way.

On the surface it seems easy - go for the one I'd like more, but realistically going for the easier one seems best.

Any advice/ideas?

I'm seeing a careers centre person next week to talk about it, but just wondered what, if anything, you lot had to say.

Retail management? That's just.....working in a shop again, surely?

http://www.shell-livewire.org/

Good site if your thinking of setting up a business.

Anyway, Good luck Bell.

I decided to go for the first option - there's always the chance to change in a few years and the experience will be useful if I do. Thanks to anyone who said anything.

I wish!

I think that running your own business has really - unless you have a unique idea - to be about something you know about and love. Eveything I could say that about - anime, games, comics etc the markets are in decline or oversubscribed anyway.

Start your own business?

Ineedsleep wrote:
> You didn't say anything about training schemes.

One's retail management training, other is a Derbyshire County Council training scheme for environmental work.

> I'd go for the one that is harder to get so that even if you don't
> get it you at least tried. Then go for the easier one. If you get
> turned down for the harder one it will not appear on your CV so no
> worries.

I guess, I'm just eager to get into a job, it's nearly a year since I left woolworths and whilst selling bits on eBay is okay whilst at Uni I want to actually get doing something when I leave, if I don't get the harder one then it means I have to wait for the next recruitment period which is September-January depending on the company.

> However, not knowing anything about training schemes, I still cannot
> understand why you cannot apply for both of them at the same time.

Because they both start at the same time!

If you go into a job you do not like you will ultimately live your life feeling empty inside. Your heart wont be in the work which is the problem for FAR too many people in their current occupations. If you have a chance of getting a job you'd like even a little then go for it. It will be well worth it in the long run.

I suggest you go for the one you really want.

I know we're not necessarily facing whole working lives in one career any more, but you've got to have a shot at dreams, and all tht clichéd stuff, right?

Imagine being in a job you didn't really want, thinking 'what if?'
Better to have at least tried for what you really want to do, IMHO.


And if you don't get it, then apply for the other job.
If they recruit only at one time of year, take a gap year, try to do something interesting. It should be fun and gives you an excuse for waiting before applying to them.

Good luck
And is it in the MI5 recruitment drive? See you at the interviews.
Now where's my Arabic linguaphone tape?
:^)

Belldandy wrote:

> Because it doesn't look great on the CV for starters, would you
> employ someone on a training scheme who is going to quite another
> one?

Yes, because the explanation that you wanting to be employed by a Company such as ourselves but had to take the other option at the time would cover it, along with a more indepth explanation of course.

You didn't say anything about training schemes.

I'd go for the one that is harder to get so that even if you don't get it you at least tried. Then go for the easier one. If you get turned down for the harder one it will not appear on your CV so no worries.

However, not knowing anything about training schemes, I still cannot understand why you cannot apply for both of them at the same time.