{"id":14387,"date":"2015-05-22T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:00:08","slug":"whats-next-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/05\/22\/whats-next-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s next for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\"lina-abdulhalim\"<\/a>My best friend told me a long time ago that \u201cuncertainty is the future\u2019s guarantee\u201d – and it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the middle of May, and I\u2019m in my final term. I\u2019m gearing up to start shooting my Master\u2019s production project but at the back of my head, I worry about my career prospects. I\u2019m not as worried as I was before I started this programme though \u2013 I managed to have a career without a Bachelor\u2019s Degree when I was back in Kuala Lumpur, and with this MA I\u2019m fairly confident I\u2019ll land a job.<\/p>\n

Send your CV out quick<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was told never to wait until the last minute to start doing this. I have about 3 months of school left, give or take, and in all honesty, it\u2019s probably a good time for me to start sending out my CV. Just because you won\u2019t be called back immediately, doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re off their radar completely. Speaking from experience, I\u2019ve received calls for job offers from companies I\u2019ve sent my CV to a year before. You\u2019ll always be in their system.<\/p>\n\"Lina-CV\"<\/a>\n

Work Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

Snap up any work experience you can. I stand by the saying \u201cevery little bit counts.\u201d And this is no different. Ideally, it should be something related to the industry you\u2019re going to go into, but organisational and social skills are equally as important.<\/p>\n

Networking<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be bold. I\u2019ve always been pretty bad when it comes to networking, because I am generally very shy (I\u2019m not joking). I get nervous; worried I\u2019ll say the wrong things. Lately I\u2019ve been a little better at it. Coming to BU actually helped me with that. I\u2019ve learned to speak better and become more approachable. So yeah, be bold, and be brave.<\/p>\n\"networking-lina\"<\/a>\n

I am not going to sugar coat anything \u2013 the world is a terrifying place and it\u2019s hard. And it won\u2019t stop being hard but what you and I can do is just enjoy every ride, and take the little victories.<\/p>\n

By Lina Abdul Halim<\/strong><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My best friend told me a long time ago that \u201cuncertainty is the future\u2019s guarantee\u201d – and it\u2019s true. It\u2019s the middle of May, and I\u2019m in my final term. I\u2019m gearing up to start shooting my Master\u2019s production project but at the back of my head, I worry about my career prospects. I\u2019m not… Read more » about What\u2019s next for me?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,130,48,785,2008,108,1396,2186],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-international-student","tag-lina-abdulhalim","tag-media-school","tag-networking","tag-postgraduate-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}