2. Before Univeristy begins
• Provide better financial management and business education to children
• Truly help younger students understand, define and plan what they want to do with their
lives
• Provide collaborative exercises in schools for children to solve real world problems as part of
a team
• Enable kids to experience more of the work environment through planned days and
experiences
• Encourage kids to get a paper route and consider alternative ideas and thinking outside the
box, such as sourcing papers from the wholesaler rather than working for the shop
• Get younger students to interview their parents and review their jobs and how they got to
that point in their lives
• Encourage them to create a plan moving forward of what they want to achieve
• Build students confidence, by engaging them and asking how they want to learn or even
teach others
• Run lessons where kids start and manage their own businesses
• Change the traditional next step school question from “what do you want to study” to
“where do you want to be in 10 years time and how will you get there”
3. Before finishing university
• Career sessions/ days with prospective employers to expose students to the type of role
that they may want
• Interview sessions with previous graduates who are matched to students based on
criteria such as what the student wishes to do
• At the beginning of University outlining to people the potential career their course is
leading them to, different levels of study and career searching are too separated in silos
• Entrepreneurial and financial classes included earlier on in the school system so people
can see and understand the potential of starting out on your own
• A wider range of internships for students through out their university career rather than
a single placement
• Students should be expected to find work in the summer around a subject that interests
them to demonstrate their determination
• Student should be able to study a different course for 1 week every year to give them a
taste of other opportunities and ideally reaffirm the reasons they choose their course
• More innovation and inspiration based aspects within the curriculum, forcing the
students to consider different alternatives and perspectives
• Draw on the experience of previous graduates and industry experts to create a
database of information for students to draw upon
• Create incubators within university to develop the ideas of those wishing to be
entrepreneurial and take their own path
4. Upon graduation
• The government should provide students with guidance and short formal training
on how best to write CV’s and interview
• More internship schemes for young and determined individuals should be
available in companies, experience is essential
• Access to jobs should be a more social exercise, utilising the digital tools available
• Bright graduates with great ideas should be made aware of the many different
types of support and development for startups by incorporating small lectures into
the leaving package
• Inform more graduates of the potential opportunities on a global level
• Create a communication channel for graduates to communicate directly with the
relevant people for international opportunities
• Help students create a plan to work towards, whether it is a 2 or 5 year plan, and
then make them consider how to work back from that point to realise their path
• Connect graduates with similar and complimenting interests to help them work as
a team to find the right roles or start something for themselves, stop them
competing in vain
• Provide opportunities for students to undertake extra curricular activities outside
of their studies to expand their portfolio of experience
5. During transition
• Organise extra learning and group hang outs, similar to hack days or online lessons around business
and marketing techniques
• Help graduates learn how to market themselves properly to the right individuals
• Revolutionise the recruitment industry to be run by the people with the skills they are looking for
• Improve the support structure provided by universities for new graduates
• Provide a ‘big brothers/sister’ type figure who is currently working in a similar role to that person
dream position
• Encourage people looking for work by providing volunteering roles in exciting and stimulating
environments exposing them to new opportunities while keeping them fresh
• Incase awareness around the large variety of apprenticeships available beyond the modern day to
day ‘become a builder’ model
• Create employer and potential employee speed dating events for a range of different industry
sectors
• Encourage employers to create more internships to create a more solid wealth of experience
among the next generation
• Enable new starters to learn from the positive experience of those around them but also
understand their mistakes and the important learnings from those as well
• Enable and encourage migration between cities, to expand horizons and drive graduates to
locations where the work they seek may be available
6. First year
• Provide reviews of both the individuals life goals and 5 year plan to confirm the direction they are
headed
• Provide reviews of their finances to help them better manage themselves maintain a suitable level
of living
• Provide more guidance around how to manage finances and breaking commercialised and debt
focused habits
• Express the danger of debt and the impact it has on a persons financial future and therefore career
management/expectations
• Collect that persons experiences to feed into a database for up coming fellow graduates
• Create digital content such as videos on a YouTube channel of interviews with employers,
employees and there experiences
• Build a webpage similar to property finder sites that shows the current states of the job market,
broken down by sector and jobs within your local area
• Create a social media platform specifically for graduates looking for work, for peer reviews,
guidance and awareness of jobs in the market, working on the idea of collaboration rather than
competition
• Build a platform that enables them to help their friends and new graduates find work
• Curate the best attention grabbing methods undertaken by the truly inspirational graduates to get
their dream job, for example wearing billboard outlining your skills by the businesses you want to
work for to inspire the next group
7. Big ideas
Give students the opportunity to study another course for a
week:
The choices of course and the limited time to make the choice can be
overwhelming. I think expanding a students horizon and enabling them to see
what else is out there can reaffirm there choices or even open a new doorway
that may not have considered.
8. Big ideas
Build a video recruiting platform:
Enabling students to create impact, express their
strengths and personalities through a medium richer
than pen and paper. First impressions are important
and a picture is worth a thousand words.
9. Big ideas
Job interview speed dating:
Create employer and potential employee speed dating
events for a range of different industry sectors, to get
people exposure talking to the right people and making
the right connections.
