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Originally Posted by JohnP
Congratulations!
At the risk of sounding negative there are many unemployed or severely under employed people out there - even with masters degrees.
I would strongly advise you to do two things.
1) Get relevant experience while you're in school. Even if you have to volunteer, you need experience. Masters with no experience just means fancy letters behind your name and student debt.
2) Network with alumni. You want to know as many people as possible who will care about you and your well being that are in position to help you. So join the alumni association and try to meet with as many people as possible. Meet with them, talk about their experience since graduation, and find out what they've done to be successful. People love to talk about themselves so let them. As they get to know you're a good person they can help you when you are ready to move into a career job.
This is really good advice. I see a lot of kids in my major (health service administration) only taking classes and not doing much else. While focusing in school is important, networking I think is just as important.
I would suggest finding a mentor. I found one and she's helping me heaps.
It's probably the best free service there is and usually people are very willing to do it.
That said, congrats!!! It's always nice getting an acceptance letter
mimsyborogoves , 05-02-2013 08:51 PM
