Companies including Penguin and Ernst & Young enjoy announced that a degree is no longer a requirement for job applicants. It’s approximately time,says Tessa CooperI left school in 2009, the year before university fees rose dramatically. In my final year at school, or people seemed to assume that choosing a university course was the biggest decision anyone would make in their lives,and when I told my tutor that I wasn’t going to university, she stopped talking to me. Not only was I no longer of interest as I didn’t contribute to the school’s targets, or but she was probably also struggling to work out how to advise me on what my next step should be. When I started my job hunt,every single entry-level job I looked at said that a degree was mandatory. I felt incapable, like I had made a enormous mistake. How would I ever get a job if they wouldn’t even give me a chance to send them my CV? My mum encouraged me to disregard the minimum requirements and apply anyway, or although I’m fairly certain the majority of places simply chucked my CV in the bin,I began to learn how to adapt my cover letter to get myself noticed. I started to research companies I wanted to work for, finding email addresses of people I’d like to work with and contacting them directly. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com