So welcome back to my channel guys. It's the 9th of May
and I'm here to give you an update on
the placement situation and give you some advice on how to deal
with rejection, how to deal specifically with job rejections
and how to deal with disappointment if your plans don't go the way
you wanted them to. So without further ado
let's actually just rewind back to the beginning of this whole placement journey
and I will show you what kind of things I went through, interview processes
and I also give you a few tips. So let's go.
I am getting ready for my Skype interview.
That's going to be exciting and I'll update you guys afterwards and how it went.
So the interview went well I think.
The next steps in the process is to write a
blog post and a Facebook ad. It might be different for you,
every company has a different recruitment process but make sure to ask
after the interview what are the next steps if they don't
volunteer that information themselves, just so you're both on the same page and you
know what's coming up.
So basically I got an email this morning
saying that for the placement they changed the
criteria and they weren't looking for an intern anymore, they were looking for a
full-time marketing person. So I guess
the job search continues but it's okay. It's a bit annoying because
that job would have been absolutely perfect: it was paid, it was in London,
it's a marketing internship, it ticked all the boxes but maybe it was a
little bit too good to be true. So yeah the placement search continues.
It has been a hot minute since the last clip I recorded. It is now the 23rd of
March and I'm still applying for placements.
I haven't got one yet and this is the reality of things.
Sometimes you just don't get one straight away. Amidst all this
crazy coronavirus stuff I'm not home and
obviously this means that companies aren't going to be
as active and looking for employees and things but with all
of that said I'm still going to keep looking and still keep going,
so this is just a reminder to you that if you're struggling, if you are feeling like
you're not going to get one don't worry, it's not a matter of if, it's just
when, you just got to keep giving in applications and that's what I've just
been doing between the last clip and now.
So I thought I would give you a little
insight on how I tend to look for my placements. Obviously
this is different for everyone and you might
have a different way but I like to start on Linkedin just because
I find it's a lot more organised than a lot of
traditional job search sites that you can get
and you can search jobs that you want. I have
searched marketing intern a lot because that is the placement that I'm looking
for and for marketing I have looked at
Campaign which is a website which is really good for marketing
and they have a list of the top 100 marketing agencies which I have just
been combing through and sending applications to all of them. But yeah
whatever sector you're looking for there has to be some sort of list of
the best companies for them. So that's another great way to look
for placements.
So I had a one-way video
interview that I'm going to show on the screen now because I didn't record it
earlier, I don't know why. But anyway I just had to go on the
website and record myself answering the questions
that they'd ask, for example 'what are your
career goals?' 'What's your experience?' 'Introduce yourself', things like that and
I had max 2 minutes to answer the questions
and then you had to click next and then just submit it. I just heard
back from them and they said they'd be interested to go to the second stage
which is an actual online Skype interview
I imagine, so I'm going to keep you updated.
So welcome back to the present moment. I hope you enjoyed a little whirlwind
tour of the past of my application journey.
So if you don't know already I am studying sociology at the University of
Bath and if you want more sociology
videos by the way just comment below, let me know,
and I've got a few requests from you guys asking for those things.
But let me talk a little bit more about my original plans.
My original plans were to go on a marketing placement because that's what
I'm into, I love social media, all that kind of stuff
and I just thought a marketing placement in London would be
perfect for me because I'm based in London and it would be really easy to
commute, I could live at home, no renting expenses, all
that kind of stuff which is amazing and that was be my original plan
before going back to uni. Now obviously that isn't happening.
I am going to go back to final year.
Some worries I had about not getting a placement I guess was
actually more the practical side of it. Even though I was
disappointed with the fact that I'd been telling everyone I'm going to be
going on placement, I'm going to be in London for a year, but
then now that's all gone out the window.
and in my mind I know that there's nothing I can do about that.
So what I was more worried about was that it's now May so when am I going to find
a house? All my friends I know have either gotten
a placement or they knew they were going back to uni so they already had
a place to live for the year. That was definitely one of my concerns.
Also how was I going to pick my optional units? How was I
going to prepare for my dissertation? How was I going to
switch courses? So I'm going to give you a brief rundown of how all of that is
happening right now and if you are going through the same
thing, if you are considering doing the same thing and you're at Bath
then listen up. What I had to do to switch
courses was first of all I just emailed my course administrator and they
just did a bit of admin and switched me back on the three-year course. Fun fact,
I was actually on the three-year course before I switched
onto the placement course so that was actually pretty easy.
I did it overnight and I was able to choose my optional units
after the course admin contacted academic registry
so that I could choose my upcoming units and so that was very easy.
In terms of finding housing I am still in the process of
that. My old housemate is actually in the same position as me so
it was actually quite good to just chat about our plans and
map out a rough plan of how we're going to find housemates.
Dealing with disappointment and dealing with rejection is really big thing
and if you want to know more tips go to the link
in the description to find a blog post about this that will be up
very soon if not already. Most of the time we just feel like
it's got something to do with us and our worth but actually
it's got nothing to do that and like I say it's
nothing personal because if anything, imagine if you got that
job that you got rejected from and you figured out that you don't actually
like it. So I view rejection as redirection and at
the end of the day it's all about your perspective, it's all about
how you see things.
Thinking about going to
final year is crazy. In a year's time I'm going to
be graduating and I never thought that was going to happen.
But now that we are here and that's happening and I can't do anything to
change it. Hopefully this update was useful
for you and if you have any questions or anything just let me know. Comment
below or just message me on Instagram. Oh and I forgot to
say if there are any topics that you want me to talk about
definitely comment below because I am totally open to your suggestions
and I would love to know what kind of things that you want me to talk about so
comment below. Otherwise hope you guys are doing well,
staying safe, staying at home and I will catch up with you soon.