- You used to make videos at Warwick Uni right?
You're a bit washed up right now, I'm not gonna lie.
You haven't posted in like four months.
What's going on though?
What's life like after uni?
Have you got a job?
Like, you know, these are all questions that
I'm sure that your subscribers want to know, right?
You should probably make a video.
Tell everyone what's going on.
- Yeah, you're right.
I mean, probably should make a video talking about that.
Do you want to know what life's like after uni?
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So to answer that question short and really
quickly for you right now, where have I been
for the last four months.
One, job hunting trying to get a job out of uni.
Two, I had really bad acne like out of nowhere,
I had really bad adult acne and it just kept getting worse
and worse and worse.
I've spent so much money, hundreds and hundreds of pounds
on skincare products to fix my skin.
Nothing really fixed it and just kept
getting worse and worse and worse to the point
where I didn't really want to post on YouTube anymore.
I was that person watching every single YouTube video.
You name it, on hormonal acne, bacteria, acne,
fungal acne like I was trying everything to get
rid of my acne myself.
Went to a doctor, first time it didn't work.
Went to a doctor again, second time it's actually
starting to work.
You know, I'm not someone with perfect skin,
I've still got quite a few scars and a few
small pimples on my face at the moment.
But if you are someone really suffering with acne
and you wanna know how to kind of sort out your acne
or what I did to sort out my acne,
DM me on Instagram, send me a message there.
I respond to you there.
And if enough people are asking me, I'll make a whole
video on it because bro, acne is horrible.
And it really knocked my confidence, especially
with the whole social media thing and posting
pictures of my face all the time 'cause it just kept
getting worse and worse and worse.
On top of that, I was job hunting.
So I was going to interviews, going to assessment centers
to start and low key I'm genuinely going to say this yeah,
but low key, I think the fact that loads of spots on my face
actually impacted my ability to get job offers.
Yeah man, my confidence was gone.
I didn't want to post because of that reason.
Like I said before, I was job hunting, I was going through
the whole process of getting a job.
Long story short, I've two job offers now
and I'm starting a new role in like two weeks from now.
So I've kind of got a few weeks now to make YouTube videos.
I'll talk you through that whole process now.
Now let's backtrack six months ago or seven months ago
to when I graduated.
Why didn't I have a job out of uni?
What was my thought process of getting a job?
What did I want to do after uni?
So essentially like what was my life after uni
gonna be like until I got a job?
So the best way to kind of describe this is actually
through a to do list.
I kind of had a list of goals that I wanted to achieve.
So during my final year of uni, unfortunately your boy went
and copped meningitis.
I had a brain infections.
I was really, really far behind at work.
Obviously applying for grad schemes and applying for grad
jobs just wasn't even on my mind at the time.
I just really wanted to like firm my degree, get 2:1
I would try and get a first if I could in my final year,
and just come out of uni with fricking degree grade
that I was happy with.
So now I've graduated from uni.
I have no job.
I have a 2:1 in my degree from Warwick Uni.
Like what do I do now?
I wasn't even bothered that I didn't have a job.
Like I literally, you gotta bear in mind that
this is my thought process, right?
I almost died in my final year of uni.
Literally I almost died from a brain infection.
I didn't care about getting a job straight away.
It just wasn't high priority for me.
I kind of just wanted to do something that
I enjoyed for a little bit.
So the first thing on my to do list.
The first thing I wanted to do when I came out of uni,
like before I even applied to jobs, or even thought about
any of that kind of stuff.
I wanted to get 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.
When I graduated from uni, I had like 3K subs
on this channel.
So I was around like July time I think or June time,
something like that.
So for like six weeks or about two months,
I just banged out making YouTube videos.
I made as many videos as I possibly could
on the topic of university story time, advice videos,
just anything I could possibly be doing it at the time.
I just made videos about it.
And then, I think it was by the end of September,
I had reached 10,000 subscribers on my channel.
So a massive growth after graduating from uni,
from like 3K to 10K in such a short period of time.
My goal was to hit 10K subs before the year ended.
So before December time.
So I ended up achieving the first thing in my to do list
pretty quick, right 10K subs.
There was momentum on my channel,
like my channel was growing at a healthy rate.
Like what did I want to do next?
So at this point I kind of reached a crossroad.
I was thinking, shall I keep making YouTube videos
and try and like snowball this growth as quick as possible
to try and reach the next milestone
which would have been 100,000 subscribers
or should I take a break from YouTube
and dedicate myself to job applications because obviously
grad schemes and those kind of graduate jobs have
deadlines, when you should apply for them
because there's a whole application process
that you have to follow.
Around October time, a lot of my friends were going
back to university for their final years,
like fourth year or master students doing post grad
or people were starting their new graduate jobs.
So I was kind of just like, okay, now what do I do?
Do I just keep making YouTube videos and make this my job
or do I apply for grad schemes?
'Cause that was like the next logical thing to do.
So that's kinda what I did.
So this was kind of a problem for me actually
because I wasn't too sure on what grad scheme
exactly to apply for.
A lot of my friends were going into consulting,
a lot of my friends went into finance.
I've always been interested in marketing
and the whole creative side of business that's
why I thought I'd be most inclined to do after uni.
I wasn't too sure what I wanted to do, but at the same time
I had a lot of time to think about it and that was kind
of a good thing, that was kind of almost
a good thing of not having the job at uni
and being in the situation I was in
in that I could just take a step back,
reflect, talk to people, network,
chat with people who were in jobs that I potentially
would wanna be in and kind of find out from them
like if they think it's worth it, if I should actually
apply to the jobs.
So that was kind of step two on my to do list.
I was trying to work out what role or what grad scheme
do I want to apply for out of uni.
I spoke to lots of people who are currently
on grad schemes at companies.
I spoke to people you know, 10 years older than me
who are currently in jobs, network with them on LinkedIn.
I'll pop them questions, emailing people.
I'd even messaged people who I've met like one time
at a party and I have them on Snapchat now, but
I saw they did an internship at a certain company
or something and I messaged them and asked them,
you know, "What do you think of the company?
"What's the application process like?
"Can I have a short 10 minute phone call
"with you or something?"
I'd say like 95% of the time people were happy
to have a phone call and they'd let me know
like what life was like at that company,
what the process was like and they just answer any questions
I had at the time.
So that was really good.
I made sure to always write down notes from every single
phone call I had with these people.
Just to really work out exactly what I wanted to do.
So long story short, I probably did that for a few weeks.
Just calling people, meeting with people just to really work
out exactly what I wanted to do.
This is something that you could do when you're at uni.
Just go to networking events and just meet people like that.
Go to quiz fairs, talk to people there.
Obviously I didn't really do too much of them
in my final year I kind of missed out on that.
There's kind of two opinions on this.
Some people say just apply for any job, just get anything
you can of uni and then once you work out what
you wanna do, once you have a bit of experience,
it's easier to move into something else.
The other opinion that some people have is that,
your first job is really important in setting up
your next job, which is important in setting up
your next job, which kind of funnels your career.
Like a lot of people end up stuck in a role
and they wanna get out of it somehow.
And they ended up doing like a masters or post grad
education or they end up doing an internship
like midway through their career.
I ended up deciding marketing is what I wanted to do.
So step three was all about applying for grad schemes.
I'm not gonna go too deep in detail on like the whole
grad scheme application process and advice
for people applying for grad schemes.
'cause I could literally make a whole another video
on that topic.
So basically what I did next was I created
an Excel spreadsheet and I just inputted any
good company that I saw, any company that interests me
that had a marketing grad scheme or even a graduate role,
that was on offer.
And I literally put them into this spreadsheet.
And I also wrote down when the deadline for the application
for that grad scheme was.
So I ended up having around 25 or 30 companies
on that Excel sheet of companies to apply to.
I didn't apply to all of them but I applied to
as many as I could.
I ended up getting accepted onto quite
a few assessment centers, which is like the final stage
before you receive an offer, you go to the company
like to their headquarters or to one of their offices.
You have an assessment day where there's like, I don't know,
anywhere between six to 30 other candidates who are also
fighting for the same job, the same graduate job
at that company.
Probably about 80% of all the assessment centers I went to
were at big well established companies.
You know, that've been doing grad schemes for over 20 years,
really well established grad schemes at these companies
and the remaining 20% were smaller companies,
who were just doing grad schemes for like the first time.
Or they were just trying to get on one new grad
on a grad scheme at the company.
You've probably heard a few people say this before but
it's genuinely a numbers game.
Just keep going, just keep pushing,
keep getting assessment centers and eventually
one's gonna pay off.
I started applying for grad schemes between
November to December time and I was kind of just
like focusing on that.
So I knew for a fact that I wanted to work in marketing.
After attending quite a few assessment centers at
tech companies, I decided that tech was 100%
the industry that I wanted to work in.
Or if I'm not gonna work in tech right now,
I will be working in tech in a few years time from now.
Just what excites me is the industry that I wanna work in.
So come January time I decided that's it,
I'm going 100% with job applications.
I just want to get some experience.
Marketing is all about experience.
So I knew by this point I just wanted experience.
I started applying for any marketing role
that I thought would be a good experience for me
and I could learn a lot from and I could
have an impact at that company.
So come January time,
I'm just going 100% with job interviews.
I'm interviewing at places, just by coincidence I want
to point this out, just by coincidence around this time,
my skin started clearing up
because I started taking this new
acne medication and the spots on my face were going down.
I just wanna say that, you know, just add that in here.
Next thing I know, I get a job offer from a company.
So I started working at this company.
Obviously I'm really happy.
Finally got a job in marketing.
Finally getting experience in marketing.
I enjoyed the role.
I really liked the people I was working with at the company.
But I knew the industry that this company was in wasn't
where I wanted to be long term.
It just didn't excite me as much as a tech company did.
Like I went to all those assessment centers
at tech companies, you know, I'll just name a few right now
just so you can have a better idea of where interviewed at.
Vodafone, Virgin Media were two tech companies
I thought was so sick.
Like obviously it's telecoms tech, but still tech.
So I started working at this company.
I'm loving it, getting some marketing experience.
I'm only there for a short period of time.
And then I receive an offer from a tech company,
which I interviewed at a few weeks prior.
They finally got back to me.
The company is a Unicorn tech company.
So like, honestly, I didn't have to think about it too much.
I just accepted the offer.
I knew that company was perfectly aligned, the job there
was perfectly aligned with where I want to take my career.
So yeah, that brings you guys up to date.
I'm due to start at this new company in two weeks
time from now.
So the start of March, I've got two weeks now,
just to make loads of YouTube videos,
so honestly, any video ideas you have, comment down below,
DM me on Instagram.
Just let me know where your video ideas are
and I will try my best to make them now.
So besides some job hunting, besides from becoming
a pepperoni pizza, like getting spots all over my face,
what have I been doing?
I've been doing some personal development.
So like learning how to code, learning how to cook,
learning new investment strategies, personal finance,
that's something they don't teach at school.
That's something they don't teach at uni.
So what is life like after uni?
If you are someone who has graduated without a job,
you don't really know exactly what role you wanna work in
or the industry you wanna work in,
I'm not gonna lie, it's a bit tough, but at the same time,
if you can, relax, take your time with it, speak to people,
network, like don't just jump into something,
like think about it, think strategically about it.
If you're still at uni and you don't know what job
you wanna work in when you graduate from uni,
at least do this.
Go to a CV workshop, go to a cover letter workshop
and get them to look at your CV and just make it as good as
possible as you can.
And if you still don't know and you're just not that
bothered about getting a job straight away, don't stress,
honestly, it's not the end of the world.
Just use your time productively.
Set up a business, do something in your free time, travel,
get experience, do a post grad, you know, do a master's,
do a PhD, like whatever floats your boat.
Just keep telling yourself these two things, right?
Everything happens for a reason.
So every single opportunity you get,
every single rejection you get, happens for a reason.
The second thing you should tell yourself is
it's a marathon, not a sprint.
It's a numbers game.
Just keep going, keep pumping applications, stay persistent
and always learn from rejection.
Just take me for an example.
If I had an offer from every
single company that I interviewed at,
I would still accept the offer that I have
at the moment for the company that I'm about to start at,
just because I think the opportunity there
is the best for me.
What I'm basically trying to say is it took
a lot of rejections to get to the point where I am now.
You know, it wasn't like I got really lucky
and I just interviewed there and I got it straight way,
like bro, months of applying to jobs,
months and months of applying to jobs.
So, if you're like six months deep in your job hunt
right now or you're like seven months deep.
Even if you were like 12 months deep, yah.
Don't give up because as soon as you give up,
right, you're just going to be in the position
for even longer.
You gotta keep going.
Keep learning, stay positive.
Like with all things in life.
Work ethic and drive is key.
I remember I'd wake up every day 5:00 AM,
I was at the gym for 5:00 a.m.
So I was waking up at 4:15, I was at the gym for 5:00 a.m.
I'm not working bro.
I'm like full time unemployed student right now, yeah.
Waking up 4:15, at the gym 5:00 a.m.
I do an hour workout, come home, shower, job applications
from like, I think it was at 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
I was just job applications.
Obviously, I'll do other things in my free time.
I'll watch some YouTube, do other things, but I was mainly
applying for jobs and just grinding.
You just got to put in the hours because
if you're not working, you're still working.
Like job hunting is a full time job in itself, right?
These video has probably been really long,
so if you're still watching it right now, honestly,
you know the deal, put it here.
Give me a spud.
Three, two, one, man look at my crusty ass hands.
It's cold in this room, bro.
The heating has gone off, I'm freezing out here.
Time to end the video.
Thumbs up if you're still here,
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You know the drill, follow me on social medias.
I'll see you next time, peace.
Whoa, Whoa, I'm rusty, bro.
I always do that, I always do that.
I almost did something else there.
Alright, peace.
I don't know what permanent damage might've been in my brain
because...
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