As a school or university student, flow of terms and holidays mean you have multiple opportunities a year to have greater control of your time.
Whether it’s the Easter holidays, summer holidays or any others – these moments provide great opportunities to build your employability skills – skills which ultimately result in you being an increasingly appealing candidate to future employers.
In fact, it’s worth going so far as to say that school and university holidays are prime, valuable time to build your employability and transferable skills (something that can be achieved in a variety of ways – including through hobbies).
In this episode of the Dive Into Your Career podcast, career coach and consultant Gina Visram encourages you to:
- Recognise the importance of rest (let’s start there!)
- AUDIT / self-reflect on where you are on your career development journey
- Make progress through (often free) ONLINE COURSES which could benefit your next steps (arguably – all online courses could but if you know you are interested in supporting a career in healthcare for example, you can do a healthcare-related short course)
- Sign up for and progress through ONLINE WORK EXPERIENCE TASTERS (through platforms such as Springpod, The Forage, Bright Network etc.)
- Update your CV
- Audit and progress your LinkedIn
- Have curious conversations
Do understand more about this and to hear some real-life examples which can inspire your action… check out this episode of the Dive Into Your Career podcast.